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    Kenya Pace looks for beluga whales on March 3, 2021, along the Kenai River near Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Teresa Becher)
    Beluga whale monitoring efforts looking for winter sightings...
    By Teresa Becher For the Homer News • March 10, 2021 2:30 am

    About 10 beluga whales sighted south of Ninilchik

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    A young beaver enjoys a willow branch snack on a pond in the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area. (Photo by Colin Canterbury, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: Leave it to beavers
    By MARK LAKER For the Clarion • March 3, 2021 2:30 am

    I was skiing along a lake in the canoe system on a clear, cold winter day, enjoying the crisp fresh…

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    Out of the Office: Glacial musings
    By Megan Pacer • March 3, 2021 2:30 am

    After living in Alaska for a certain amount of time, one can start to feel like a regular, like one…

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    Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS 
A great gray owl perches in an aspen tree on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
    Refuge notebook: Winter is the season for finding...
    By DAWN ROBIN MAGNESS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • February 24, 2021 2:30 am

    Winter can be a fantastic time to observe owls. Owls can be very secretive, sitting quietly in trees with color…

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    Salt marshes are important food sources for brown bears. As we see an earlier start to the growing season or increased plant growth, bears will likely benefit from them even more. (Photo by Michael Hannam/NPS)
    Refuge Notebook: Could bears benefit from changing coastal...
    By MIKE HANNAM and BUCK MANGIPANE Refuge Notebook • February 17, 2021 2:30 am

    Flying over the Cook Inlet coast, you can look down and see expansive salt marshes where mountain rivers meet the…

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    A day on Kachemak Bay. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Out of the Office: Water taxi talking
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • February 17, 2021 2:30 am

    Reporters spend a lot of time talking to people: people they don’t know, people they do know, people who really…

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    Phil Basargin 5-year-old Maxim Basargin around the ice Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 during the Skate the Lake event on Beluga Lake in Homer, Alaska. The free skating event was hosted for the community by the Homer Hockey Association. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Homerites take to the lake in skate event
    By Megan Pacer • February 10, 2021 2:30 am

    Homer Hockey Association hosted Skate the Lake for the community

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    A red-breasted nuthatch looks over its shoulder between bites of suet in a hanging-cage style feeder. (Photo by Todd Eskelin/USFWS)
    Refuge Notebook: Social distancing is not just for...
    By TODD ESKELIN Peninsula Clarion • February 10, 2021 2:30 am

    Salmonella is a type of bacteria that hits our news feeds often. Infections in human foods cause illness across the…

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    Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS 
A rare photograph of a shrew during winter. This shrew was observed above the snow where it had been sneaking out of the subnivean zone for short periods of time, possibly to exploit seeds or suet that had fallen on top of the snow beneath a bird feeder in Soldotna.
    Refuge notebook: The hidden subnivean
    By DOM WATTS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • February 3, 2021 2:30 am

    Alaska summers are fast paced with people, wildlife and plants all in apparent frenzy trying to capitalize on warm temperatures…

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    Predaceous flatworms hide under leaves by day in a spring near Soldotna Airport on Dec. 21, 2017. At night they hunt for other invertebrates. (Photo by Matt Bowser/USFWS)
    Refuge Notebook: Life in Kenai Peninsula freshwater springs
    By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 27, 2021 2:30 am

    I like winter. I really do. The cold and the dark don’t wear on me too much as long as…

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    Photo by Katrina Liebich/USFWS 
A fish friendly culvert in Alaska.
    Refuge Notebook: What’s your number? Mine is 5
    By KYLE GRAHAM Refuge Notebook • January 20, 2021 2:30 am

    Have you ever considered how many salmon streams you cross on your daily drive to work, school or another location…

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    Fletcher runs through the snow on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021, on Diamond Ridge near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Out of the Office: How all the dogs...
    By Michael Armstrong • January 13, 2021 2:30 am

    I have written before about the virtues of big, rowdy dogs in developing an exercise plan. In my more than…

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    Photo by Matt Bowser/USFWS 
Biological intern Annaleese Rasanen surveys severely burned alpine shrub tundra within the Swan Lake Fire burn July 27, 2020.
    Refuge Notebook: A refuge manager’s perspective on 2020
    By ANDY LORANGER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 13, 2021 2:30 am

    A friend and colleague recently sent me a list of “things to consider” as 2020 drew to a close (all…

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