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Author returns to Alaska for fish and stories

...I'm not done with them yet." But literature and academia felt distant and inconsequential as the boat entered Skilak Lake. On the calm day -- still water, a cloudless, light blue sky framed by snow-flecked, dark blue mountains...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2011-08-24/author-returns-alaska-fish-and-storie
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Study shows Kenai River wetlands shrinking slightly

...not major yet, but we're moving in that direction," he said. The study was confined to 149,459 acres between Skilak Lake and the mouth of the Kenai. Of that area, roughly 32.1 percent is classified as wetlands or deepwater habitats...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060902/sta_kenairiver.shtml
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Alaska Digest

...were no longer in distress. Bear attacks couple near Skilak Lake KENAI - A woman received serious head and shoulder injuries...John Poljacik, both of Kasilof, as they walked on the Skilak Lake Loup. Poljacik received some minor scratches in the...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101105/sta_20051011015.shtml
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Kenai Peninsula a year-round home for hardy trumpeter swans

...River and on the Kenai River below Skilak Lake, trumpeters began nesting in May...there is in big stretches below Skilak Lake. There's aquatic vegetation...Since the living is so good below Skilak Lake, Eskelin said the area draws some...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100707/out_20071007010.shtml
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Bear roamed from Anchorage to Kenai Peninsula

...wandered through Cooper Landing and was next seen crossing Skilak Lake Road on June 8. Over the next three weeks, the bear remained north of Skilak Lake, wandering north and south of the Sterling Highway...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031703/sta_bearroamed.shtml
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Late wildfire burning in Kenai refuge

...The blaze is being allowed to burn and is not expected to spread beyond an isolated hill on the far eastern side of Skilak Lake. Fire investigators discovered an old campfire, and believe it caused the blaze.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100109/reg_499469211.shtml
State to open lower Kenai to king fishing July 1

...productive, tidally influenced fishing holes. Fishing for kings will remain closed between the Soldotna highway bridge and Skilak Lake through July 14. The move is intended to protect straggling early-run fish still making their way toward spawning...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062502/sta_kisgfish.shtml
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Kenai Peninsula-area fire growing, putting out a lot of smoke

SOLDOTNA - The King County Creek fire near Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula is growing as fire officials worry...area between the Killy River and the southwest corner of Skilak Lake. A Type II Incident Management Team arrived Tuesday...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/063005/sta_20050630021.shtml
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Residents near wildfires allowed to return home

...the closure of a portion of the Kenai River to boaters. The Kenai River Trail fire was burning between the river and Skilak Lake Loop Road, according to Bill Kent, supervisory park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. No houses or manmade...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070804/sta_wildfires.shtml
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AlaskaDigest

...was no clear evidence his client was intending to kill Ward. Three boaters rescued on Skilak Lake ANCHORAGE - Three men were rescued Wednesday from Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula after their overloaded boat swamped. Alaska State Troopers said...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071803/sta_akdigest.shtml
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