As a young Idaho firefighter, enthusiasm and an eagerness to get dropped off on a remote mountain hillside to “slay…
In early June, I received multiple accounts of abundant black caterpillars stripping trees and shrubs of foliage around the Marsh…
Bucket list! Once-in-a-lifetime! Saved up for years! Not enough time to see it all! Dream destination! I hear these exclamations…
Rain pounded against the windshield, encouraging a creeping melancholy as I drove myself and a volunteer north on the Sterling…
The opening of this year’s sockeye fishery at the Kenai/Russian River confluence brought reports of two yearling brown bear cubs…
It’s no secret that wildfires play a significant ecological role in Alaska’s boreal forests, including those here on the western…
As the education specialist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, it is my job to bring the wonders of…
Want to win a beer bet? Ask someone the location of the most southerly point in Alaska. The answer isn’t…
Archaeology. OK, what was the first thing that came to your mind when you read that word? I hope it…
Have you ever spent a weekend camping, maybe a long weekend, when the rain never seemed to quit? Where on…
2019 will be synonymous with wildland fire for most of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula, and as the details…
Residents of the Kenai Peninsula are all too familiar with wildfire after the summer of 2019. Not only did the…
Last fall the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge was forced to close eight trails due to Swan Lake Fire activity. Through…
