High rainfall this month is being blamed for a major landslide near Sitka. The US Forest Service reports that a 100-acre slide came down in the Starrigavan Valley, about ten miles from town. The slide, and water damage to an ATV trail in the valley and other hiking trails elsewhere in Sitka -- all add up to a tough month for the agency.

A terrible year for berry harvest in the Upper Nushagak River.

9-24-14 Coho salmon with parasites - New Stuyahok, Alaska, USA

9-23-14 Lots of wasps - Kolikanek, Alaska, USA

A great year for harvesting mossberries.

9-18-14 High surface water temperatures - Bering Sea

9-10-14 Unusual caterpillar - Big Lake, Alaska, USA

These ladies found a snail that they had never seen before and brought them.

9-04-15 Swainson's thrush - Wales, Alaska, USA

9-2-14 Caterpillar with reddish tail - Tyonek, Alaska, USA

11-30-13 Delayed winter - Nondalton, Alaska, USA

Hundreds of birds washed up on the shores of St. Lawrence Island.

Persistently high levels of PSP recorded in the Shumagin Islands.

Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.

11-11-13 Weather effects caribou migration and season - Barrow, Alaska, USA

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.