Sports
Refuge Notebook: Lots to spot this spring on Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Fluffs of shiny black fur, russet red velvety noses, bright yellow mouths open wide.
Sports
Refuge Notebook: Adaptation as consistency?
This year has been one for the books. Many of us had to change and adapt the way…
Sports
Refuge Notebook: Summer hummers
Recently, I was in Seward attempting to catch and band the first rufous hummingbird of the year. We…
Sports
Out of the Office: The weekend
By the second week of March, I had pretty much forgotten about the dry cabin I’d booked for…
Life
‘Tongass Odyssey’ explores decades of research, politics and change
‘What we learned is that old growth forest is very important’
News
Soldotna lends support to Tsalteshi grant request
The trails association recently applied for a grant through the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
Sports
Refuge Notebook: The outlook for Pacific brant
After a multiweek weather delay, Biologist/Pilot Heather Wilson and I took off from Kenai just before noon, Jan.…
Sports
Tangled Up in Blue: Throwbacks
There’s still a box of fancy heels and short, summer dresses wasting away in my parents’ basement right…
Sports
Out of the Office: Up the Alcan
Five days and nearly 2,500 miles: That’s how long I traveled to get to Alaska.
Sports
Refuge Notebook: Meet our amazing Pacific brant
This is the first of a two-part series describing a charismatic but lesser known goose species, its past,…
Sports
10-year-old takes home $87,000 for top fish in Homer tourney
‘Quite a bit of that is going to go to college tuition,’ dad says of son’s earnings
Sports
Refuge Notebook: Read a book, spend time in nature with StoryWalk
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more…
Sports
Out of the Office: Living in Alaska is a lifetime in learning
From boots to parkas, there’s lots to figure out about surviving in the Last Frontier
Sports
Refuge Notebook: Update on non-native species in refuge
While some planned projects at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge were put on hold in summer 2020 due…
Sports
Tangled Up in Blue: Passing through
I started writing this column 17 miles into a three-day, 38-mile ski. We had just reached the pass…
Sports
Refuge Notebook: A new perspective on Kenai morels
Years ago, a co-worker shared with me a place where morels appeared at the bases of cottonwood trees.…
Sports
Refuge Notebook: Ice patch archaeology
Alaska’s mountains and glaciers are beautiful to observe, and many of us enjoy summertime hikes and backpacking among…
Sports
Out of the Office: For good, for now
“Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.” If that figure immediately transports you to the famous number from…