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Category Archives: Kenai Fjords

Throw Back Thursday: Stepping into the Wild

January 8, 2015by mcodland 1 Comment

In the 16 months since I left Seward, Alaska, hardly a week goes by when it doesn’t cross my mind. Partly for the views like this one, but mostly because […]

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Itinerancy, Kenai Fjords, Observations

IotW: Jellies at sunset

September 21, 2014by mcodland Leave a comment

This one is a throwback to almost exactly a year ago. Walking on the beach in Seward, AK, at sunset. A low tide left dozens of 12-18 inch wide jellies […]

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Animalia, Image of the Week, Kenai Fjords
Late-September sunset over Mount Alice.

(up)Setting Roots

October 11, 2013by mcodland 2 Comments

I’ve been on the move a lot recently. My time at Kenai Fjords National Park just came to an end (coincidentally, on the first day of government shutdown), so it […]

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California, Itinerancy, Kenai Fjords
Author and students at Exit Glacier

Lessons Learned

September 26, 2013by mcodland Leave a comment

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of activity, with hardly a moment to spare between giving school programs and getting ready for the next new program. Today is […]

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Education, Kenai Fjords
Red-necked phalaropes (Phalaropus lobatus) foraging at twilight.

Mistaken expectations

September 20, 2013by mcodland 2 Comments

Walking next to the water just south of Seward one evening, I came across an odd sight. Bobbing in the failing light were two little birds that swam slow circles, […]

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Animalia, Kenai Fjords, Observations
Local elementary school students learn to take waypoints on a GPS.

Two Ways to Find Home

September 11, 2013by mcodland 2 Comments

A school bus pulls up outside the Exit Glacier Nature Center to unload its passengers. A stream of 6th graders pours out its door under a blanket of gray clouds. […]

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Education, Kenai Fjords
The author contemplates Exit Glacier

Nahstalgia

August 28, 2013by mcodland Leave a comment

Tomorrow is my last regular Exit Glacier shift at Kenai Fjords. The moment is almost bittersweet… No more interpretive walks for 2 – 30 visitors (no telling how many or […]

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Kenai Fjords
Moose make about 380 of these each day.

Get Set

August 22, 2013by mcodland 1 Comment

Fall is here. Nighttime is an increasingly convincing presence in the wee hours of the morning, schools are starting up, and the Education staff at Kenai Fjords is kicking into […]

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Education, Kenai Fjords
Exit Glacier in August.

Mainly on the (Outwash) Plain

August 11, 2013by mcodland Leave a comment

It had to happen. I didn’t know when, exactly, but there was no avoiding it. Too many Sewardites warned me, ‘this isn’t the real Alaska.’ I knew it couldn’t last, […]

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Kenai Fjords, Observations
Author and Exit Glacier on the Harding Icefield Trail.

Change of Pace

July 19, 2013by mcodland 1 Comment

Summer is well under way here in Seward. Temperatures regularly soar into the high 60s, the sun breaks through the clouds (most days) by the afternoon, and hikers and sight […]

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Animalia, Kenai Fjords, Plantae

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