During Thursday’s Ketchikan City Council meeting, City Manager Karl Amylon said that Ketchikan Public Utilities started switching back and forth between hydro and diesel a few weeks ago, but starting Oct. 15th, extremely low lake levels meant switching completely to diesel.
Southeast Alaska has dropped into drought conditions off and on for the past two or more years. Spring rains and snow melt helped refill lakes and reservoirs but a dry, hot July pushed the southern Panhandle into a deeper deficit.
Warmer waters likely enabled a phytoplankton bloom to occur much later in the year than normal off the coast of Alaska and British Columbia.
Ocean water has a green tint near Craig and Klawock, Alaska.
There are no tumbleweeds blowing through the streets of Southeast Alaska towns, but, the region has received quite a bit less precipitation than usual over the past nine months.
Second Noctiluca bloom we have had in the last 4 weeks
Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska's Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback.
This deer season has been the worst in recent memory for a lot of hunters on Prince of Wales Island.
Alaska is considered to be outside the range of cougars (also called mountain lions and panthers), but with cougar populations increasing in many western states and Canada, that could change.
Mountain lion sightings have been reported in far Southeast Alaska for years, and one sighting has been confirmed.
Parasite identified as sea lice.
Unidentified beetle near Tongass Highway
Dead sea otter and star fish
A salmon troller saw a leatherback turtle in the summer of 2015.
1/27/15 Early plants - Klawock, Alaska, USA
12-31-15 Late coho salmon - Klawock, Alaska, USA
Thousands of varied salmon species reported dead at Klawock River.
8-12-13 Growth in coho salmon - Hydaburg, Alaska, USA
Increasing number of seismic events.
Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) seen with large amount of hair loss.
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