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Cooper Landing residents say the 2019 Swan Lake Fire is still fresh in their minds as small wildfires crop up along the highway.
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At its start, the Alaska Division of Forestry focused in large part on managing forests for the state’s timber industry. Firefighting was a secondary…
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There’s a mosaic of land managers on the Kenai Peninsula. But all share at least one common goal: mitigate damage from wildfires.That was front of mind…
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The burn suspension on the Kenai Peninsula has been lifted as of noon today.The Division of Forestry prohibited burning earlier this week due to dry…
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Dry conditions and hot temperatures have turned up the wildfire risk on the Kenai Peninsula this week. The Alaska Division of Forestry issued a burn…
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It's Wildland Fire Prevention and Preparedness Week in Alaska. This week, staff from the Division of Forestry talk through past and present efforts to…
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The ground on the central Kenai Peninsula is still buried beneath a thick, albeit shrinking, layer of snow. But the Division of Forestry has already…
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By this time last year, the Kenai Peninsula was starving for rain. This year, we’re getting plenty of it, and that’s keeping wildfires down.Wildfire…
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Most of the Kenai Peninsula, and most of Southcentral Alaska, is covered by what’s called boreal forest. The forests are dominated by birch, cottonwood,…
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The first ghost of the Swan Lake Fire showed up on Tuesday east of Soldotna.With big wildland fires that burn deep into the terrain, pockets of hot…