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Refuge Notebook: Woodpecker doppelgangers
I was listening to the distinct sound of a woodpecker drumming a few days ago and caught a…
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Refuge Notebook: Forest regeneration efforts benefit moose on wildlife refuge
From time to time, we reshare past Refuge Notebook articles. We selected this article as part of our…
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Out of the Office: Best ski of the year
Memory is strongly tied to place. That’s why I can never take the ski from Arc Lake to…
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Out of the Office: Furry friend
Adventuring in Alaska has been much better with my fur buddy.
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Refuge Notebook: Names of living things have much to say
As we at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge seek to know about the living things that call this…
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Refuge Notebook: Blessed to live the Alaska dream
Note: In celebration of the Refuge’s 80th year, the Refuge Notebook articles will periodically feature stories from past…
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Out of Office: Chasing sunshine
The winter solstice fell on a beautiful Tuesday last month. I woke up to flickers of sunshine peeking…
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80 years of conservation and counting
Just a few weeks ago, on Dec. 16, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge turned 80.
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Refuge Notebook: A needle in a peatland haystack
Touching down, we could feel the widened skids sink, yet securely, on what was a soggy layer of…
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Tangled Up In Blue: We’ll meet again someday
Over the five years that I’ve written Tangled Up In Blue, a lot has happened that seems so…
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Out of the Office: Skiing doesn’t have to be perfect to be good
“One thing I definitely miss about Anchorage are the groomed cross country ski trails,” read the text.
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Out of the Office: Solace in skating
I’m used to the cold, but Alaska’s darkness has proved difficult to get used to.
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Refuge Notebook: Checking on the little things that fish need
This October, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game applied rotenone, a fish-killing pesticide, to Vogel Lake, North…