kenai fjords national park

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife permitting office and the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and Visitor Center are closed.

Alaska State Troopers say the hikers were roughly a quarter of a mile up the Exit Glacier Trail when they were attacked. Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries after fighting off the bear.

The Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area estimates 32 Forest Service employees were laid off from the Chugach National Forest.

A remote landslide produced a tsunami about 55 feet high at Kenai Fjords National Park earlier this month. No injuries or fatalities were reported.

A 15-year-old died of cardiac arrest while hiking, according to Kenai Fjords National Park. A Michigan newspaper reports that the hiker was on a summer camp trip for Jewish children and families from the Detroit area.

To measure the rate of change, researchers looked at satellite images of the glaciers from 1984 to 2021.

According to charges, Blaine Anthony shot a black bear in Pilot Harbor in 2017 and lied about where he shot it. Hunting is now allowed in Kenai Fjords National Park.

Exit Glacier has shrunk by more than 2,300 feet since 2004.That was also the last time Kenai Fjords National Park created a management plan for that part…