High-fire danger prompts burn ban this week, A burn suspension is in effect for the Kenai Peninsula due to high fire danger, high fire activity and limited firefighting resources, according to a special notice from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
“The midpoint of the Anchor River king salmon run was extremely late. These fish are really having some odd, unprecedented run timing and behavior."
However, if ingested by oysters and other shellfish, the sudden burst of a ciliate form of zooplankton — or animal plankton — called Mesodinium rubrum could turn their meat pink.
A decomposing sleeper shark was found on the beach in Kasitsna Bay.
Invasive pigeons have made their way out of Alaska's large cities to fish camps on the west side of Cook Inlet.
Partially decomposed whale
Coastal Alaskans were roused out of bed last night following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami warning. The warning was canceled within a matter of hours.
Until 2007, there have been only three verified reports of green sturgeon in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, and two anecdotal reports from the Copper River and Unalaska areas.
First time we have ever seen a dead pup.
Defoliation of willows, alders, and berry bushes may be related to different insect species depending on the plant.
Strong winds might have blown sea cucumbers (Cucumaria miniata) up on to the beach, exposing them to the cold at low tide.
A snowmachiner was killed Monday afternoon in an avalanche on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska State Troopers reported late Monday night.
A winter storm combined with a 20.7-foot high tide hammered the north shore of Kachemak Bay last Thursday.
The man was walking his dogs on a well-used trail when he came across a sow with two cubs, a Fish and Game assistant area wildlife biologist said.
Willow and currants are budding unusually late, during an unusually warm fall.
Unusual foam on autumn fallen leaves does not belong to a spittlebug, but may be a type of fungus.
A large group of dead northern sea nettles (Chrysaora melanaster) found near the shore in Kasitsna Bay.
Heavy seas caused an Offshore System Kenai (OSK) earth and fill dock, with fuel lines, to collapse. The U.S. Coast Guard says about 300 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled when fuel lines were ruptured.
The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for Kenai Lake and the Kenai River near Cooper Landing.
"Jakolof Creek is dry almost all the way up to the switchbacks and continues to recede. The early run of red salmon may have made it to the lake, but that is probably the only run that has."
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