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Why wild Alaska salmon love snow
As your memories of snow blowing and shoveling fade from this past winter, appreciate our exceptional snow year and the gradual spring break-up. Our salmon will be breathing easier, at least this summer.
Shaky Jack-Up Rig Heads North to Start Summer Drilling Season
Escopeta Oil & Gas – now called Furie Operating Alaska – has mobilized the Spartan 151 jack-up drilling rig from its winter storage location in Port Graham Bay in Lower Cook Inlet. The rig will drill the offshore Kitchen Lights Unit to the northwest of Nikiski.
Are they here yet?
You can hear the buzz around coastal Alaska – have you seen any? Are they here? Will all the remaining snow be a problem for them? Yes - it’s time to welcome the shorebirds back!
Don't let hitchhikers on your boat this summer!
The popular aquarium plant Elodea is already in a few lakes around Anchorage. Learn more about this invasive aquatic plant and how you can help stop the spread.
Oil and Gas Drilling 101
Oil and Gas Drilling 101: Get the facts brown bag lunch.
Give Me Back My Government!
But in the larger context, we’re increasingly losing control of the very governments we created to protect and advance the public interest. As the owners of Alaska’s land, air and water resources under the Alaska Constitution, we have charged our state and government officials with the responsibility to manage our resources responsibly for current and future generations.
2012 Homer Electronics Recycling Event
The 7th Annual Homer Electronics Recycling Event will take place on Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 10am to 3pm at Spenard Builder's Supply on Lake Street.
How do you Bond a Project that Mines Through a Salmon Stream?
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to explore bonding a mining project the mines through a wild Alaska salmon stream.
2011 CEMP Year In Review
Cook Inletkeeper released the 2011 review of volunteer water quality monitoring efforts on the Lower Kenai Peninsula in February.
Got Caution? Or Where is the Safety Factor?
We need to design into our use and manipulation of nature a “safety factor”. Good management would include “generous margins of safety” that would avoid tipping points and disaster. The same reasoning supports wearing a seatbelt while driving or leaving appropriate space between you and the car in front of you or saving money for a rainy day.
Coal and Your Health Lecture Series
Alaskans have a great opportunity to learn about coal’s impacts to our health during the upcoming Alaska Lecture Tour: Coal and Your Health, February 14th-17th.
The Cook Inlet Watershed, Inletkeeper and Me
Perspective: My name is Rob Ernst and I have been on the board of directors of Cook Inletkeeper for over ten years.
Creative Giving
There are many ways to support Cook Inletkeeper's important work, and we encourage you be imaginative when you express how much you value clean water and healthy fish in the Cook Inlet watershed.
Snow, glorious snow!
2012 is shaping up to be a great winter for skiers, sledders, snow shovel salesmen and ... salmon! With more water stored in our hills during the winter, more water will be in-stream this next summer allowing better fish passage in smaller creeks and cooler water temperatures.
New Greenhouse Gas Reporting Shows Irony of Alaska
While our thoughts focus on snowy and cold weather, the fact remains Alaska stands on the front lines of the larger, systemic problem of global climate change. From receding glaciers and dwindling sea ice, to warming salmon streams and melting permafrost, Alaska is experiencing the effects of climate change unlike anywhere in the Lower 48.
Kicking Off Clean Boating In 2012!
Cook Inletkeeper is gearing up for a busy year of clean boating activities around the watershed!
An Honest Debate on the Future of Wild Salmon
Governor Parnell's Office is misinforming Alaskans on the Chuitna Unsuitable Lands Petition and impacts to wild Alaska salmon
Our Big Tides
Why are Cook Inlet tides so extreme? Although a complex question, two of the primary factors are the shape and dimensions of the inlet. The funnel shape and the length of the inlet are key. For this sized inlet the natural resonance time period is close to the 12 and a half hour time period between tidal cycles.
Homer Harbor - A Certified Alaska Clean Harbor!
After 2 years of working with the Alaska Clean Harbors program, the Homer Harbor was awarded certification as the first Clean Harbor in the state at the November 28, 2011 Homer City Council meeting.
Why protect salmon?
Alaska is the last bastion of healthy, wild Pacific salmon runs. The mistakes made in in the Pacific Northwest are learning opportunities for Alaskans. Author David Montgomery visited Alaska to share what he's learned about human impacts to the king of fish.
