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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Memorial Day weekend brought sunny...
    By Nick Varney • June 1, 2022 5:30 am

    Look to Ninilchik River for best hatchery chinooks.

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    Fishermen young and old try their luck at the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon on June 4, 2020, on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing season begins in earnest
    By Nick Varney • May 25, 2022 5:30 am

    Weather forecast is sunny side up with good tides.

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    The bridge at Tonsina Point. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Out of the Office: Tackling Tonsina
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • April 20, 2022 2:30 am

    I’m reluctant to hike alone in Alaska. As much as I like being by myself and wandering in the woods,…

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    Some heart shaped rocks appear as bands of quartz. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Out of the Office: Finding heart rocks
    By Michael Armstrong • March 30, 2022 2:30 am

    Like love, heart rocks appear when you’re not looking for them.

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    Michael Armstrong, seated, in sled, gives his mother, Sylvia Jander, the unique Alaska experience of driving a sled-dog team in February 1989 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Jenny Stroyeck)
    Fill out the squares of the Alaska Adventure...
    By Michael Armstrong • January 19, 2022 2:30 am

    Moose, bears, sled dogs wolves, whales oh my: Alaska offers many adventures to check off.

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    Michael Armstrong and his dog Leia harvest a Christmas tree in December 2013 on his land on Diamond Ridge near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Jenny Stroyeck)
    If you don’t have your own tree lot,...
    By Michael Armstrong • December 1, 2021 2:30 am

    As I postholed through 3-foot deep snow in my Diamond Ridge driveway this Sunday, I thought back to 1979 and…

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    Courtesy photo/Cheryl Fellman
Cheryl Fellman enters the chilly waters of Auke Bay. Freeman is on the verge of becoming one of only 43 Americans — and 422 people worldwide — to swim an official Ice Mile.
    Juneau woman to attempt rare ice swimming feat
    By Dana Zigmund • November 3, 2021 2:30 am

    Brrrrrr!

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    The afternoon sun makes birch leaves glow yellow on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at the Hidden Lake Campground in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Sterling, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Fall in Alaska is subtle but fabulous
    By Michael Armstrong • September 23, 2021 2:30 am

    On my mother’s side I come from a long line of New Englanders, the kind of people for whom fall…

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    Elizabeth Graham, entomologist for the U.S. Forest Service, talks about the black-headed budworm outbreak in front of a spot on Mount McGinnis that shows the effects of defoliation. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)
    Find out more about the very hungry caterpillars...
    By Ben Hohenstatt • September 15, 2021 1:24 pm

    No need to bug out. They’re a natural part of the forest.

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: So long and thanks for...
    By Nick Varney • September 1, 2021 5:30 am

    I had heard rumors that there were still some jumpers accompanying the incoming tides at the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon,…

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Summer fishing is winding down
    By Nick Varney • August 25, 2021 5:30 am

    We have reached the section of the summer’s trail where it starts to wind down into the valleys of September,…

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Study techniques of the winner,...
    By Nick Varney • August 18, 2021 5:30 am

    I often get asked if it’s tough to write a fishing column while living in a community where more than…

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling ‘Em In: Know your fish and avoid...
    By Nick Varney • August 11, 2021 5:30 am

    Fish and game handbook has pictures to help identify species.

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