Air Quality will vary between Good and Unhealthy depending on wind flow and proximity to the fire.-Southcentral areas near–Willow, Wasilla, Palmer, Butte, Anchorage, and south over the Kenai Peninsula to include Cooper Landing, Kenai Keys and Skilak Lake areas.
White-winged crossbill
Deformed halibut (Hippoglossus stenoloepis)
There were lightning strike-caused fires at Paul's Creek and Coffee Creek north of King Salmon, AK.
6/17/15 Drought - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Not a single humpback whale was seen in the Salish Sea for nearly a hundred years
Smokey air as a result of wildfires to the north and south of Anchorage.
Unusual fish catch
Sockeye wildfire at mile post 77 of the George Parks Highway near Willow.
There seems to be an unbelievable bumper crop of spruce cones both in trees and on lawns this spring. Their abundance has been quite a topic of conversation, at least in my circles. It is coneucopia!
Mushy meat texture, and rotten smell found in sockeye salmon and pacific halibut.
Sheep, primarily ewes and their lambs, have died in great numbers this past lambing-season. The cause has yet to be determined, and farms all around Iceland appear to be affected.
The so-called 'warm blob' of water in the North Pacific has brought unusual plankton, which lack the nutrients wild salmon and other marine animals count on.
Environment Yukon's carnivore biologist is enthused about cougar sightings near Whitehorse, as tracks suggest the big cats are breeding in the territory.
Dead gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) reported off the Alaska Peninsula
Scientists first caught on to the strange event when they found thousands of purple sea urchins and other organisms dead in their laboratory tanks.
Photos and observations of the sheen thought to be caused by a fuel leak in the village of Shishmaref.
5-31-15 Unusual beetle - Goodnews Bay, Alaska, USA
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