There were alternatives for Trans Mountain Corporation to digging a trench in the river to lay pipe during the time the salmon were running.
The cormorants moved in when the peregrins did not return this year. "We believe (they did not return) because of the bird flu."
A cormorant was observed in White Mountain. See also recent report from Golovin.
There has been alot of heavy weather hitting western Alaska this summer. Here are photos from recent storm surge in Kotzebue.
Many boats had to be secured & moved this morning. Hoping winds & rain slow down, but in the forecast.
Interesting cysts covering a young choke cherry tree.
Landslide at 3 mile PSN happened outside the typical time of year for slides.
The first observations of orchids in the area were in 2020. Now they are becoming more common.
Unidentified spider observed outside of a commercial building.
A resident of Seldovia reported an infestation of worms infesting an area of salmonberry brush and nettle.
"The event occurred on June 29th, on our native allotment near Kotzebue (Illivak). We left home in the morning and when we came back around 8:00 PM in the evening the whole lake had drained! It looked like it was blown up with dynamite."
This eye catching insect is the adult stonefly.
Community gravel source and old dump site threated by erosion.
I saw an extreme amount of spittle bugs not only on grasses and plants but on flowers.
Our Mosquito Magnet trap filled in under a week. We normally empty it once a month or so.
No one in Grayling has seen this big a whitefish before. ADFG lists state record for broad whitefish as 11 lbs. This one weighed in at 15 lbs!
I have photos of four different sea cucumbers decaying, but my friend claims to have observed around 10 dead sea cucumbers.
There were a plenty of what appeared to be juvenile dead stickle back fish on the top of the embankment of a few ponds.
"Since about May 25, crews have been seeing multiple species showing what we believe are signs of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The signs we are seeing widespread is a headshaking that we equate to "getting the cobwebs out", like a person may do when they first wake up. This behavior occurs regularly every couple minutes. This behavior has been observed in: black brant, cackling geese, bar-tailed godwits, dunlin, lapland longspurs, spectacled eiders, emperor geese, greater white-fronted geese, sabines gulls, glaucous gulls, and red-necked phalaropes."
The collapse was documented with drone imagery as was a permafrost rebound signature in the river water.
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