...none of these captured bugs are mosquitoes; they and other biting flies have not made it to the island.The knee-deep creeks of St. Matthew, most of them spanned with a long stride, are clear and clean. Some cut through beach cliffs, tumbling...
...shoreline trying to find one of the season's elusive first king salmon.The Ninilchik and Anchor Rivers as well as Deep Creek opened at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and despite the relatively low abundance of king salmon in the past few years, people...
...going to find some pieces of the puzzle, somebody's got to be out there looking around."While roaming around the Deep Creek area after flooding hit the peninsula in 2003, Gordon found a piece of woolly mammoth tusk. In November, he was hiking...
...Inlet than any other area of the state or world, The next closest area in terms of harvest is Central Cook Inlet, the Deep Creek-Anchor Point fishery. Lower Cook Inlet is consistently a little larger," said Meyer. As far as the sign at the...
...through, said Michael Fastabend, who runs the beetle mitigation program for the Kenai Peninsula Borough. But south of Deep Creek, he said, the depletion of mature trees and the fast growth of tall grass appear to cut off regeneration. He said...
...first day of their trip, they only made it as far as the Deep Creek Campground, which is run by the Alaska Division of Parks...Peninsula. This glacier-studded valley was a lot like Deep Creek - too pretty to pass up. So they turned off the Seward...
...with highly flammable beetle-killed trees and black spruce. The fire has spread several miles into the south side of Deep Creek drainage, Eriksen said, something firefighters had been struggling to prevent. "When fire gets into drainages, they...
...a wedding trip to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, then returned to make their home in Spokane, where Good was stationed at Deep Creek Air Force Base. The couple later moved to Juneau in 1967 to raise their three children, Craig, Clay and Sheila, who...
...project for the program along Cook Inlet. Her work will include testing new tags on fish in the Ninilchik River and Deep Creek in Ninilchik. Nielsen, fishery supervisor with the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center, said her team...
...off beeps underwater, Nielsen and co-researchers Wilson, Phil Richards and Chris Zimmerman plan to start tracking coho salmon smolts from Ship Creek, as well as steelhead from the Ninilchik River and Deep Creek on the Kenai Peninsula.
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