One of the benefits of growing old is waking up and, despite having done nothing particularly noteworthy the day before,…
A wet, sopping blanket of snow covered Seward this morning. Before sunrise, I could see the wisps of white pass…
This past summer, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge saw the benefit from four additional trail crews provided by the Student…
We don’t really have “seasons” where I’m from. It stays an amicable 75 degrees and sunny pretty much all year,…
Driving home the other day, my friend and I came across a big bull caribou chasing several cows down Kalifornsky…
There is just the smallest sliver of light pink nail polish left on my two big toes. Each time I’ve…
I was pretty spoiled as a kid.
In 2019, I became a biology intern at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge for the first time! Here I was…
I ran my third Kenai River Half Marathon this weekend.
My first job as a field biologist in Alaska was working for the Tongass National Forest. I was stationed in…
By HEIDI HELLING
I recently learned that the opposite of deja vu is jamais vu, meaning “never seen.”
As I contemplated a topic for this week’s Refuge Notebook article, I turned to a few of my trusted colleagues,…
