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The 31st Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival kicked off Wednesday and welcomes back migratory birds, visitors and locals for four days of guided bird walks, boat tours, presentations and activities around the bay.
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Mount Saint Augustine volcano is a familiar and majestic sight across Cook Inlet. It's also one of the most highly active in Alaska, erupting six times in the last two hundred years, most recently in 2006. Scientists are now looking into the past of the volcano to better understand its future.
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Low birth rates are likely contributing to the decline in the population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, according to a study published this week.
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In this episode we visit the Native village of Tyonek, and talk to Tonya Kaloa, programs coordinator for Tyonek Tribal Conservation District.Support for Homer Grown comes from Wagon Wheel Garden and Pet and Woda Botanicals.
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Unseasonable weather has cut Alaska’s hay harvest in half and sent the price of feed soaring, making it difficult for both farmers livestock producers who already were struggling with high fuel and fertilizer prices. State and federal experts are advising Alaska farmers to expect continued unusual weather, and they’ve scheduled workshops next month to help farmers plan for the new normal.
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Millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year. On the Kenai Peninsula, one man is trying to change that by giving plastic waste a useful second life.
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Everything under your feet is connected with a near-infinite mycelial web. What’s the connection between microbes, chemical warfare and synthetic fertilizer, you ask?“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” ~ Goethe
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The constant barrage of rain has come at the chagrin of a lot of Alaskans in Southcentral this summer. But Jenni Trissel, of Kachemak Naturals in Homer, said it’s been awesome for Alaskans harvesting berries and mushrooms.
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A new five-year plan from the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office lays out institutional values and goals for Alaska fisheries and for working with their many stakeholders. The plan was published in early September. In an opening letter, Regional Administrator Jon Kurland reminds readers that Alaska fisheries produce more than half of the seafood caught in U.S. waters and contribute more than $7 billion to the national economy.
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After a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saturday, Sept. 17, marks the return of Belugas Count!, a public science event that aims to catalog Cook Inlet’s beluga whale population. The event is hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and will take place across 14 public viewing stations in communities from Anchorage down to the lower Kenai Peninsula.
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The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward has admitted two new patients to its wildlife rehabilitation program. SeaLife Center staff rescued a young male harbor seal and male sea otter pup in late August and early September, respectively.
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If you’re noticing unusual weather patterns lately you're not alone. August saw record rainfall in Southcentral Alaska and on the Kenai Peninsula. Before that, the area experienced an abnormally dry summer.