A red fox peers through underbrush at Buskin River State Recreation Area in 2011. Photo by James Brooks / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT Friendly foxes in Kodiak aren’t necessarily a good thing – it usually means someone is feeding them. Not only is that illegal, it’s bad for their health. Nate Svobda is the Kodiak area wildlife biologist for the Alaska …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak Island Borough staff has an eye toward reforestation in the Chiniak area damaged by the Twin Creeks fire, but first, they need to harvest the trees and see how much they can salvage and sell abroad. Resource Management Officer Duane Dvorak says, right now, A-1 Timber is in the preliminary stages of harvest. “They are doing some …

Amanda Miles. Courtesy of Amanda Miles Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Area Native Association’s first dental health aide therapist received her certification last week. The dental health aide program, which is sponsored through the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the University of Washington, strives to improve dental care in rural areas of Alaska. It teaches students to provide dental education …

Inundation map of Kodiak. Via UAF Alaska Earthquake Center Kayla Desroches/KMXT Tsunamis can strike without warning, which makes it vital to always be prepared for them, and one step Kodiak residents can take is to figure out whether the location of their house makes them vulnerable. Representatives from NOAA, the State of Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Solutions for community problems can be found within those same communities – that’s what leaders are saying after a recent meeting of educators in Washington D.C. The National Education Association just wrapped up its annual meeting and representative assembly in the capitol Thursday. Ron Fuhrer, outgoing president of NEA-Alaska, says along with discussing federal education funding and programs, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly gave the legislature a nudge forward at an assembly regular meeting last night. It passed a resolution that urged the legislature to pass a “balanced” and “sustainable” state budget. Borough Manager Michael Powers explained that Governor Walker’s office contacted all the members of the Alaska Municipal League, which includes many of the cities …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, weathervane scallop fisheries are open, but it could be a while before some fishermen can harvest the scallops. Then, water temperatures in the Bering Sea are notably warmer this year, but researchers aren’t concerned about tanner crab. And kids get the rundown on the the critters at the bottom of the fish food chain. …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Two new Alutiiq Museum employees are Kodiak locals and former Alutiiq Museum interns. Molly Odell, who will handle museum grants as Project Manager, she says she pursued a master’s degree in archaeology and can trace that interest back to her childhood in Chiniak. “There was a big archeological dig right next to my house. It was on the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Crowd-funding is one way to reach out for financial support for good causes, and those causes range from creative entertainment like independent video games to more serious, personal causes like funding hospital visits and medical care. One page for a child whose mother is from Kodiak is trying to help the young girl cover medical bills through YouCaring.com, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The bag and possession limit for sockeye salmon in the Saltery Cove drainage has just been raised to 10 fish starting today. The escapement goal for sockeye salmon at that drainage is 15,000 to 35,000, and the Saltery Creek weird count was roughly 12,500 on July 4. Based on that number and historical data, the Alaska Department of …