Kenai Watershed Forum

Since 2019, Cook Inletkeeper has hosted “Shark Tank”-style events to solicit and help the community pick small-scale projects to back. The latest project's goal is to protect local salmon habitat.

Researchers on the Kenai Peninsula are on the hunt for a pesky waterweed – elodea. The invasive aquatic plant was first detected in the region a decade ago, and monitoring efforts are crucial to prevent its spread.

The Kenai Watershed Forum will host its first-ever Kenai River Fair this Saturday at Soldotna Creek Park. The education-driven fair is a spin-off of the Kenai River Festival, which ran until last year.

The Kenai Watershed Forum, a Soldotna-based nonprofit that works to promote healthy watersheds, recently gave a presentation about a restoration project the organization has undertaken. The project aims to stabilize a local streambank, which can decrease erosion and protect native fish habitat.

The Kenai Watershed Forum is hosting its annual speaker series, highlighting local presenters involved with environmental, outdoor or recreational projects. Last week’s event featured Dom Watts, a biologist and pilot with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who has been studying mountain goat populations on the Kenai Peninsula.

The International Fly Fishing Film Festival will be held at Main Street Tap and Grill in Kenai next Monday. Hosted by the Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited, the event will showcase a number of fishing-related short films from around the world.

The Kenai Watershed Forum has visited more than 50 streams and lakes throughout the central Kenai Peninsula to determine where anadromous fish, such as salmon, can be found. The initiative aims to increase the number of streams and rivers protected under the state's Fish and Game’s Anadromous Waters Catalog.

Our guest this week is the new executive director of the Kenai Watershed Forum, Trent Dodson.

The project is a partnership between the Kenai Watershed Forum and the local chapter of Trout Unlimited to add more streams into the state’s Anadromous Waters Catalog.

For six weeks during the summer, volunteers and Kenai Watershed Forum employees turn out rain or shine to the North Kasilof Beach at the mouth of the Kasilof River to clean up the non-natural materials left behind during the fishing season.