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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Alaska Tsunami Bowl a learning experience

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
heidizemach@yahoo.com
Seward High’s team of marine science geeks, Perusing Pycnopodia, competed with 21 other teams from across the state at the Alaska Tsunami Bowl February 5-7th in Seward. Team members included Nathan Feemster, Eileen Audette, Maddy Campbell and team captain, Maggie Herbert. They were coached by Adrienne Moretti, an educator [...]

City Council Addresses Coal Issues

(Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)

Coal dominated the Seward City Council meeting Monday, Jan 25th, as nearby, coal-filled trains pulled up to the Seward waterfront coal transfer facility, steadily growing a 90,000 ton-plus coal pile as it was loaded onto a waiting ship. The council unanimously agreed to undertake a community-wide ambient air [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New Climate Change Information Tool Available to Alaskans

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy is pleased to announce a
new climate information tool available to Alaskans. Communities now have
access to climate change data focused on their own backyards, thanks to a
community charts tool created by the Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning
(SNAP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
More than 350 places in Alaska [...]

November 2009 Weather Summary

Weather Summary from the Kenai Fjords National Park Service
November was a great month to give thanks: to the snowplow operators on Thanksgiving weekend, for good ice skating in the middle of the month, for some wonderful snow conditions late in the month, and for the late (but not really that unusual) first snow of the [...]

weather affecting the snowpack

Many of our lives were put on hold late friday afternoon as mother nature shared with us our first big storm of the winter season. An avalanche crossed the Seward Highway near Mile 21.5 and closing the highway for about 24hrs.
This 970mb low tracked into pws and the kenai mountains producing 19” of sweet [...]

Seward Children Get Their Swine Flu Shots

By Heidi Zemach for SCN

(Photos: Jordan Sewell gets a shot, while Alexa Rose Knapp gets a nasal dose)

About 182 pre-school and elementary school students bravely got their H1N1 “Swine Flu” inoculations at Seward Elementary School library Wednesday morning, with the help of 20 volunteers. The volunteers included nurses, a physician, EMT, and parents and [...]

Sea Life Center taps clean, plentiful energy source

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
Ressurecton Bay beyond ASLC

Most of us probably wouldn’t imagine the seawater in Resurrection Bay to be warm. Not warm enough to heat local buildings during the cold winters. But we would be wrong. In fact, Resurrection Bay is a wonderful source of energy that stores large amounts of solar [...]

Abandoned Swan flies south—by plane!

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
A female, 23 lb trumpeter swan, a media darling of sorts for having survived being shot with a training arrow on Tern Lake in late August, is back at the Alaska SeaLife Center awaiting transport later this week to the Northwest Wildfowl Farm in Lake Stevens, Washington.
The private avian [...]

Yeosu (beautiful Yeosu): Seward’s Sister City in South Korea

By: Ian M. Dutton, President & CEO, Alaska SeaLife Center
I just had the pleasure of spending two days in Yeosu, Seward’s sister city in South Korea. Yeosu is located on the south coast of Korea, about 45 mins flight south of Seoul – see http://www.yeosu.go.kr/en/. My visit coincided with a field trip by the evaluation [...]

Trumpeter swan pierced by arrow brought back to Alaska SeaLife Center, unable to fly south with others

NEWS FROM THE ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER
A trumpeter swan that had been rescued and treated by Alaska SeaLife Center staff after getting shot with a target arrow was recaptured today on Tern Lake and brought back to the research and rehabilitation facility in Seward. SeaLife Center personnel and Moose Pass residents had [...]

Tsunami Bowl XIII

Have you planned your winter vacation yet? Well, now is the time to pencil in your MINI-VACATION! in scenic Seward next February during the 13th annual Tsunami Bowl.
Tsunami Bowl XIII will be held February 5 – 7, 2010. This year the students are again doing a research project with each team producing [...]

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