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Homer hosts the Kachemak Bay Shorebird festival, which was established in 1993 by a group of Homer residents who wished to educate the public about shorebirds and the wetlands the birds inhabit. [20] Today, the festival is sponsored by Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and the Friends of Alaska
Kachemak Bay (Dena'ina: Tika Kaq’) is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula.The communities of Homer, Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Nanwalek, Port Graham, and Kachemak City are on the bay as well as three Old Believer settlements in the Fox River area, Voznesenka, Kachemak Selo, and Razdolna.
Kachemak Bay at sunrise Halibut Cove is one of the main access points to the park. Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is a 400,000-acre (1,600 km 2) park in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States. [1] Kachemak Bay State Park was the first legislatively designated state park in the Alaska State Parks system ...
Nov. 21—A Superior Court judge in Anchorage dealt a blow to people using Jet Skis, Sea-Doos and other personal watercraft on Kachemak Bay. But officials with Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration ...
Doug Corwin, owner of Crescent Duck Farm, carries a female duck used for breeding in 2014 in Aquebogue, New York. Millions of birds have been killed in response to the spread of H5N1 bird flu.
The local community pursued the designation of Kachemak Bay as a National Estuarine Research Reserve to preserve the lifestyle and economy of the region. The boundary for Kachemak Bay NERR encompasses two state critical habitat areas or CHAs ( Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area and Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area ), and two state parks ...
Kelly Benthall, 53, and her husband decided they wanted to retire early and travel the world. Part of the couple's plan for early retirement was not to leave an inheritance for their six kids.
The Chugach includes extensive shorelines, glaciers, forests and rivers, much of which is untouched by roads or trails. It hosts numerous bird, mammal and marine species, including extensive shorebird habitat and a bald eagle population larger than the contiguous 48 states combined. Human industry in the forest includes extensive tourism and ...