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Refuge Notebook: Forest morels: Year after fire brings rewards
2019 will be synonymous with wildland fire for most of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula, and as…
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Refuge Notebook: Recreational safety after the Swan Lake Fire
Residents of the Kenai Peninsula are all too familiar with wildfire after the summer of 2019. Not only…
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Refuge Notebook: Swan Lake Fire trails update
Last fall the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge was forced to close eight trails due to Swan Lake Fire…
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Refuge Notebook: Keeping an eye on birds
Around this time of year I start to include a pair of binoculars in my checklist of essentials…
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Refuge Notebook: Migration is not canceled
A friend told me recently that March is her favorite month. What? Not May when our birds of…
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Refuge Notebook: Introducing Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
We’ve probably already met, but you didn’t realize it. We’re the other national wildlife refuge headquartered on the…
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Refuge Notebook: I Think I Can Ski
Let us start with a riddle. There are 11 frogs sitting on a log. Five of the frogs…
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Refuge Notebook: Wildfire in Kenai Mountains tundra
Late last summer, as I waited in a line of traffic on the Sterling Highway to get through…
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Refuge notebook: Wintering sparrows find their way to Kenai
A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change highlighted some work by Dr. Kyle Horton and…
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Refuge Notebook: Tales of a wildlife biologist
In 1975, as a freshman in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, I was required to take…
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Refuge Notebook: The Refuge Notebook passes millennium milestone
“Welcome to Refuge Notebook. This is day one, page one of a new weekly column devoted to life…