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Body of Missing USCG Hiker Recovered on Christmas Day

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The body of a Coast Guardsmen missing since Saturday was recovered yesterday (Monday) on Barometer Mountain. Alaska State Troopers led the search for 20-year-old Derek Russell who was last seen on Saturday when he reportedly told friends he was going to hike Barometer. Russell was reported missing Sunday night around 6 p.m. Coast Guard helicopters from Air Station …

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The USCG Wants You

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking new recruits and putting Alaskans on the top of its search list. Sara Francis is the spokeswoman for Air Station Kodiak and said the Coast Guard has always been open to enlistment from all over the U.S., but future expansion has led recruiters to look to the last frontier for its next …

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Body of Missing Coast Guardsman Recovered from Barometer

The AP The body of a Kodiak Coast Guardsman from Maine who went missing while hiking Saturday has been recovered. Officials say 20-year-old Derek Winn Russell’s body was found Tuesday on Barometer Mountain, about 1,000 feet below where skid marks in the snow and his ice ax were found at the 2,200-foot level. Russell was last seen at about 10 …

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Assembly Moving to Solve City Sludge Problem

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is one vote away from temporarily solving the bio solid issue for the City of Kodiak. During last night’s regular meeting the assembly unanimously voted in favor of the ordinance that would allow the city to turn the sludge into class B compost at the borough landfill. Mike Patterson is the environmental director …

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Bear Cub Likely Abandoned by Mother

Jay Barrett/KMXT Officials were forced to euthanize an abandoned Kodiak brown bear cub Wednesday, after determining it was too malnourished to survive much longer on its own. A photograph of the bear wandering through the Coast Guard base was widely circulated on Facebook this week. Kodiak Fish and Game biologist Larry Van Daele said he’s been keeping tabs on the …

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Abandoned, Emaciated Brown Bear Cub Put Down

Jay Barrett/KMXT A Kodiak brown bear cub that lit up Facebook this week after pictures of it on the Coast Guard Base circulated, had to be euthanized yesterday. Fish and Game biologist Larry Van Daele said the cub was nothing but skin and bones and was apparently abandoned by its mother and siblings. He said there was no way it …

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The Alaska Fisheries Report with Jay Barrett

Coming up this week, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are challenging aid for Alaskan fishermen in the wake of the King Salmon disaster; Good Samaritans were busy in Southeast last week, and we hear the results of a genetic study of Western Alaska salmon. We had help this week from KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs in Kodiak, …

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Salmon Weathering the Winter in Boy Scout Lake

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT In August, KMXT spoke with Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association about its sockeye salmon rearing project in Boy Scout Lake. It’s been almost five months since the net pens were put in place and some community members may be wondering where the project stands now that the lake has frozen over. Tina Fairbanks is the productions and operations manager …

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