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A pair of nearly pristine three-year-old workout shoes are placed in the backseat of Jake Dye’s mostly invincible car in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Feb. 8. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Out of the office: ‘Stupid walks’

After more than three weeks of regularly hitting the gym — easily the longest stretch of any kind…

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A bog lemming travels through a tube that mimics natural tunnels and captures remote videos and genetic samples to identify this species from its small mammal cousins.

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Refuge Notebook: Our little-known glacial relict

When I think about the Pleistocene, my mind naturally wanders to the large charismatic megafauna that dominated this…

Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation Kenai/Prince William Sound Superintendent Jack Blackwell fields questions about the Kasilof River Drift Boat Retrieval project at the Gilman River Center on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023 near Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Construction of Kasilof boat retrieval to begin this summer

Efforts to build a public takeout facility on the lower Kasilof River began in 2011

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Snowshoers talk with Ranger Leah Eskelin during a December snowshoe walk at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

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Refuge Notebook: Take it from the hare, snowshoes are the way to go!

The holidays are behind us, but there is still a whole lot of winter ahead. I love the…

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The glacial blue waters of the Kenai River ice up.

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Refuge Notebook: Changing winters bring new conservation challenges

The variability in our winters during the last decade here has made it difficult to discern trends

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R/V Sikuliaq research crew in the Gulf of Alaska in July 2022.

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From the Plankton to the Aurora

Northern Gulf of Alaska Summer Research Cruise: R/V Sikuliaq, July 7-27, 2022.

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Unhinged Alaska: The Weather Witch is sporting a ‘tude

I took the weather condition disparity as personal and figured it was payback for some blistering criticism I…

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The snowshoelike feet of the lynx makes it well suited for traveling over snow.

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Refuge Notebook: Snow — good or bad for wildlife? It depends

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and has been since the big storm that arrived a…

Karen Northrup signs folks in for opening day at Ohlson Mountain Rope Tow on Dec. 18, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Emilie Springer)

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Ohlson Mountain’s Rope Tow opens

The Ohlson Mountain Rope tow has been running at its current site since the 1970s.

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Jake Dye’s “Mostly Invincible” Toyota 4Runner sits outside the Peninsula Clarion offices in Kenai, Dec. 22, still indomitable.

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Out of the Office: Really cold

At a certain point below zero degrees, I’m not so sure I can tell the difference anymore. Anything…

Forests surrounding the Kenai River. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Expect the unexpected

Climate change is changing conservation. We used to set goals and objectives around returning to historical conditions, a…

Two roses washed up with the tide on the Homer Spit on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Finding grace on the beach

Last month while walking the Homer Spit beach I came across two red roses and a scattering of…

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Out of the Office: On Andrews’ legacy

Editor’s note: After reading of the death of John Andrews at 78 on Sept. 27, 2022, in the…