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Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Subsistence board:  no kings for Kenai gillnet fishery
Subsistence board: no kings for Kenai gillnet fishery
By DJ Summers • July 9, 2015 9:52 am

The upcoming subsistence gillnet fishery on the Kenai River can target sockeye, but kings are off limits.  An emergency Special…

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Card Street Fire advances
Card Street Fire advances
By Kelly Sullivan • June 18, 2015 9:50 am

Firefighters continued to battle the human-caused Card Street fire in Sterling, estimated to be at 2,000 acres, Tuesday evening. Crews…

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A display at the new Kenai Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center shows the Kenai Peninsula’s anadromous streams in red lights and the borders of the Kenai Wildlife Refuge in green. The new visitor center opened Friday in Soldotna.-Ben Boettger, Morris News Service - Alaska
Kenai refuge’s new visitor center opens
By Ben Boettger • May 6, 2015 3:28 pm

SOLDOTNA — Kenai National Wildlife Refuge staff said that their new visitor center, which began construction in 2013 and opened…

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Brown bear harvest cap lowered by BOG
Brown bear harvest cap lowered by BOG
By Rashah McChesney • March 18, 2015 4:44 pm

The Alaska Board of Game voted to give Kenai Peninsula brown bears a bit more protection by lowering the cap…

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Young salmon, such as this silver (coho) shown above, winter in the Anchor River. ADFG biologists borrowed the fish, along with other salmon and sticklebacks, to show to about a dozen people during a field trip to Anchor River conservation sites on March 5. The fish was returned unharmed to the channel where it was caught.-Photos by Shana Loshbaugh
Variety of groups join forces to preserve the...
By Shana Loshbaugh • March 18, 2015 4:42 pm

At first glance, the Anchor River seems remote and wild. After all, Anchor Point is small, even by Alaska standards,…

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Scientists, managers and public connect at Kachemak Bay Science Conference
Scientists, managers and public connect at Kachemak Bay...
By Shana Loshbaugh • March 11, 2015 4:23 pm

In an ideal world, science would enlighten us about how the things around us work, and managers would use that…

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Breeding Bird Survey conducted by listening to songs
Breeding Bird Survey conducted by listening to songs
By Bri Kilbourne • July 2, 2014 3:33 pm

I saw the moon for the first time this summer. Waking up at 2 a.m. brings a new perspective to…

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Central Emergency Services firefighter Spencer Mclean works to contain a portion of the nearly 183,000-acre Funny River Horse Trail wildfire near Soldotna’s Funny River neighborhood on Sunday.-Photo by  Rashah McChesney,  Morris News Service - Alaska
Rain helping Funny River firefighters
By Rashah McChesney • May 28, 2014 6:11 pm

After several days of fighting to keep the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire from burning homes in communities along the…

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A plane sprays foam over a portion of the 156,041 acre Funny River Horse Trail wildfire Sunday May 25, 2014 in the Funny River community of Soldotna, Alaska. Several hundred homes were evacuated after the fire flared briefly over a fire break set up about one-quarter mile south of the community.-Photo by Rashah McChesney/Morris News Service-Peninsula Clarion
Families in Funny River area evacuated
By KAYLEE OSOWSKI and RASHAH MCCHESNEY • May 26, 2014 11:26 am

With just a few minutes notice, families in Funny River were evacuated Sunday afternoon as firefighters fought to contain the…

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Open fires banned in state, federal parks
Open fires banned in state, federal parks
By Staff report • May 23, 2014 3:10 pm

In response to current extreme fire danger on the Kenai Peninsula, effective immediately and until further notice, all open fires…

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This map from the Alaska Interagency Incident Management Type 2 Team shows the current status of the Funny River Horse Trail Fire.-Map provided
Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres
By BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG AND MCKIBBEN JACKINSKY • May 23, 2014 1:43 pm

High, dry winds from the southwest could increase activity on the Funny River Horse Trail fire Friday afternoon. In a…

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Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres
Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres
By BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG AND MCKIBBEN JACKINSKY • May 23, 2014 1:21 pm

Smoke affects all of southcentral Alaska; Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres   High, dry winds from the…

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Smoke from the Funny River Horse Trail fire shoots more than 8,000 feet in the air Tuesday as the fire spread to consume nearly 7,000 acres of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge land in less than 24 hours. Dry, windy conditions have exacerbated the fire conditions spreading it into a line stretching more than 10 miles long and about 1 mile wide.-Photo by Rashah McChesney, Morris News Service - Alaska
Funny River fire grows, blankets Homer in smoke
By Michael Armstrong • May 21, 2014 6:04 pm

As the Funny River Horse Trail fire raged about 50 miles north of Homer, a long plume of smoke extending…

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