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    Outdoors and Recreation
    Example of a culvert blocked by natural materials on Port Graham Road. (Photo by Sarah Apsens/USFWS)
    Refuge Notebook: Connecting fish and community to resources...
    By Peninsula Clarion Contributor • February 21, 2024 2:30 am

    Streams that baby salmon live in provide shelter from predators, food and conditions for optimal growth

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    Clouds cover the beach at Lowell Point State Recreation Site on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, near Seward, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Alaska State Parks recruiting for local citizen advisory...
    By Jacob Dye • February 14, 2024 1:30 am

    Applications are due March 4

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    Orion Willis, a student of Soldotna Montessori, holds up a rainbow trout he caught during Salmon in the Classroom ice fishing at Sport Lake in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    ‘Fish on!’
    By Jacob Dye • February 7, 2024 1:30 am

    Students try ice fishing at ‘Salmon in the Classroom’ event

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    Snowshoers make fresh tracks on Headquarters Lake on a weekly guided walk at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Leah Eskelin/USFWS)
    Refuge Notebook: Snowshoeing fun in the refuge
    By Peninsula Clarion Contributor • January 24, 2024 2:30 am

    Having grown up in New England, I am no stranger to cold winters, lots of snow and season-specific outdoor recreational…

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    Photo by credit Scott Slavick/USFWS
A snowmachine at rest in front of the Snag Lake public use cabin.
    Refuge Notebook: Preparedness is key to staying safe...
    By Peninsula Clarion Contributor • January 10, 2024 2:30 am

    If you spend any time in the backcountry, it’s bound to happen: an ankle sprain halfway into a day hike;…

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    Clouds cover the beach at Lowell Point State Recreation Site on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023 near Seward, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Fee increases for State Park usage rescinded days...
    By Jacob Dye • January 4, 2024 1:30 am

    The existing fees will continue to be apply “as if they were never replaced”

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    The sun shines over Tern Lake on Sunday, May 22, 2022 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Tales of trails
    By Jacob Dye • December 20, 2023 1:30 am

    ‘Trail Mix Journal’ collects stories and experiences from local wilderness

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    A snowmachine rider takes advantage of two feet of fresh snow on a field down Murwood Avenue in Soldotna, Alaska on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Snowmachine use closed in parts of Chugach National...
    By Jacob Dye • December 20, 2023 1:30 am

    On the refuge, all areas “traditionally open to snowmachine use” are now open

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    Young samplings are better than a muffin to this moose on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS)
    Refuge Notebook: We stand on the shoulders of...
    By Peninsula Clarion Contributor • December 6, 2023 2:30 am

    This story starts 2,500 miles southeast as the raven flies from Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to the heart of the…

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    Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion
Spruce trees are dusted with snow on Dec. 22, 2020, in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Soldotna, Alaska. Some areas of the refuge are open to harvest of holiday trees for non-commercial uses beginning Thanksgiving.
    Christmas tree cutting on refuge opens Thanksgiving
    By Jacob Dye • November 29, 2023 1:30 am

    Tree cutting will be open until Christmas Day

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    Cook Inlet is seen from Clam Gulch State Recreation Area on Feb. 7, 2020, in Clam Gulch, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion file)
    Parking fees at state parks to go up...
    By Jacob Dye • November 21, 2023 1:30 am

    By Jake Dye

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A snowmachine rider takes advantage of two feet of fresh snow on a field in Soldotna in December 2022.
    Snowmachines now allowed in parts of Chugach National...
    By Jacob Dye • November 21, 2023 1:30 am

    Sections of both the Glacier and Seward ranger districts, in Turnagain Pass, Carter Lake, Resurrection Pass, Lost Lake and the north Johnson Pass trailhead are opened

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    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Technician Steve Hoekwater collects an eDNA water sample from Berg Lake on Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on June 7, 2023, as part of an effort to detect invasive northern pike (Esox lucius). Photo by Nathan Davis/USFWS
    Refuge Notebook: Deja vu and something new —...
    By Peninsula Clarion Contributor • November 15, 2023 2:30 am

    We had been here before.

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