Kenai Peninsula

stopped almost every day to row the small retrieval skiff into a reef or shore to collect marine organisms. While heading to the next destination, the crew works frantically to preserve and label all species. Heading north along the coast of Baja Peninsula, they collect samples at many embankments and reefs where organisms…

Today, a lot of people call Alaska The Last Frontier. Alaska is referred to as a wilderness that is unsettled, covered in snow, not accessible, remote, and a very intense land where very few tough pioneers traveled to. Hope, a small town on the Kenai Peninsula, gives Alaska a frontier spirit. Hope was the location for the first gold discovery in Alaska in 1896 and gold was the mainstay of the Alaskan economy. The gold rush caused the building of railways to extract minerals. More recently,…

Although I am only a thirteen-year-old, there are about three whole things that some people may not know about me. First of all, my favorite hobby, among others, is playing video games. Unlike many people who play console, mobile, or PC games, I enjoy using tactics and strategy. Most gamers in today's gaming society enjoy holding the trigger or mouse button and spraying bullets back and forth until they can get a kill. However, when I play online games such as Battlefield or Medal of Honor, I…

Over the last few decades, populations of Chinook – or King – Salmon have dropped to all time lows in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Three years ago the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) significantly tightened their restrictions on King Salmon fishing in general and particularly a type of fishing called setnetting (where fishermen employ large nets to catch massive quantities of fish). Since then the King Salmon numbers have been slowly rising to 24,000 fish last season and projections for…

The fourth and final theory that I will be explaining deals with worldwide climate change. Global climate change is a hot button issue for many political and special interest groups and some scientists believe that it may be at the root of the King Salmon’s disappearance. Despite its relative sensitivity, when compared to other theories about the salmon crisis, it is accepted by almost all that it is a happening. Regardless of what side of the political aisle you fall on, it is simply factual…

would be harmful and toxic to human body, before we eat those fruit, it should be treated and safe for eating. [1] Red elderberry could be viewed as a site productivity indicator, according to studies on the Central Coast Range of Oregon and Kenai Peninsula of southeastern Alaska, the growth of red elderberry has positive relationship with site productivity. [3] (Imagine: [3]) References: [1] Gonzalves, Pete. “Red Elderberry”USDA NRCS Plant Fact Sheet, n. d. web 11 May 2016…

Geography of Alaska, Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. Alaska is the biggest state in the United States combined by California, Montana, and Texas. It has more ocean coastal then all of United States combined. Alaska extends from Eastern Hemisphere and both the westernmost and easternmost state in united state. The land area is 570,380 square miles (1477,300 km2). In 1967 United States bought Alaska. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000…

Are you a television watcher? If so, how does that activity balance with your other “free time” activities? If not, why not? Are you a television watcher? If so, how does that activity balance with your other “free time” activities? If not, why not? We don’t have TV’s in our house, instead we have 5 computers with big screens as monitors. My home pc has a 52 inch TV for a monitor, my wife has a 42 inch on her computer, the living room has a 52 with a win 7 tower, and the bedroom has a ASUS…

There is an area within the Pacific Ocean called the “Ring of Fire,” that is a region of high volcanic and seismic activity ranging from parts of Asia, to Australia, and to North and South America. Majority of active volcanoes on Earth are located within the Ring of Fire. In fact 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes are located in the Ring of Fire. Within it’s boundary in the Pacific Ocean, the Ring of Fire consist of the Pacific Plate, where it runs along against other plates such as…

Kooskia City Clerk, a Survivor Will there be a parking space in front or will I have to walk a block? This pops in my mind as I am driving. Every day, I drive by Kooskia City Hall never paying much attention to the big blue building on Main Street. Today is different I’m interviewing the Kooskia City Clerk. As I am driving down Main Street I am still thinking will there be a parking space in front or will I have to walk a block. I’m lucky there is parking right in front, and that is amazing! I…