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Keksi Geurts, NOAA Hollings scholar, and Jasmine Maurer, harmful species program coordinator, with the Research Reserve in the Islands and Oceans discovery lab after their public presentations on European Green Crab on July 18, 2024, in Homer Alaska.
    Invasive crabs discussed ahead of awareness day
    By Emilie Springer • July 25, 2024 1:30 am

    A day ahead of European Green Crab Awareness Day, Jasmine Maurer with the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve on…

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    Girl Scout Troop 210, which includes Caitlyn Eskelin, Emma Hindman, Kadie Newkirk and Lyberty Stockman, present their “Bucket Trees” to a panel of judges in the 34th Annual Caring for the Kenai Competition at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Caring for the Kenai winners receive EPA award
    By Delcenia Cosman • June 20, 2024 1:30 am

    Winning team of the 34th annual Caring for the Kenai was selected for the President’s Environmental Youth Award

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    Girl Scout Troop 210, which includes Caitlyn Eskelin, Emma Hindman, Kadie Newkirk and Lyberty Stockman, present their “Bucket Trees” to a panel of judges in the 34th Annual Caring for the Kenai Competition at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Bucket trees take top award at 34th Caring...
    By Jacob Dye • April 25, 2024 1:30 am

    A solution to help campers safely and successfully extinguish their fires won top honors at the 34th Annual Caring for…

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    The Exxon Baton Rouge, smaller ship, attempts to off-load crude from the Exxon Valdez that ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez, Alaska, spilling over 270,000 barrels of crude oil, shown March 26, 1989. File photo. (AP Photo/Rob Stapleton)
    Memories from the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill:...
    By Emilie Springer • March 13, 2024 1:30 am

    As the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill approaches on March 24, retired fisheries biologist Loren Flagg told…

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    Microplastics prevalent in Kenai Peninsula waterways
    By Delcenia Cosman • February 7, 2024 1:30 am

    100% of all tested sites in southcentral Alaska contained microplastics, report says

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    Cook Inletkeeper Energy Policy Analyst Ben Boettger presents information about retrofitting homes to be more energy efficient at the Cook Inletkeeper Community Action Studio on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Inletkeeper turns focus to energy for next community...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 13, 2023 2:30 am

    The meeting marked the official kickoff of Cook Inletkeeper’s fourth installment in its local solution series

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    Advisory council on oil impacts meets in Homer
    Advisory council on oil impacts meets in Homer
    By Emilie Springer • October 4, 2023 1:30 am

    The council aims to be a citizen voice for those affected by Prince William Sound’s oil industry

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    Pink salmon swim up a drainage ditch at Beluga Slough on Sept. 6 at high tide. Emilie Springer/ Homer News
    Pink salmon return to Beluga Slough
    By Emilie Springer • September 13, 2023 1:30 am

    Alaska Department of Fish and Game will collect otolith samples for stock assessment

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    Photo provided by Ashley Lutto with the USFWS
A participant in the European Green Crab rapid response exercise practices a test sample at the beach by the Homer Spit Fishing Hole.
    Green crab invasion sparks local response
    By Emilie Springer • September 6, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer conference is part of statewide invasive species monitoring and managing efforts

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    The Sterling Highway cuts through areas of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge where burns from the Swan Lake can be seen, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Prescribed burns will produce visible smoke near highways
    By Jacob Dye • September 6, 2023 1:30 am

    The burns are part of ongoing spruce beetle mitigation efforts

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    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Senior Advisor for Conservation Boyd Bilhovde, Bureau of Land Management Alaska Director Steve Cohn, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang and Alaska State Parks Director Ricky Gease participate in a panel discussion at the Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s Kenai Classic Roundtable at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Officials talk fish in Soldotna
    By Jacob Dye • August 30, 2023 1:30 am

    Kenai Classic Roundtable topics include chinook, wind turbines, collaboration

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    Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion
Contestants race down the Kenai River during the 16th Annual Cooper Landing Drift Boat Regatta near the Eagle Landing Resort in Cooper Landing, May 20.
    State water monitoring project says Kenai River is...
    By Jacob Dye • July 19, 2023 1:30 am

    The project was developed in response to concerns about high concentrations of dissolved metals, specifically copper and zinc

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    Kiernan Lapp, of Soldotna High School, is introduced by Merrill Sikorski at the Caring for the Kenai Awards Celebration held during a Joint Chamber Luncheon on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Chambers honor Caring for the Kenai finalists
    By Jacob Dye • May 11, 2023 1:30 am

    The contest challenges peninsula students to devise ways to improve the environment or prepare for a natural disaster

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