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Norwegian musher wins Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Norwegian musher Thomas Waerner easily won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska, one…
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Out of the Office: Back to basics
What makes a successful season of Nordic skiing? Is it the miles you put in? How fast you…
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Out of the Office: Dropping a line
In my ongoing quest to shake off my Florida roots and achieve the illustrious title of “Real Alaskan,”…
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Refuge Notebook: I Think I Can Ski
Let us start with a riddle. There are 11 frogs sitting on a log. Five of the frogs…
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Tangled Up in Blue: A good ski with friends
This past weekend I spent my Saturday night waxing skis. Sunday, I woke up before the crack of…
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Wind couldn’t stop annual Ski for Women
Skiers young and old braved some hefty winds on Sunday for the annual Ski for Women at the…
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Out of the Office: El Paso or bust
It was minus 22 when we left for the Anchorage airport earlier this month. It was a sunny,…
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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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Tangled Up in Blue: A Bear Lake Loop
All summer long, you can find rowers, kayakers and more on Bear Lake just outside of Seward. Somewhere…
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Program introduces girls to science expeditions in wilderness
Expeditions in Alaska will explore a glacier and the intertidal zone.
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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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Tangled Up in Blue: Heart’s Invisible Furies
I came up with a handful of good, meaningful New Year’s resolutions but by Jan. 2, I had…
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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…