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Four consecutive season closures have hit the hundreds of fishing guides who have historically relied on the world-famous king run for their livelihood.

The company says it received necessary permission to make rain with drones, but local officials are pushing for more transparency.

On this episode of the Kenai Conversation, we're joined by Augustus Doricko. Augustus is the CEO of Rainmaker, a cloud seeding company that recently created 19 million gallons of water over three hours above Homer.

It’s been over two weeks since a pilot first reported seeing a mileslong oil sheen while flying over the area. Responders still haven’t determined the cause of the initial sheen.

The onsite joint command says it’s gone several days without seeing any sheen in the area.

State officials say they still cannot trace the sheen to the nearby oil platform.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says the sheen was not visible during flyovers around noon Tuesday or from an oil cleanup ship sent to the site.

The couple participated in the Kenai Peninsula Habitat Rehabilitation & Protection Cost-Share Program, which offers federal matching grants for private projects that rehabilitate and sustain certain salmon habitats.

The Alaska Division of Forestry says the exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, but has ruled out lightning, suggesting the blaze was human-caused.

The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection says the so-called Grandview Fire was sparked by an escaped campfire and slowed when it hit a stand of hardwood.