I was skiing along a lake in the canoe system on a clear, cold winter day, enjoying the crisp fresh…
Flying over the Cook Inlet coast, you can look down and see expansive salt marshes where mountain rivers meet the…
Alaska summers are fast paced with people, wildlife and plants all in apparent frenzy trying to capitalize on warm temperatures…
I like winter. I really do. The cold and the dark don’t wear on me too much as long as…
Have you ever considered how many salmon streams you cross on your daily drive to work, school or another location…
A friend and colleague recently sent me a list of “things to consider” as 2020 drew to a close (all…
In a gliding dive it swooped down from atop an aspen and disappeared, plunging into the fresh snow behind a…
My rubber knee boots provided little traction as I slowly slid down the mucky side of the bank toward the…
Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the Earth’s crust,…
Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula, offer…
As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing waters of…
The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s largest wildfire…
As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time on the…
