"This year I walked along the same route after a rainstorm and see only one or two — sometimes none"

Community Water System at Risk: Extreme precipitation throughout the summer and sustained high water has resulted in erosion of the location for the water transmission line and Noatak's two water wells.

Unusual high water all summer in Noatak, causing massive erosion towards the airport and old buried landfill, exposing old trash into the river.

After significant rain and high water from the Kobuk River the Native Village of Kobuk is now flooded.

Tribal member of St. Mary's finds the larva of a predaceous diving beetle.

"I am seeing spittlebugs deposits everywhere I look in the Sand Lake area."

Unusual mid summer storm in Golovin and local observations about changes in the salmon harvest.

"My husband and I have been dipnetting on the Kasilof since 2014. This year we noticed more small fish than usual and all but ~5 of the 35 fish we caught had parasites."

Hikers on Kesugi Ridge observe a large abundance of Rusty Tussock Caterpillars all over cairns marking the trail from Coal Creek to Byre's Lake. They swarmed on the hiker's bodies and packs and from a distance covered structures to the point where they looked black.

"The first wave of dead mussels washed ashore on July 14th, possibly earlier but this was the first report we received. I took the pictures included in my LEO observation on July 16th, and the temperatures were only just then beginning to climb into the upper 70s and lower 80s."

An Aniak resident found these plants below Oskawalik and never have seen them before. Identification is still in progress.

Photos show some of the erosion caused by surge of high water in late June on the Noatak River. As of June 29th, 24 feet of bank have been lost adjacent to the Noatak Airport, and 28 feet adjacent to the landfill.

River erosion in Noatak is posing a threat to wells and transmission lines along the bank as the river ebbs closer.

"River is running bank full with all gravel bars and low islands underwater."

An unidentified tick was found on the nose of a dog in the backyard of a home in south Anchorage. Neither the family nor their pet had been traveling recently. The identification of the tick species is pending.