On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks about the crayfish invading the Buskin River with Kelly Krueger, biologist with the Sun’aq Tribe, and Blythe Brown from the Soil and Water Conservation District.

Kayla  Desroches/KMXT Two adventurers have turned a hobby into a career and now spend their time traveling the country and recording trails via video so that other people can hike, bike, run, and ride them. This summer, Discover Kodiak hired Trail Genius to record real-time video and collect information about roughly 28 trails in Kodiak, including Termination Point, Pyramid, and …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly just got rid of the time period of five days it usually takes to advertise jobs to current borough employees. The ordinance was under public hearing at the regular meeting Thursday and Assemblyman Dan Rohrer expressed concern that the assembly’s position would impact the staff’s borough employee unionization discussion as it enters negotiations. …

Example of searchlight, located on Rysäkari Island off coast of Finland. Photo via Wikipedia Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Military History Museum in Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park is on the cusp of acquiring a 1941 searchlight. Volunteer Chuck Meitle, who has flown up from Oregon for the last five summers with his wife Nancy to volunteer at the park, says …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The meaning of the word consolidation came up at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting last night. The assembly voted on asking the public whether or not the borough should consider pursuing consolidation with the city of Kodiak, and Assemblyman Dan Rohrer pointed out that not everyone might be imagining the same concept when the assembly uses …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A visiting PHD student will give a lecture about historic pottery and what she’s learned so far about how some Alaska Native communities used it in the past. Marjolein Admiraal, who’s from the Netherlands, says her PHD focus is on pottery in southwest Alaska, specifically in the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak. “I think I’ve always had a passion …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT One item under new business for tonight’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting is the purchase of spruce tree seedlings for reforestation of the area burned in the Twin Creeks fire. The assembly and borough staff have been discussing reforestation hand in hand with timber harvest in that area, a process which is ongoing. The recovery of that …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Destination Marketing Accreditation Program just gave the nonprofit tourism organization Discover Kodiak its endorsement. Chastity McCarthy, executive director of Discover Kodiak, says Destination Marketing Association International hosts the program. “It’s an accreditation that any destination marketing organization around the globe can apply for and basically it’s a yearlong or more process that kind of gives you this …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A recently completed runway extension at the Kodiak Airport originally produced environmental concerns among local groups and a tribal organization, but some members of the community say they’re satisfied with the compromise that was reached. Tom Lance, the natural resources director for the Sunaq Tribe of Kodiak, says the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities ended up …

Patrick Saltonstall stands in front of site. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository is in the midst of Community Archaeology, a program which reaches out residents to help dig archaeological sites in the Womens Bay region. The volunteers have the option to meet at the museum in the morning and head out there with staff for …