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Photo courtesy Kaiti Grant/Alaska SeaLife Center A seal pup rescued from near Kenai beach is treated by the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program on May 9, 2024.

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SeaLife Center admits abandoned harbor seal pups

Both seals were found abandoned and malnourished, and both were born prematurely

Dale Chorman stands with his wife, Dianne. (Photo provided by Tom Kizzia)

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Long-time Homer resident, photographer dead after Sunday moose encounter

Troopers on Monday identified the victim as 70-year-old Dale Chorman

Flier for Bear Awareness and Electric Fencing Workshops. (Provided by Defenders of Wildlife)

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Local workshops to focus on managing bear attractants, electric fencing

Next week, the Defenders of Wildlife, in partnership with the Department of Fish and Game, will host a…

Teresa Becher watches as beluga whales swim up the Kenai River on Saturday, April 24, 2021. She and her volunteer team monitor belugas in the Cook Inlet. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Ship noise may impact endangered Cook Inlet belugas, study finds

Cook Inlet sees traffic and noise from commercial shipping, the international airport, military operations and oil and gas…

Photo courtesy Peter Sculli/Alaska SeaLife Center A newly rescued sea otter pup receives care from the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program in Seward on Oct. 31.

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SeaLife Center admits sea otter pup

It is the third sea otter pup to be rescued this year

A man fishes in the Kenai River on July 16, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Peninsula Clarion/file)

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Kenai River late-run kings designated a stock of management concern

The board-set optimal escapement goal for large late-run Kenai River king salmon has not been achieved in the…

Bear 32 Chunk stands in the waters of the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. The winner of a Wednesday matchup between Bear 806 Jr. and Bear 428 will meet Chunk in Fat Bear Week competition on Friday. (Photo courtesy Felicia Jimenez/National Park Service)

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Survival of the fattest

Paunchy ursine competitors go head-to-head in annual Fat Bear Week

A seal rescued earlier this summer by the Alaska SeaLife Center awaits release on the North Kenai Beach in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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2nd harbor seal release draws large crowds

The seals were Pierogi, Pringle and Belle de Fontenay

Attendees, staff and volunteers gather for a video conference with SeaWorld San Antonio, where a Cook Inlet beluga named Tyonek was successfully rehabilitated and still lives, during a festival held as part of Belugas Count! at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Belugas Count! celebrated in Kenai

At a viewing station on Kenai’s bluff overlook, dozens gathered and peered out over the Kenai River during…

Alaska SeaLife Center veterinary technician Jessica Davis carries a newborn otter pup patient into the Alaska SeaLife Center Veterinary clinic for an initial admit exam on Sept. 9, 2023. The otter pup was admitted to the ASLC Wildlife Response Program after witnesses watched orcas attack the pup’s mother. (Photo courtesy Peter Sculli/Alaska SeaLife Center)

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Newborn sea otter rescued after orca attack

The animal still had a fresh umbilical cord, suggesting she was only a day, “possibly even hours,” old

Peninsula Clarion file Alaska Wildlife Alliance member Grace Kautek looks out over the Kenai River for signs of belugas during the third annual Belugas Count! event at Erik Hansen Scout Park in Kenai on Sept. 21, 2019.

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Cook Inlet belugas the center of returning educational celebration

Belugas Count! set for Sept. 23

A female northern sea otter rescued in Kenai on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, is seen at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Kaiti Grant/Alaska SeaLife Center)

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Sea otter pup rescued in Kenai

The pup is the latest in an extensive roster of animals rescued this summer

Madison Kosma watches as beluga whales swim up the Kenai River at Cunningham Park on Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Local ‘community scientists’ monitor endangered beluga population

Alaska Beluga Monitoring Program trains volunteers to collect information about the Cook Inlet beluga population