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Refuge Notebook: This land is your land, this land is my land
Bucket list! Once-in-a-lifetime! Saved up for years! Not enough time to see it all! Dream destination! I hear…
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Tales of a Federal Wildlife Officer: Brown bears at Russian River
The opening of this year’s sockeye fishery at the Kenai/Russian River confluence brought reports of two yearling brown…
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Refuge Notebook: Kenai fuel break will extend protection of communities
It’s no secret that wildfires play a significant ecological role in Alaska’s boreal forests, including those here on…
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Refuge notebook: Visiting remote refuge wilderness from a classroom desk
As the education specialist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, it is my job to bring the…
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Refuge Notebook: Aleutian Islands oddities can win bets
Want to win a beer bet? Ask someone the location of the most southerly point in Alaska. The…
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Refuge Notebook: The roles of morels
While people have been taking advantage of the abundance of morels following last year’s Swan Lake Fire, I…
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Refuge Notebook: Spruce beetles 2020
Spruce beetles are at it again. I am sad to see large trees in Soldotna with patches of…
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Refuge Notebook: One person’s trash is another’s artifact
Archaeology. OK, what was the first thing that came to your mind when you read that word? I…
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Refuge Notebook: Learning to love the ‘sweat and shiver’ diet
Have you ever spent a weekend camping, maybe a long weekend, when the rain never seemed to quit?…
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Refuge Notebook: Forest morels: Year after fire brings rewards
2019 will be synonymous with wildland fire for most of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula, and as…
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Refuge Notebook: Recreational safety after the Swan Lake Fire
Residents of the Kenai Peninsula are all too familiar with wildfire after the summer of 2019. Not only…
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Swan Lake Fire trails update
Last fall the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge was forced to close eight trails due to Swan Lake Fire…
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Refuge Notebook: A helicopter’s role in wildland firefighting
A HECM, or helicopter crewmember, performs an essential role in ensuring the safety and success of aviation operations…
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Refuge Notebook: Keeping an eye on birds
Around this time of year I start to include a pair of binoculars in my checklist of essentials…
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Refuge Notebook: Migration is not canceled
A friend told me recently that March is her favorite month. What? Not May, when our birds of…
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Refuge Notebook: Introducing Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
We’ve probably already met, but you didn’t realize it. We’re the other national wildlife refuge headquartered on the…
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Refuge Notebook: Birds of the World resource wows
Recently a friend asked me for information about spruce grouse. I am sure he saw the slight look…
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Refuge Notebook: Metabarcoding in our backyard
I like low key, low tech, cheap science. That is part of why I became an entomologist. I…
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Refuge Notebook: I Think I Can Ski
Let us start with a riddle. There are 11 frogs sitting on a log. Five of the frogs…
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Refuge Notebook: Ice fishing the Swanson River Road area lakes
Winter is my favorite season here on the Kenai Peninsula. Everything is slower, quieter. You can just sense…