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    A sign marks one of the groomed ski trails on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Matt Bowser/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: I Think I Can Ski
    By MATT CONNER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • March 4, 2020 1:30 am

    Let us start with a riddle. There are 11 frogs sitting on a log. Five of the frogs decide to…

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    The Tour of Tsalteshi is best done with friends. (Photo courtesy of Kat Sorensen)
    Tangled Up in Blue: A good ski with...
    By KAT SORENSEN For the Clarion • February 26, 2020 1:30 am

    This past weekend I spent my Saturday night waxing skis. Sunday, I woke up before the crack of dawn, at…

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    Skiers take off at the start of this year’s Ski for Women on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020 at the Lookout Trails on Ohlson Mountain Road near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Wind couldn’t stop annual Ski for Women
    By Megan Pacer • February 5, 2020 5:30 am

    Skiers young and old braved some hefty winds on Sunday for the annual Ski for Women at the Lookout Trails…

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    White Sands National Monument in New Mexico could almost be mistaken for a snowy hillside. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
    Out of the Office: El Paso or bust
    By Victoria Petersen • February 5, 2020 1:30 am

    It was minus 22 when we left for the Anchorage airport earlier this month. It was a sunny, beautiful drive…

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    Photo by Mark Laker/USFWS                                 Mosaic of burned and unburned rocky tundra in the Mystery Hills off of the Skyline Trail on Sept. 12, 2019.
    Refuge Notebook: Wildfire in Kenai Mountains tundra
    By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 29, 2020 1:30 am

    Late last summer, as I waited in a line of traffic on the Sterling Highway to get through the Swan…

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    Photo by Kat Sorensen/For the Clarion                                 Bear Lake. Seward, Alaska.
    Tangled Up in Blue: A Bear Lake Loop
    By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion • January 29, 2020 1:30 am

    All summer long, you can find rowers, kayakers and more on Bear Lake just outside of Seward. Somewhere hidden on…

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    Inspiring Girls Expeditions is holding two tuition-free expeditions for 16- and 17-year-old girls in Alaska this summer. (Courtesy Photo | Joan Travers)
    Program introduces girls to science expeditions in wilderness
    By Michael S. Lockett • January 22, 2020 7:00 am

    Expeditions in Alaska will explore a glacier and the intertidal zone.

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    Photo by Jamie Lyons                                 A migrating dark-eyed junco in fall.
    Refuge notebook: Wintering sparrows find their way to...
    By TODD ESKELIN Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 22, 2020 1:30 am

    A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change highlighted some work by Dr. Kyle Horton and his colleagues,…

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    Tangled Up in Blue: Heart’s Invisible Furies
    Tangled Up in Blue: Heart’s Invisible Furies
    By KAT SORENSEN For the Clarion • January 15, 2020 1:30 am

    I came up with a handful of good, meaningful New Year’s resolutions but by Jan. 2, I had failed most…

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    Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge                                 Permanent and seasonal staff from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge who helped estimate the Kenai brown bear population in 2010.
    Refuge Notebook: Tales of a wildlife biologist
    By DR. JOHN MORTON Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 8, 2020 1:30 am

    In 1975, as a freshman in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, I was required to take a weekly…

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    Out of the Office: From Florida to Alaska — A wild 40 years
    Out of the Office: From Florida to Alaska...
    By Michael Armstrong • December 30, 2019 5:30 am

    Like true superheroes, every Alaskan has an origin story. The really cool origin story might involve being born a sixth-generation…

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    Refuge Notebook: The Refuge Notebook passes millennium milestone
    Refuge Notebook: The Refuge Notebook passes millennium milestone
    By JOHN MORTON Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 24, 2019 1:30 am

    “Welcome to Refuge Notebook. This is day one, page one of a new weekly column devoted to life and happenings…

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    A bridge stretches across a fork of Tonsina Creek along the Tonsina Creek Trail on Dec. 8, 2019 near Lowell Point, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Out of the Office: Best laid plans
    By Megan Pacer • December 18, 2019 5:30 am

    I’ve always been a planner.

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