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Les Palmer: 50 years in Alaska
Fishing and writing have taken me on trips to the wild places I imagined as a kid while…
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Nordic skiing off groomed trails evokes old days
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — It’s the skinny skier’s version of venturing off-piste at Mount Spokane’s Cross-Country Ski Park.…
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Diabetic snowboarder Sean Busby rides 7 continents
While a few of his former teammates were competing for gold, silver and bronze, Sean Busby was rounding…
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Les Palmer: Blown off again
My wife and I and another couple were all cranked up and ready to go king salmon fishing…
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Refuge Notebook: New Visitor Center Becoming Reality
Up from the icy ground adjacent to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters in Soldotna, a building has…
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Ice skating: an adventure in embarrassing the kids
SUNRIVER, Ore. (AP) — “What did you think about ice skating?” I asked my daughter Lucy. “Eh. It…
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Refuge Notebook: Kruger National Park, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge share common conservation issues
Before we moved to Alaska, my family and I lived two years in South Africa’s Kruger National Park…
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Pond hockey: ‘As pure as it gets’
CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — It was the kind of day where beards sprouted icicles, wearing wool socks was…
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Les Palmer: All about the black spruce
If you live on the Kenai Peninsula, you live either in or near black spruce, Picea mariana. This…
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Faster, safer avalanche rescue
Alaska Electric Light & Power Inc. has purchased a piece of equipment — a long-range receiver that mounts…
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Homer doctor, friends snowmachine to Nome
For the 22nd year, Paul Sayer, a Homer physician, is getting ready to take the same two-week, mid-winter…
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Refuge Notebook: A demonstration of age and beauty
On a frosty morning in February 1985, biologists from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge hunkered down in the…
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Perfect conditions for perfect climbing
UTICA, Ill. (AP) — Year-round tourist attraction Starved Rock State Park does not attract mountaineers every year. But…
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Refuge Notebook: Time to apply for summer jobs at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Are you interested in working at one of the premier wildlife refuges in the nation this summer? The…
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Homer Cycling Club’s Big Fat Bike Festival this weekend
The Homer Cycling Club’s Big Fat Bike Festival is today through Sunday. Events include beach bonfires, a group…
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Snow fun: Clunky bikes with fat tires catching on
MCCALL, Idaho (AP) — You’ve probably seen these in a bike shop, in a bike rack, or even…
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Sunk, but undefeated, NYC man faces Atlantic again
NEW YORK — A tenacious New Yorker who has been trying for nearly a decade to row solo…
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Refuge Notebook: Genetic diversity of wildlife on the Kenai Peninsula is a mixed bag
There are 1,786 plant and animal species known on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. That’s extraordinary biodiversity for…
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An Outdoor View: The first king
Like your first kiss, you never forget your first king salmon. I was born in 1937, and raised…
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Ski resorts turn to terrain-based teaching
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Allison Willette’s first few skiing lessons left her with a sore butt and aching…