Current weather

  • Clear sky
  • 66°
    Clear sky
More Weather

Refuge notebook: These are a few of my favorite things 

 05/16/13 - 6:42pm

If you spend any time with my family in the woods, you’ll find that we snack on berries, and mushrooms and other wild foods that are opportunistically encountered during our adventures. But sometimes we will deliberately direct some of our family activities toward gathering wild food plants that are only abundant during certain times of the year.

 

Read More  |  Login to post a comment

Refuge notebook: Detecting insect damage by satellite 

 02/14/13 - 5:10pm

Extensive defoliation of deciduous shrubs and trees in Southcentral Alaska has received considerable attention over the last couple of years. Even for those who may not be attentive to what is going on in their natural surroundings, the conspicuous patches of dieback on Skyline and Fuller Lakes Trail on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, and at Summit Creek on the Seward Highway, would have been hard to miss.

 

Read More  |  Login to post a comment

Exploring mystery springtails from my own backyard 

 06/22/12 - 10:05am

From my childhood to the present day, what has appealed to me most about the field of entomology is that there really are new discoveries to be made in my own backyard. In my back yard, down in the muskeg just below my office on Ski Hill Road, and on about half of the land area of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, lives a tiny, enigmatic animal about which almost nothing is known.

 

Read More  |  Login to post a comment

DNA barcodes 

 08/05/11 - 10:04am

On a glorious, sunny day in late June, a small team of entomologists convened at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to do what entomologists do best: collect insects.

They had come to take part in a rapid ecological assessment of arthropod biodiversity, where we collect as many species as possible in a short time. 

 

Read More  |  Login to post a comment

Parade

CONTACT US

  • 150 Trading Bay Rd, Kenai, AK 99611
  • Switchboard: 907-283-7551
  • Circulation and Delivery: 907-283-3584
  • Newsroom Fax: 907-283-3299
  • Business Fax: 907-283-3299
  • Accounts Receivable: 907-335-1257
  • View the Staff Directory
  • or Send feedback

ADVERTISING

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

SOCIAL NETWORKING

MORRIS ALASKA NEWS