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Refuge Notebook: Are we winning the war on invasives?
Invasive plants are now well known as a threat to ecosystem integrity across the Kenai Peninsula. We’ve watched…
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An Outdoor View: This fishing thing
There must be something to this fishing thing, or we wouldn’t do the things we do to do…
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‘Get out and play’: Kenai Peninsula Outdoor Club continues to grow
The Kenai Peninsula Outdoor Club was once a small group of friends that enjoyed a shared interest in…
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Alaskan shares knowledge of cross-country skiing
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — More than four decades ago, Tim Buckley laced up a pair of old bunny boots,…
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Refuge Notebook – Thanksgiving: Remembering those who trusted, encouraged and inspired us
This Thanksgiving I recalled and was thankful that so many helped me on my way to become a…
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Refuge Notebook: Birders flock after ‘fowl’ weather events
It was like a scene out of the movie “The Big Year” starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and…
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Ski packages for the 1 percent – and for the rest
NEW YORK — Private ski lessons are so passe. The latest on-mountain perk for those with seemingly unlimited…
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Helmets have become commonplace on the slopes
BEND, Ore. — They come in nearly every color scheme imaginable, from camouflage to bright pink. Most skiers…
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Enjoy water fixtures all year by winterizing
For many people with backyard ponds, fountains and other water-garden fixtures, the arrival of cold weather means draining…
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Soldotna couple debuts new boardgame “Serfs & Soldiers”
There are three ways to win a new strategy game from Soldotna’s Shea and Donica Nash: hoard all…
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Refuge Notebook: Progress on eradicating elodea from the Kenai Peninsula
I am fascinated by how plants and animals are named. Elodea, the first submersed freshwater invasive plant to…
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An Outdoor View: Worms
Earlier this week, while mining the Internet for material to use in this column, I learned that earthworms…
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Fat bikes go where no bicycle has gone before
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The first thing people notice: The tires, wider than the forearms of most grown…
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Refuge Notebook: Elusive, inconspicuous brown creepers favor old growth forests
I have seen more brown creepers on the Kenai Peninsula this year than in the past two years…
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Cooking salmon
The salmon I cooked for dinner Tuesday night earned a thumbs up and a “Mmm-mmm!” from the in-house…
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Breast cancer survivors fly fish as therapy
SISTERS, Ore. — In her first year of recovering from breast cancer, Carol O’Bryant, of Bend, was plagued…
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Kenai Refuge has new Visitor Services Manager
The other day I was in the garage unpacking boxes from our recent move from Fergus Falls, Minnesota,…
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An Outdoor View: The old man was a meat fisherman
In the past 10 or 15 years years, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about my dad.…
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Semi-Southeast Adventure: Paddling the Nisutlin River
It’s fast becoming a fall tradition for my boyfriend Bjorn Dihle and me to head north and do…
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Andy Hall attempts to clear up Denali’s history
In Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak former editor of Alaska magazine Andy Hall’s…