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Refuge Notebook: Landslides awakening in our glaciated mountains
‘Across Alaska, climate change is driving retreating glaciers’
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Refuge Notebook: Migrations of the Kenai Lowland caribou
Being a seasonal biology technician has its perks. Every summer is a new adventure full of incredible fieldwork,…
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Refuge Notebook: What happened when the ocean warmed
The 2014 to 2016 marine heatwave, or “the blob,” in the Gulf of Alaska was connected to one…
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Refuge Notebook: Are you Firewise?
As a young Idaho firefighter, enthusiasm and an eagerness to get dropped off on a remote mountain hillside…
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Refuge Notebook: Battered sallow moth caterpillars come and go
In early June, I received multiple accounts of abundant black caterpillars stripping trees and shrubs of foliage around…
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Refuge Notebook: This land is your land, this land is my land
Bucket list! Once-in-a-lifetime! Saved up for years! Not enough time to see it all! Dream destination! I hear…
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Refuge Notebook: Rains, rocks and trail work on the Swanson River
Rain pounded against the windshield, encouraging a creeping melancholy as I drove myself and a volunteer north on…
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Refuge Notebook: Tales of a federal wildlife officer — Brown bears at Russian River
The opening of this year’s sockeye fishery at the Kenai/Russian River confluence brought reports of two yearling brown…
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Refuge Notebook: Kenai fuel break will extend protection of communities
It’s no secret that wildfires play a significant ecological role in Alaska’s boreal forests, including those here on…
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Refuge Notebook: Visiting remote refuge wilderness from a classroom desk
As the education specialist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, it is my job to bring the…
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Refuge Notebook: Aleutian Islands oddities can win bets
Want to win a beer bet? Ask someone the location of the most southerly point in Alaska. The…
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Refuge Notebook: One person’s trash is another’s artifact
Archaeology. OK, what was the first thing that came to your mind when you read that word? I…
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Refuge Notebook: Learning to love the ‘sweat and shiver’ diet
Have you ever spent a weekend camping, maybe a long weekend, when the rain never seemed to quit?…