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    Refuge Notebook
    Basic Incident Command System organization chart. The ICS system has been used for many different types of incidents since its inception. (Chart from Federal Emergency Management Agency)
    Refuge Notebook: Incident Command System adapts to record-setting...
    By Jeff Helminiak • November 18, 2020 2:30 am

    The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s largest wildfire…

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    The view looking north toward the pass from just above Juneau Lake. (Photo by Jack Carroll/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
    Refuge Notebook: Finding refuge in the forest
    By JACK CARROLL Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • November 12, 2020 2:30 am

    As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time on the…

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    Eivin Kilcher with his children and their flotsam treasures on Ushagat Island in August 2020. (Photo by Eve Kilcher)
    Refuge Notebook: Flotsam ‘treasure’ harbors wealth of wildlife...
    By LAUREN FLYNN Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge • November 4, 2020 2:30 am

    This August, Eivin Kilcher was beachcombing on Ushagat Island when he saw something unusual.

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    Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge 
Kasey Renfro and Seth Payment show off their tier rock wall on Skyline Trail.
    Refuge Notebook: Skyline gets much-needed upgrades after the...
    By CHRISTA KENNEDY Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • October 28, 2020 2:30 am

    Skyline Trail was the top priority for getting trail work done and getting the trail reopened for the public to…

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    A long, white strip of soft, white feathers running down the back gives the downy woodpecker its name. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS.
    Refuge Notebook: The smallest woodpecker
    By DOM WATTS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • October 21, 2020 2:30 am

    On a recent sortie looking for grouse in the spruce forest of the northern Kenai Peninsula, I heard what sounded…

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    Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife RefugeAndrew Berg outside his ҈omesteadӠcabin, which stood originally on Tustumena Lake and now stands at the headquarters of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
    Refuge Notebook: If these walls could talk
    By JACK CARROLL Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • October 14, 2020 2:30 am

    Big game guide Berg led remarkable life

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    Provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge                                 Snowshoe hare pellet counts.
    Refuge Notebook: Snowshoe hare population is on rise
    By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • September 23, 2020 1:30 am

    Hare cycle is key to boreal forest

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    Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge                                 A promo screen for the app “Agents of Discovery.”
    Refuge Notebook: Become a secret agent at refuge...
    By MJ HENDREN Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • September 16, 2020 1:30 am

    I arrived in Alaska in February, when it was still dark, cold and snow-covered. As a Floridian, I knew this…

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    Refuge Notebook: Kenai birches came from Asia
    Refuge Notebook: Kenai birches came from Asia
    By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • September 9, 2020 1:30 am

    Evidence still needed to show what Kenai birch conclusively is

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    Refuge Notebook: Mosquito serves as unofficial Alaska state bird
    Refuge Notebook: Mosquito serves as unofficial Alaska state...
    By JAKE DANNER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • September 2, 2020 1:30 am

    Insect makes life in backcountry tough

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    Photo by Bretwood Higman                                 Deep fissures cross the summit of Alpine Ridge above Grewingk Lake.
    Refuge Notebook: Landslides awakening in our glaciated mountains
    By DR. BRETWOOD HIGMAN Ground Truth Alaska • August 26, 2020 1:30 am

    ‘Across Alaska, climate change is driving retreating glaciers’

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    Refuge Notebook: Migrations of the Kenai Lowland caribou
    Refuge Notebook: Migrations of the Kenai Lowland caribou
    By AMANDA ZUELKE Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • August 12, 2020 1:30 am

    Being a seasonal biology technician has its perks. Every summer is a new adventure full of incredible fieldwork, new friends…

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    Refuge Notebook: What happened when the ocean warmed
    Refuge Notebook: What happened when the ocean warmed
    By HEATHER COLETTI National Park Service • August 5, 2020 1:30 am

    The 2014 to 2016 marine heatwave, or “the blob,” in the Gulf of Alaska was connected to one of the…

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