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Refuge Notebook
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Kenai National Wildlife Refuge staff groom Marsh Lake Trail for snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.
Refuge Notebook: When life gives you lemons, make...
By SCOTT SLAVIK Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • March 17, 2021 2:30 am

The cross-country ski trails adjacent to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters and Visitor Center at the top of Ski…

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Photos courtesy of Mandy Lindeberg, NOAA, and Brenda Konar, University of Alaska Fairbanks 
Blood stars (top left) and leather stars (top right) were less impacted by the disease and are more likely to be seen today. Sunflower sea stars (bottom left), mottled sea stars (lower center, this one showing symptoms of disease) and ochre sea stars (lower right) used to be common, but were most affected by the disease and have become more rare.
Refuge Notebook: The fall of sea stars
By HEATHER COLETTI For the Clarion • March 10, 2021 2:30 am

Sea stars are a keystone species. As a top predator, they can restructure intertidal communities. For example, by feeding on…

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A young beaver enjoys a willow branch snack on a pond in the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area. (Photo by Colin Canterbury, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
Refuge Notebook: Leave it to beavers
By MARK LAKER For the Clarion • March 3, 2021 2:30 am

I was skiing along a lake in the canoe system on a clear, cold winter day, enjoying the crisp fresh…

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Salt marshes are important food sources for brown bears. As we see an earlier start to the growing season or increased plant growth, bears will likely benefit from them even more. (Photo by Michael Hannam/NPS)
Refuge Notebook: Could bears benefit from changing coastal...
By MIKE HANNAM and BUCK MANGIPANE Refuge Notebook • February 17, 2021 2:30 am

Flying over the Cook Inlet coast, you can look down and see expansive salt marshes where mountain rivers meet the…

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Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS 
A rare photograph of a shrew during winter. This shrew was observed above the snow where it had been sneaking out of the subnivean zone for short periods of time, possibly to exploit seeds or suet that had fallen on top of the snow beneath a bird feeder in Soldotna.
Refuge notebook: The hidden subnivean
By DOM WATTS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • February 3, 2021 2:30 am

Alaska summers are fast paced with people, wildlife and plants all in apparent frenzy trying to capitalize on warm temperatures…

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Predaceous flatworms hide under leaves by day in a spring near Soldotna Airport on Dec. 21, 2017. At night they hunt for other invertebrates. (Photo by Matt Bowser/USFWS)
Refuge Notebook: Life in Kenai Peninsula freshwater springs
By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 27, 2021 2:30 am

I like winter. I really do. The cold and the dark don’t wear on me too much as long as…

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Photo by Katrina Liebich/USFWS 
A fish friendly culvert in Alaska.
Refuge Notebook: What’s your number? Mine is 5
By KYLE GRAHAM Refuge Notebook • January 20, 2021 2:30 am

Have you ever considered how many salmon streams you cross on your daily drive to work, school or another location…

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Photo by Matt Bowser/USFWS 
Biological intern Annaleese Rasanen surveys severely burned alpine shrub tundra within the Swan Lake Fire burn July 27, 2020.
Refuge Notebook: A refuge manager’s perspective on 2020
By ANDY LORANGER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • January 13, 2021 2:30 am

A friend and colleague recently sent me a list of “things to consider” as 2020 drew to a close (all…

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A Northern Hawk Owl clutching a red-backed vole near Watson Lake between Sterling and Cooper Landing, Alaska on Nov. 30, 2020. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS)
Northern Hawk Owls frequent Swan Lake Fire burn
By COLIN CANTERBURY Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 23, 2020 2:30 am

In a gliding dive it swooped down from atop an aspen and disappeared, plunging into the fresh snow behind a…

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Wyatt, at age 4, helping dad harvest crawfish at White River NWR in Arkansas. (Photo by Matt Conner/USFWS)
Refuge Notebook: Crawfish to Christmas trees
By MATT CONNER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 16, 2020 2:30 am

My rubber knee boots provided little traction as I slowly slid down the mucky side of the bank toward the…

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Silver salmon swim in Sucker Creek on Sept. 18, 2020. Surface streams on the Kenai Peninsula and fish in them have far less arsenic in them than in some well water in the area. (Photo by Matt Bowser/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
Refuge Notebook: Arsenic in murder and nature
By MATT BOWSER Kenai National Wildlife Refuge • December 9, 2020 2:30 am

Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the Earth’s crust,…

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Photo by J. Pfeiffenberger/NPS 
Visitors enjoy bear viewing in the saltmarsh at Chinitna Bay, Lake Clark National Park.
Refuge Notebook: Visitors to Katmai and Lake Clark...
By MEGAN RICHOTTE and TIM SHEPHERD For the Clarion • December 2, 2020 2:30 am

Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula, offer…

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A snowshoe hare in its white winter coat. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
Refuge Notebook: The verge of winter
By JAKE DANNER Peninsula Clarion • November 24, 2020 2:30 am

As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing waters of…

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