Police Kill Bear, hurt bystander

By Heidi Zemach
Seward Police shot and killed a medium-sized black bear who had been wandering around the small boat harbor at around 10 p.m., injuring a bystander in the process Thursday night. One of the two shotgun slug-rounds used went through the bear, ricocheted, and struck a man in the abdomen. The local resident received [...]

Bear Glacier Lagoon

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Bear Glacier Lagoon, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
Can you see the kayaker? I paddled around this massive iceberg to include Janine on the far side of the old tunnel to put the scale in perspective. She was well back from the arch and the iceberg, so that [...]

Shining Her Light on Resurrection Bay

By Heidi Zemach
(Authors note: As I enter my fifties, I look for inspiration to people like Judith “Lani” Lockwood, and the other retired local interpreters for the National Park Service. Folks like Lani and Chad Lockwood, Tom Osborne, Jim Fredrickson, Mark Swanson, Stan McKnight, Doug Capra and the late Roger Steinbrecher. After decades of teaching, [...]

Rescued Sea Otter Heads to NY

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
A cute, but very demanding little 2 ½ month old Northern Sea Otter named Tazo will be taken on a long drive and plane ride from the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward to his new home at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island today. Tazo spent his last [...]

Not Ready

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Devils Club, Chugach National Forest, near Seward, Alaska.
This bright red patch of devils club in a sea of rich green caught my eye yesterday as I went running on my favorite mountain trail. I went back this morning with a camera, 24mm tilt/shift lens and a tripod [...]

Seward Bear Watch 2010

It’s time again for the Seward City News Bear Watch campaign. We invite anyone with a bear sighting to comment in with a type, location, date and time of bear sightings. Last year this effort gathered 38 sightings, helping to identify problem bears and warn neighbors and neighborhoods of our seasonal guests. When a [...]

Kenai Fjords National Park Celebrates Completion of Exit Glacier Pavilion

Kenai Fjords National Park invites you to celebrate the completion of the Exit Glacier Pavilion, the first of several planned improvements for the Exit Glacier area. The park will be honoring the companies and organizations that participated in the tour boat booklet program, which generated half of the revenue used for Exit Glacier area improvements. [...]

The Green Beet: Dip Netting Frenzy

The red runs on the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers are in full swing, and the Soldotna/Kenai area is flooded with Alaska visitors ready to net their share of fish for the 2010 season. I’ve dip netted for years, sometimes coming home with my limit, other times with only a fraction of what the state says [...]

Moose

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Moose cow and calf at sunrise, Denali National Park, Alaska.
If you look close you can see the ears of the calf just behind it’s mom. This cow and calf ran by us at full speed early one morning last week. We never could see what it was [...]

The Green Beet: Chickweed Spring Rolls

I’ve been enjoying some of my first harvest this week – radishes straight out of the ground, cucumbers out of a friend’s much-coveted greenhouse. This is also a great time to enjoy the wild plants popping up in your yards and along trails. This week my family feasted several times on Thai fresh spring rolls with [...]

The Green Beet: Compost and Feeding Plants

Have you turned your compost pile yet? Now is a great time to do it, with plans to turn at least once more in August – every week or so from now if you are so inclined would help even more. A pitch fork and a complete pile flip is ideal, but I’m trying my [...]

Humpback Whale

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Humpback Whale
I never get tired of watching whales – especially when they are as active as this one was!

If you were selling garbage…why would people buy it? II

As a reader and resident I really enjoyed the discussion last year about the instant trash disposable toys, such as the exploding bags, silly string and streamer poppers, sold by some vendors downtown during the 4th celebration. This afternoon I talked to several of the vendors to see if they were aware of the controversy [...]

Alaska Railroad clarifies herbicide permit misconceptions

By Tom Brooks, Alaska Railroad Chief Engineer
There has been a lot of hyperbole about the Alaska Railroad Corporation’s (ARRC’s) proposed application of the weed killer glyphosate in areas between Seward and Indian. A few points of clarification are in order.
First, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) permit stipulates that no herbicide will be applied [...]

South Beach to Alpine trail Connector trail passable

South beach to Alpine Trail hiking connector marked

Seeing Red: Sockeye run disappoints

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
There’s been steady combat fishing for sockeye at the mouth of the Resurrection River. Saturday, a beautiful sunny day, was the busiest day yet at “Mount Alice Beach,” a prime spot locally known as the “Five Dollar Hole” for the five dollar per-person fee charged by Tim McDonald, a [...]

Seward Sporadic Bird Report: Top Gun eagle show

June 14, 2010

Sunrise 4:32 am, sunset 11:24 pm, length of day 18 hours, 51 minutes; tomorrow will be 1 minutes and 7 seconds longer. Summer Solstice is only a week away!
Weather: Rain has been forecast just about every day this past week, as one spectacular sunny jawdropper follows another. But today is indeed cloudy with [...]

The Green Beet: Lawns part one – helping a sick lawn

By Jen Ransom
My front yard is a bit of a disaster. Not much grass, a lot of weeds. I pledged this year to help it out a little. First thing this spring, our family rented a dethatcher, which looks kind of like a lawn mower. Instead of cutting the grass at the top it cuts down [...]

Council Considers Navigability and Flood Mitigation

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
Anxious property owners packed the Seward City Council Chamber Monday night as the council attempted to become more educated on the thorny, often contradictory legal issue of navigability. They heard from Borough Mayor Dave Carey, hydrologist liaison Dan Mahalak, Department of Natural Resource Navigability Unit head Scott Ogen, and [...]

The Green Beet:Hints for the less-than-perfect gardener

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
By now many of you have planted. If you haven’t, it’s not too late. Many greenhouses still have vegetable starts available; many look much healthier than mine. Yet I don’t mind putting the long, leggy starts of broccoli and less-than-tight clusters of lettuce into the ground: My experience has [...]

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