Photo Courtesy of Great Land Trust. Daysha Eaton/KMXT More than 3,000 acres of ecologically rich land on Afognak Island is now protected through a wildlife and recreation corridor. “There has been some logging in the area, but it is fairly minimal,” said Ellen Kazary, Executive Director for the conservation non-profit, Great Land Trust. “So, you are flying over these impressive …
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Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by USFWS/Katrina Mueller) Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing sport and subsistence fishing on Kodiak’s Litnik or Afognak Lake and Buskin River drainages due to low escapement. The closure begins Saturday. ADF&G closed sport and subsistence sockeye salmon fishing in the Afognak River and the Buskin River systems. “Right now …
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Museum archaeologist Patrick Saltonstall and helicopter pilot Keller Wattum documenting a petroglyph site on Afognak. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Saltonstall) Mitch Borden/KMXT A local researcher took to the air to do a survey on Afognak Island, but what was meant to be a routine assessment of known historical sites turned into a day full of surprises. Patrick Saltonstall usually travels …
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Rocks alignments representing the remains of an intertidal fish trap, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photograph courtesy the Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT A local archaeologist says there may be the remains of a historic Alutiiq fish trap on the north end of Kodiak Island. He says those types of man-made formations are rare to discover in the region. The Alutiiq Museum is …
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