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Refuge Notebook: Completion of the Sterling Highway Improvements Project
As anyone visiting the Skilak Lake Wildlife Recreation Area or traveling between the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage knows,…
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Refuge Notebook: Refuge K9 officer receives new name
Who has ever poured over a list of possible baby names, highlighting favorites and writing them down for…
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Refuge Notebook: Wildfire in Kenai Mountains tundra
Late last summer, as I waited in a line of traffic on the Sterling Highway to get through…
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Refuge notebook: Wintering sparrows find their way to Kenai
A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change highlighted some work by Dr. Kyle Horton and…
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Refuge Notebook: Exploring agriculture of the Kenai, 1897-1898
On June 8, 1897, Dr. Walter H. Evans of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Benton Killin, a…
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Refuge Notebook: Tales of a wildlife biologist
In 1975, as a freshman in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, I was required to take…
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Refuge Notebook: Stories of refuge’s past and present
It is the time of year for reflection, where we look back at the year and express gratitude…
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Refuge Notebook: The Refuge Notebook passes millennium milestone
“Welcome to Refuge Notebook. This is day one, page one of a new weekly column devoted to life…
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Refuge notebook: Squirrels are incredible
I recently took a family vacation to my home state of Minnesota to visit family and friends. We…
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Refuge Notebook: The Future of the Bobolink
June 23, 2019 started as almost every other day this summer. Hot, dry weather dominated from Hope to…
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Refuge notebook: Kenai refuge cabins are again open for business
As a relatively new parent, my appreciation of the proverb that begins with, “It takes a village,” seems…
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Refuge notebook: No silly questions
“Why don’t bats get dizzy from hanging upside down?” A second grade student at Tustumena Elementary School posed…
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Refuge notebook: Healthy peatlands store carbon and help salmon
After this last summer’s lightning, fires and long drought, it should be obvious that our local climate is…
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Refuge notebook: New fall colors include hummingbirds
In a day and age where social media seems to dominate and not always for the best reasons,…
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Refuge notebook: More elodea found on Kenai refuge
When we first found elodea on the Kenai Peninsula seven years ago, partners in the Kenai Peninsula Cooperative…
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Refuge notebook: Taking the wild out of wildlife
I find this a little depressing. A 2018 study published by the National Academy of Sciences estimates that…
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Refuge notebook: The porcupine — an underappreciated creature
Sauntering my way, the animal halted and gazed in my direction. It appeared uncertain about my status. Was…
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Refuge Notebook: The Swan Lake Fire and wildlife
This summer brought one of the hottest and driest summers ever recorded on the Kenai. Large areas dominated…
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Refuge notebook: Why are the birch trees brown?
I was working out Swan Lake Road last month when I noticed that entire stands of birch trees…
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Refuge notebook: Storks in Poland are example of cultural wildlife conservation
This last month I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Poland with my family. The trip was…