Hazy air conditions in the Mat-Su Valley, southcentral Alaska.

Elodea, a fast-growing leafy plant, is now in a roadside ditch at the marsh, and a response plan is in the works.

Warning: (2016-11-07) Recreational anglers should avoid consuming the viscera (internal organs, also known as “butter” or “guts”) of dungeness crab

Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

Inside of a couch shipping box.

Himalaya blackberry is an introduced, perennial, spreading shrub.

Sea ice is here and then disapears.

A spider was found in a class room, not sure what it is.

Over 100 dead puffins, mostly tufted, have been found in Saint George, Alaska.

Early sighting of snow this year.

Several ill or dead tufted and horned puffins were found on the shores of St. Paul Island.

Unusually fast flooding on the Chignik River.

During the 2012 wind storm, many of the poplars lost branches or their tops. Now leave the leaves are growing back as big as pie plates.

Decades have passed and ponds are drying up.

“They’ve been in Cordova for over 30 years. They’re just starting to be reported and sighted in other places. We have confirmed sightings in Whittier, in Girdwood, in Chenega Bay, in Eshamy Bay and one of the hatcheries out in the sound has reported them.”