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Summer season winding to close at Denali park
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE — Summer travel is winding down at Denali National Park and Preserve, ending…
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Refuge Notebook: Warm summers prepare for spruce bark beetle return
If you lived in the woods on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1990s, you may not want to…
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Teachers learn to make the outdoors their classroom
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Bonni Villaman and Deanna Wilson, both elementary school teachers, set the tone of the day…
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An Outdoor View: The money motive
Bill Santos, who lives in Taunton, Mass., called me earlier this week, and the talk soon turned to…
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Biking and hiking Kennecott’s abandoned mine
FAIRBANKS (AP) — Tires flung mud in our eyes and rain soaked every layer of clothing. The descent…
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Refuge Notebook: The Kenai Crusader – Tales of a Kenai refuge intern
People are screaming and sirens are wailing throughout the city. Children are lost, stumbling lone through the streets.…
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Fishing report: Fall anglers have sights on silvers, rainbows, steelhead
While anglers should be cautious with rising water on the Kenai River from the release of the Snow…
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For a different challenge, try chasing Kenai River rainbows
For weeks, rainbow trout fishing on the Kenai River has been hot. Clear, low water filled with the…
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The fishing how-to
The first fishing how-to in print was Izaak Walton’s “The Compleat Angler,” published in 1653, and writers have…
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Refuge Notebook: After the fire
There’s a saying in Alaska that when the fireweed stops blooming that the wildfire season is over. This…
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Pollinator Pockets: small plots with nectar-rich plants
It doesn’t take massive flowerbeds to make beneficial insects happy — just a few pollen- and nectar-rich plants…
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Fishing report: Enjoy the sunshine and the silvers
Normally, the Kenai Peninsula seems to go straight from summer into fall. This year, however, summer has been…
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Refuge Notebook: Bear Mountain Trail offers photo, berry-picking options
Is that expensive camera you bought last winter in hopes of becoming a professional photographer just sitting there…
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An Outdoor View: Zoo comes to Alaska
For centuries, mankind has been the dominant species. We domesticated animals, locked them up, killed them for sport.…
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Outdoors club celebrates centennial
WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — A 100-mile backpacking trip is a good start for sizing up a wilderness area…
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Clothe your soil: Cover crops help enrich it
Cover crops are plants that gardeners and farmers have, since the beginnings of agriculture, grown not to eat…
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Conserving the Kings
I can’t remember the last time I fished for Kenai River king salmon, but it was at least…
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Refuge Notebook: Local kids do big work
This year’s Youth Conservation Corps program has come to an end. Every summer a few lucky, randomly-chosen local…
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An Outdoor View: Why do we hunt?
Author’s note: This column first appeared in the Clarion on Aug. 14, 1987. I’ve edited it slightly for…
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Live small to live large: Vintage campers inspire bartender
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Sometimes, smaller is better. Just ask Deanna Wohlgemuth, who still lives with her children in…