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Refuge Notebook: Crawfish to Christmas trees
My rubber knee boots provided little traction as I slowly slid down the mucky side of the bank…
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Refuge Notebook: Arsenic in murder and nature
Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the…
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Refuge Notebook: Visitors to Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks rely on Kenai Peninsula services
Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai…
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Refuge Notebook: The verge of winter
As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing…
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Refuge Notebook: Incident Command System adapts to record-setting wildfires
The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s…
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Refuge Notebook: Finding refuge in the forest
As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time…
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Refuge Notebook: Flotsam ‘treasure’ harbors wealth of wildlife knowledge
This August, Eivin Kilcher was beachcombing on Ushagat Island when he saw something unusual.
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Refuge Notebook: Skyline gets much-needed upgrades after the fire
Skyline Trail was the top priority for getting trail work done and getting the trail reopened for the…
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Refuge Notebook: The smallest woodpecker
On a recent sortie looking for grouse in the spruce forest of the northern Kenai Peninsula, I heard…
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Refuge Notebook: Become a secret agent at refuge headquarters
App allows for outdoor discovery
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Refuge Notebook: Kenai birches came from Asia
Evidence still needed to show what Kenai birch conclusively is
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Refuge Notebook: Mosquito serves as unofficial Alaska state bird
Insect makes life in backcountry tough
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Refuge Notebook: Landslides awakening in our glaciated mountains
In 2015, a slope above Taan Fiord — an arm of Icy Bay not too far from Yakutat…
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Refuge Notebook: Migrations of the Kenai Lowland caribou
Being a seasonal biology technician has its perks. Every summer is a new adventure full of incredible fieldwork,…
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Refuge Notebook: What happened when the ocean warmed
The 2014 to 2016 marine heatwave, or “the blob,” in the Gulf of Alaska was connected to one…
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Refuge Notebook: Are you Firewise?
As a young Idaho firefighter, enthusiasm and an eagerness to get dropped off on a remote mountain hillside…
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Refuge Notebook: Battered sallow moth caterpillars come and go
In early June, I received multiple accounts of abundant black caterpillars stripping trees and shrubs of foliage around…