Public Webinar

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN ALASKA (WEBINAR) will be held from 10 to 11 Alaska Local Time. JEREMY MATHIS, Professor, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF will lead the discussion. To participate/log in to the Alaska Climate Teleconference, 1) With a regular telephone dial 1-800-893-8850 and 2) When prompted, enter the PIN code: 7531823. Please mute [...]

Flood Hazard District Continues but Flood Plain Task Force Ends

(Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Flood Plain Task Force met for the very last time March 10 at Seward City Hall before being dissolved by the borough. They turned over future flood work to the Seward Bear Creek Flood Board. A divided task force voted 4-2 to keep Ordinance 2009-09 in [...]

Volunteer Citizen Scientists Needed!

Citizen’s Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP)
What is CEMP and what does it do?
CEMP is a citizen science water quality monitoring program, where trained volunteers conduct professional-level water testing. There are currently CEMPs in Homer, Anchorage, Wasilla, and throughout the Lower 48. Seward area volunteers monitor anadromous (salmon spawning) stream water to obtain quantitative physical and chemical [...]

The Green Beet: Compost Recycling

Compost happens. Organic materials, green (grass, food scraps, etc.) and brown (dry leaves and woody materials), pile each year throughout the planet and break down into rich organic matter that helps new plants grow. It is nature’s recycling at its finest – and can be recreated a lot easier than one might think.
For those who [...]

Alaska SeaLife Center Mini Golf–March 27th!

Dear Golf Enthusiasts, Fun Lovers, and Wildlife Rescue Supporters:
It is time once again to hit the links in the 4th Annual Alaska SeaLife Center Indoor Miniature Golf Tournament! Our course designer is hard at work planning a new and exciting route, and the sea lions are looking forward to the entertainment.
This fundraiser for the Center’s [...]

KMTA NHA Meetings

Moose Pass and East Peninsula Neighbors,
I am inviting you to Moose Pass on April 7th, for the introduction of the “Kenai Mountain Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area”.
This Heritage Area is essentially the Seward Highway from Seward to Anchorage. The National Heritage program works to preserve the historical record of significant development in areas that helped [...]

Experts Plan to Fight Invasive Marine Species

(By Heidi Zemach, for Seward City News)
Marine invaders such as Chinese mitten crabs, European green crabs and the elusive, little understood tunicates, may not have arrived in Alaska yet in significant numbers yet-but they’re on the move. That was the main message of a vast variety of experts on invasive species who gathered at the [...]

Gardening Workshop Coming to Seward March 26th

Start the gardening season off right by coming to a gardening workshop taught by Rita Jo on:
Friday, March 26th at 6:30 p.m. (location TBA)
The evening’s main topic will be hanging baskets. The basket workshop costs $25 and Rita Jo will provide all the materials for you to make one basket to take with you at [...]

The Green Beet: Got Garden Fever?

With all this uncharacteristic warm weather we’ve been experiencing the last few weeks, I’ve found myself with a serious case of garden fever, one of the subsets of cabin fever that strikes so many Alaskans during our non-summer months.
Garden fever is usually one of the last fevers to rise during the cabin’s duration – earlier [...]

Great Expectations: Sea Lion Pregnancy Confirmed at Alaska SeaLife Center

Alaska SeaLife Center scientists recently announced that they have reached a major milestone in their efforts to learn more about Steller sea lion reproduction:
Kiska is pregnant!
Last summer, breeding was made possible by housing Kiska and Sugar, the Center’s two female sea lions, in the same habitat with the iconic, 2,000-pound male, Woody. The three sea [...]

Seward Bear Creek Flood Board Hears From Borough Mayor

By Heidi Zemach for SCN
The Seward//Bear Creek Flood Service Area Board voted Monday Feb. 16 to spend $84,000 of its FY2011 budget on a new project at the flood-prone Salmon Creek Road/Nash Road intersection, pending approval by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly. The board already has been promised a matching grant of $60,000 from the [...]

Shorebird Love

The Latest from Niebrugge Images Photo Blog

Shorebirds, Copper River Delta, Alaska
This flock of shorebirds nearly formed the shape of a heart. I captured this last spring and saved it thinking it would be a perfect post for Valentines day – not realizing it would fall on a holiday weekend. So I thought I would post [...]

Second Installment: KWF’s Seward Connection

The Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) is a local 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to maintaining the health of the watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula. KWF is recognized as the regional watershed organization of the Kenai Peninsula. KWF is building strong Seward relationships and is working on several projects in the local Seward area. KWF’s mission is working [...]

The Green Beet: Design with recycle in mind

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
My husband and I recently took a whirlwind trip to visit some friends down in Los Angeles. Leaving the little one at my parent’s Oregon home, we flew down to visit America’s sunny city during the worst rainstorm LA had seen in probably 15 years.
Skipping a trip to the beach, [...]

Kenai Watershed Forum – First Installment: Who We Are & What We Do

The Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) is a local 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to maintaining the health of the watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula. KWF is recognized as the regional watershed organization of the Kenai Peninsula, successfully identifying and addressing the needs of the region by providing high quality education, restoration, and research programs. KWF’s mission is [...]

The” Seward Winter Film Series”

January’s Film Series presents
“Northern Current”

A 1000 mile paddle race by the local Seward couple
Cristan & Alex McLain.
This husband and wife team participated in a paddler’s most grueling race, enduring sleep deprivation, wildfires and travel injuries just to complete the Yukon 1000 Canoe & Kayak Race.
The couple will put it all together and [...]

The Green Beet: Eco-Travel Action Plan

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
During the next few months many Alaskans escape the dark and cold for warmer weather and much-needed vacations. But vacation time doesn’t need to be a vacation from green living. Just a little bit of preparation, a few changes in mindset and some innovative thinking can make a vacation [...]

Jean-Michel Cousteau to Headline Event in Anchorage

The Alaska SeaLife Center will welcome marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau as the featured speaker at its first-ever Alaska Marine Gala on Sunday, January 17th at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage.

Jean-Michel Cousteau learned to understand and appreciate the world’s oceans during his childhood aboard boats and underwater with his late father, Jacques Cousteau, the inventor [...]

Reward 4 B/W Aussie

REWARD: Our black & white Austrailian Shepherd dog ran away on New Year’s Eve due to Fireworks at Mile 7 area. She’s a GREAT dog. Please call to tell us you took her in to protect her. REWARD for her safe return; we really miss her. She has a bald spot on her neck/shoulders due [...]

The Green Beet: Green Resolution

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
2010 is the start of a new year and a new decade. Why not make them a little greener by focusing your new year’s resolution on living a more sustainable and green lifestyle? This could be a life-altering resolution, like giving up one’s car for a bike this year, [...]

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