Black bears have taken over a Juneau arboretum, shut down a fish-cleaning facility in Cordova and added to an unusually high year of bear kills in Anchorage, prompting one wildlife authority to call this summer the "craziest" year of bear encounters he's seen.
You're not imagining things: September's weather has been one for the record books, for both the warm weather and unusual streak of sunny days.
Discolored spruce (Picea sitchensis) needles
State transportation workers found wet ground may have contributed to the small landslide, despite the lack of recent rain.
"They are extremely fresh-looking, as if it were the springtime."
“We typically don’t see this type of pattern in September,” an Anchorage meteorologist said. Anchorage's record high temperature was broken on both Friday and Saturday. More...
Fewer wasp and mosquito interactions in Anchorage in 2018 than typical.
Fireweed Clearwing Moth (Albuna pyramidalis) found in south Anchorage.
Over the last two years, an outbreak has affected more than 500,000 acres of forest.
Anchorage hit 80 degrees Tuesday night, beating a record set in 1979, according to the National Weather Service.
A rare sighting near the confluence of the Russian River.
Michael Soltis’ death is the second fatal bear attack in the Anchorage municipality in two summers.
Weak returns forced the latest restriction. Good news: Sockeye fishing at the Russian River is forecast to be good.
Cook Inlet beluga whales are swimming up the Kenai River earlier in the year and in greater numbers than previously estimated, according to new monitoring of the endangered species.
We have over two weeks of cold windy weather. It started in mid April around the time of the big wind storm. And in relation of the wind storm on April 24th, Rick Thoman wrote: "Winds this strong in the Anchorage are rare at this time of year. An unusually strong storm for the season in the southeastern Bering Sea produced southeast strong winds blowing across the Chugach Mountains. However, being April, the temperature profile of the atmosphere close to the ground was more conducive than in winter for allowing the very strong winds aloft to reach down to the ground.
One reading on the Hillside clocked winds reaching 91 miles per hour. The day saw reports of property damage, road closures and downed power lines.LEO Note: According to Rick Thoman of NWS, these are unusually high winds for April.
There is a spruce beetle outbreak in Southcentral Alaska. Since the beetles don't emerge for a few weeks, we might as well start thinking about the problem.
“If black bears are starting to stir, brown bears could be, too,” a state Fish and Game official said.
A flock of European Starlings sighted at a mid-town Anchorage building.
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