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Dozens of students oohed and aahed on a cold morning in Anchor Point as biologists spawned a pair of coho salmon and fertilized their eggs. It was the first lesson in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s annual “Salmon in the Classroom” program, which teaches Kenai Peninsula students about salmon biology in their classrooms throughout the school year.
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An invasive species with the potential to wreak havoc on important commercial and subsistence fisheries have been found in Alaska for the first time. Biologists with Metlakatla Indian Community say they’ve found the first evidence of European green crabs on Annette Island, near the southern tip of Southeast Alaska.
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How cold is the water in the Bering Sea? That’s what a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants to know.NOAA is currently out in the Aleutian Islands running their annual Eastern Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey.
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It was a big spring for Alaska’s unofficial state bird.Erin Lockwood certainly noticed more mosquitoes than usual at her house in Kenai. And she found it perplexing.
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The reserve’s series of public lectures and hands-on demonstrations cover a different topic each month, like tide pool invertebrates, volcanoes and earthquakes along the Ring of Fire. This month, Bentz said, her organization chose the watershed workshop because of how many researchers studying local watersheds happened to be in town.
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Spring is finally here! If you are like most people you are probably gearing up for the upcoming gardening season, which means you will most likely visit your local greenhouse for plant starts or potting soil. But have you ever wondered where these items come from?
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Emilie Springer attended the Arctic Encounters Symposium in Anchorage and spoke with executive director Rachel Kallander.
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After a successful gardening season, you might wonder how to preserve your excess of vegetables. Our guest is the fabulous fermentista, Willow Jones.…
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For the latest episode of Homer Grown, we travel to that 'micro farm' that host Desiree Hagen mentions in every episode. Darius Kleine of Fritz Creek…
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." In this episode, we talk with Bear Creek Winery's Louis Maurer about utilizing local berries…
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In this episode host Desiree Hagen interviews Jodie Anderson, director of the Matanuska Experimental Farm and Extension Center through UAF about all…
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The soil is alive, but what's actually in it? How can we keep are soil thriving and healthy?Host Desiree Hagen interviews Jessica Sharp from Homer Soil…