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Ryan Gabor (left) and Pearson Brodie (right) prepare and eat crawdads following their snorkeling trip to the Buskin. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT An informal sport fishery has popped up in Kodiak. For crawdads. They’re crustaceans that look like little lobsters, and they’re native to the Pacific Northwest. But, in 2002, they were found scuttling along the …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Blythe Brown and Kari Linkenhoker with the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District talk about what the nonprofit is working on, from the community garden to new culverts.

Garden beds at the community garden. Kayla Desroches / KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Bike theft is common in Kodiak, but locally grown produce is also in high demand. A member of the community garden says she went to tend to her vegetables and found them missing. The Larch street garden gives residents a chance to grow their own produce in a …

Governor Bill Walker declared this week Alaska Invasive Species Awareness Week. In observation, Talk of the Rock invited Blythe Brown from the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District onto the show with three of her summer interns. They talk about weeds, invasive flowers, and other introduced species on Kodiak Island and what they’ve been doing about them.

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks about fish culverts with Blythe Brown from the Soil and Water Conservation District and habitat biologist Will Frost. They cover the purpose of culverts, how they play into the salmon life cycle, and what lies in store for culverts on the Kodiak road system.