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Refuge Notebook: Arsenic in murder and nature
Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the…
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Refuge Notebook: Visitors to Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks rely on Kenai Peninsula services
Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai…
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Refuge Notebook: The verge of winter
As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing…
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Refuge Notebook: Incident Command System adapts to record-setting wildfires
The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s…
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Refuge Notebook: Finding refuge in the forest
As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time…
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Refuge Notebook: Flotsam ‘treasure’ harbors wealth of wildlife knowledge
This August, Eivin Kilcher was beachcombing on Ushagat Island when he saw something unusual.
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Refuge Notebook: Skyline gets much-needed upgrades after the fire
Skyline Trail was the top priority for getting trail work done and getting the trail reopened for the…
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Refuge Notebook: The smallest woodpecker
On a recent sortie looking for grouse in the spruce forest of the northern Kenai Peninsula, I heard…
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Refuge Notebook: Become a secret agent at refuge headquarters
I arrived in Alaska in February, when it was still dark, cold and snow-covered. As a Floridian, I…
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Refuge Notebook: Kenai birches came from Asia
Evidence still needed to show what Kenai birch conclusively is
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Refuge Notebook: Mosquito serves as unofficial Alaska state bird
Insect makes life in backcountry tough