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    Refuge Notebook
    Photo by Ronan Dugan/USFWS                                 Kittiwakes build their sturdy nests on cliff sides, and they prefer to live in crowded neighborhoods for additional safety from predators.
    Refuge Notebook: Keeping an eye on birds
    By MARIANNE APLIN Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge • April 8, 2020 1:30 am

    Around this time of year I start to include a pair of binoculars in my checklist of essentials for heading…

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    Refuge Notebook: Migration is not canceled
    Refuge Notebook: Migration is not canceled
    By Marianne Aplin For the Homer News • April 1, 2020 5:30 am

    A friend told me recently that March is her favorite month. What? Not May when our birds of summer come…

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    Refuge Notebook: Introducing Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
    Refuge Notebook: Introducing Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
    By Marianne Aplin For the Homer News • March 18, 2020 5:30 am

    We’ve probably already met, but you didn’t realize it. We’re the other national wildlife refuge headquartered on the Kenai Peninsula….

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    A sign marks one of the groomed ski trails on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Matt Bowser/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: I Think I Can Ski
    By MATT CONNER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • March 4, 2020 1:30 am

    Let us start with a riddle. There are 11 frogs sitting on a log. Five of the frogs decide to…

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    Photo by Mark Laker/USFWS                                 Mosaic of burned and unburned rocky tundra in the Mystery Hills off of the Skyline Trail on Sept. 12, 2019.
    Refuge Notebook: Wildfire in Kenai Mountains tundra
    By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 29, 2020 1:30 am

    Late last summer, as I waited in a line of traffic on the Sterling Highway to get through the Swan…

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    Photo by Jamie Lyons                                 A migrating dark-eyed junco in fall.
    Refuge notebook: Wintering sparrows find their way to...
    By TODD ESKELIN Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 22, 2020 1:30 am

    A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change highlighted some work by Dr. Kyle Horton and his colleagues,…

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    Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge                                 Permanent and seasonal staff from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge who helped estimate the Kenai brown bear population in 2010.
    Refuge Notebook: Tales of a wildlife biologist
    By DR. JOHN MORTON Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 8, 2020 1:30 am

    In 1975, as a freshman in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, I was required to take a weekly…

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    Refuge Notebook: The Refuge Notebook passes millennium milestone
    Refuge Notebook: The Refuge Notebook passes millennium milestone
    By JOHN MORTON Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 24, 2019 1:30 am

    “Welcome to Refuge Notebook. This is day one, page one of a new weekly column devoted to life and happenings…

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