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Aug 20 2018

Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute Director Bruce Mate posed Thursday beside a sculptural installation mimicking whale bones in Newport's Don Davis Park. (Photo by Tom Banse/Northwest News Network )

Scientists sunk a rare blue whale skeleton. Now they need money to bring it back up

By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network | Nation & World, Outdoors, Wildlife

A set of massive whale bones rests on the bottom of the Newport, Oregon, bay. Scientists from Oregon State University put them there with a plan for a future display on shore. But they’re having trouble finding the money to retrieve the rare blue whale skeleton from beneath the waves.

By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network | August 20, 2018 7:38 am

Aug 17 2018

Vaccinium Ovalifolium, or Oval-leaf Blueberry. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT)

Kodiak biologists track climate variation’s impact on berries, bears

By Daysha Eaton, KMXT-Kodiak | Environment, Outdoors, Southwest, Tourism, Wildlife

Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge biologists just wrapped up this season’s the monitoring berry supply in relation to the health of bear populations. They’ve been assessing berry patches and doing aerial surveys for bears.

By Daysha Eaton, KMXT-Kodiak | August 17, 2018 9:17 am

Aug 16 2018

The humpback whale known as Sasha frequents Southeast Alaska waters and is pictured here in Auke Bay in an undated photo. The whale has a distinctive fluke with markings resembling the letters "AK."

Did the blob drive humpbacks out of Southeast Alaska? Some scientists think so.

By Jake Steinberg, KTOO | Juneau, Science & Tech, Southeast, Tourism, Wildlife

Glacier Bay is the only place in Southeast Alaska where humpback whale numbers are monitored year after year. Anecdotal reports throughout Southeast tell a similar story: Humpback numbers have been down.

By Jake Steinberg, KTOO | August 16, 2018 6:12 pm

Aug 12 2018

Kelp forest in Sitka Sound, being studied by researchers from University of California Santa Cruz. (Photo by Rachel Cassandra/KCAW)

Researchers study climate change impacts on Sitka Sound kelp forest

By Rachel Cassandra, KCAW-Sitka | Climate Change, Environment, Fisheries, Oceans, Science & Tech, Southeast, Wildlife

Sitka Sound Science Center is hosting researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz who are examining the forests in Sitka Sound.

By Rachel Cassandra, KCAW-Sitka | August 12, 2018 10:30 pm

Aug 12 2018

In this photo, taken Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, and released by the Center for Whale Research, an orca known as J-35, foreground, swims with podmates near Friday Harbor,

After 17 days and 1,000 miles, a mother orca’s ‘tour of grief’ is over

By Jenny Gathright, NPR News | NPR News, Wildlife

After carrying her calf’s corpse for an unusually long time, a “remarkably frisky” Tahlequah, or J-35, as the orca’s known, was seen Saturday chasing a school of salmon with fellow members of her pod.

By Jenny Gathright, NPR News | August 12, 2018 7:02 pm

Aug 11 2018

Katmai bears fish at Brooks Falls. (Photo courtesy National Park Service)

Charges pending for three Katmai visitors who approached feeding brown bears

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | Public Safety, Southwest, Tourism, Wildlife

Two Alaska residents and an out-of-state visitor could face charges after they entered a closed area to Katmai National Park and approached brown bears feeding on salmon.

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | August 11, 2018 1:38 pm

Aug 07 2018

Mother, yearling brown bear euthanized in Sitka

By Emily Kwong, KCAW-Sitka | Public Safety, Southeast, Wildlife

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game killed a brown bear sow and her yearling after Sitka Police were unsuccessful in attempting to haze the bears with rubber bullets.

By Emily Kwong, KCAW-Sitka | August 7, 2018 8:55 am

Aug 05 2018

This picture from July 21 shows shrinkage around ailing orca J50's head from weight loss, aka "peanut head syndrome."

Feds may feed starving 4-year-old orca live salmon

By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network | Oceans, Wildlife

The critically endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales is down to 75 individuals. As a young female, J50 holds particularly high value because of her reproductive capacity.

By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network | August 5, 2018 5:21 pm

Aug 04 2018

West Valley High School student Megan Booysen holds one of the earthworms (Bimastos rubidus) she collected last summer at sites around Fairbanks. Her research has been published in a July issue of the Biodiversity Data Journal.

Fairbanks high schooler gets earthworm survey published in journal

By Dan Bross, KUAC | Education, Interior, Science & Tech, Wildlife

West Valley High School senior Megan Booysen is the lead author of the article published in Biodiversity Data Journal.

By Dan Bross, KUAC | August 4, 2018 12:56 pm

Aug 01 2018

A brown bear strolls through a Sitka neighborhood in July, 2014. (Photo courtesy Sitka Bear Report)

Sitka police caution about trash attracting garbage bears

By Robert Woolsey, KCAW-Sitka | Public Safety, Southeast, Wildlife

The streak of Sitka authorities not destroying any bears this summer could end soon if a few residents and visitors don’t tighten up their garbage disposal practices.

By Robert Woolsey, KCAW-Sitka | August 1, 2018 2:48 pm

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Scientists sunk a rare blue whale skeleton. Now they need money to bring it back up

Kodiak biologists track climate variation’s impact on berries, bears

Did the blob drive humpbacks out of Southeast Alaska? Some scientists think so.

Researchers study climate change impacts on Sitka Sound kelp forest

After 17 days and 1,000 miles, a mother orca’s ‘tour of grief’ is over

Charges pending for three Katmai visitors who approached feeding brown bears

Mother, yearling brown bear euthanized in Sitka

Feds may feed starving 4-year-old orca live salmon

Fairbanks high schooler gets earthworm survey published in journal

Sitka police caution about trash attracting garbage bears

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