We wondered at the huge number of pinks still in the lagoon. Are they running later then normal?
Sea star wasting syndrome, or disease as it has become known, hit Kachemak Bay hard in 2016, killing about 90 percent of sunflower and true star populations.
Unidentified plant found on Nanwalek Beach
Unidentified Ant
Tube-Dwelling Worms on Seldovia Beach
Beach walks this summer find many familiar creatures absent. This changing natural world demands attention and caring.
Found Pipefish
Squid are occasionally found in the area, but not very often.
If Alaska expands how many pink salmon its hatcheries — such as the one in Tutka Bay — produce, will there be unintended consequences that harm Kachemak Bay?
Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.
No one really knows why algae put so much effort into making poisons. Alexandrium makes saxitoxin, and causes PSP. Another algae called Pseudo-nitzschia produces domoic acid, the source of amnesiac shellfish poisoning.
Sick and bloated sea lion may have been caused by eating rotten fish, noted state DVM.
Sea star wasting syndrome was first documented in Kachemak Bay in 2014, but it wasn’t until last summer that the mysterious infection began killing sea stars in large numbers.
Land's End Resort was built more than 50 years ago, and during that time, the Homer Spit has changed dramatically. A change in the direction and intensity of winds may be driving the faster erosion.
A robin was sighted in southcentral Alaska; an early arrival.
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska—be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
Hazardous driving conditions due to freezing rain.
Kachemak Bay has witnessed massive die-offs of sea stars, murres and razor clams. Whats going on?
Died on beach.
But at least there is a stream...
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