I just wrapped up celebrating Christmas 2020, a holiday marked by familial Zoom calls, small gatherings and a global pandemic….
When I first saw my turn in the rotating schedule for writing this column would fall on New Year’s Eve,…
State Parks extends deadline for bids to provide boat launch service at Deep Creek, Anchor River
In a gliding dive it swooped down from atop an aspen and disappeared, plunging into the fresh snow behind a…
The only place life makes sense anymore is the outdoors.
My rubber knee boots provided little traction as I slowly slid down the mucky side of the bank toward the…
Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the Earth’s crust,…
Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula, offer…
As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing waters of…
An ode to Kenai Spur Highway
The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s largest wildfire…
As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time on the…
Retreat fulfills family dream of Kilcher homestead as transformative center