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    My makeshift Christmas tree only had a few ornaments this year, but brought a lot of joy. (Photo by Kat Sorensen)
    Tangled Up in Blue: Happy Holidays
    By KAT SORENSEN For the Clarion • December 30, 2020 2:30 am

    I just wrapped up celebrating Christmas 2020, a holiday marked by familial Zoom calls, small gatherings and a global pandemic….

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    The author looks across Eklutna Lake on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020 near Eagle River, Alaska. (Photo by Tim Rockey)
    Out of the Office: Good riddance
    By Megan Pacer • December 30, 2020 2:30 am

    When I first saw my turn in the rotating schedule for writing this column would fall on New Year’s Eve,…

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    Anglers fish for steelhead in the Anchor River by the Anchor River Bridge on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    State seeks proposals for local campground management
    By Megan Pacer • December 23, 2020 2:30 am

    State Parks extends deadline for bids to provide boat launch service at Deep Creek, Anchor River

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    A Northern Hawk Owl clutching a red-backed vole near Watson Lake between Sterling and Cooper Landing, Alaska on Nov. 30, 2020. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS)
    Northern Hawk Owls frequent Swan Lake Fire burn
    By COLIN CANTERBURY Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 23, 2020 2:30 am

    In a gliding dive it swooped down from atop an aspen and disappeared, plunging into the fresh snow behind a…

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    Bottenintnin Lake, seen on Nov. 24, 2020 near Sterling, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    Out of the Office: More questions than answers
    By Jeff Helminiak • December 23, 2020 2:30 am

    The only place life makes sense anymore is the outdoors.

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    Wyatt, at age 4, helping dad harvest crawfish at White River NWR in Arkansas. (Photo by Matt Conner/USFWS)
    Refuge Notebook: Crawfish to Christmas trees
    By MATT CONNER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 16, 2020 2:30 am

    My rubber knee boots provided little traction as I slowly slid down the mucky side of the bank toward the…

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    Silver salmon swim in Sucker Creek on Sept. 18, 2020. Surface streams on the Kenai Peninsula and fish in them have far less arsenic in them than in some well water in the area. (Photo by Matt Bowser/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: Arsenic in murder and nature
    By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 9, 2020 2:30 am

    Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the Earth’s crust,…

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    Photo by J. Pfeiffenberger/NPS 
Visitors enjoy bear viewing in the saltmarsh at Chinitna Bay, Lake Clark National Park.
    Refuge Notebook: Visitors to Katmai and Lake Clark...
    By MEGAN RICHOTTE and TIM SHEPHERD For the Clarion • December 2, 2020 2:30 am

    Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula, offer…

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    A snowshoe hare in its white winter coat. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: The verge of winter
    By JAKE DANNER Peninsula Clarion • November 24, 2020 2:30 am

    As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing waters of…

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    Moose are seen eating on the shoulder of Kenai Spur Highway on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, outside of Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Out of the Office: Into the office
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 24, 2020 2:30 am

    An ode to Kenai Spur Highway

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    Basic Incident Command System organization chart. The ICS system has been used for many different types of incidents since its inception. (Chart from Federal Emergency Management Agency)
    Refuge Notebook: Incident Command System adapts to record-setting...
    By Jeff Helminiak • November 18, 2020 2:30 am

    The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s largest wildfire…

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    The view looking north toward the pass from just above Juneau Lake. (Photo by Jack Carroll/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: Finding refuge in the forest
    By JACK CARROLL Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • November 12, 2020 2:30 am

    As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time on the…

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    A group of veterans who participated in the 23rd Veteran trip to Homer, Alaska, pose at the Kilcher Family Homestead near Homer, Alaska, on the last day of the trip on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. At far right, front, is Stellavera Kilcher, and third from right is Catkin Kilcher Burton, two of the Kilcher family members who participated in the visit. (Photo courtesy of 23rd Veteran)
    Minnesota veterans find healing on Kilcher homestead
    By Michael Armstrong • November 4, 2020 2:30 am

    Retreat fulfills family dream of Kilcher homestead as transformative center

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