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Heat Wave Hits Cook Inlet Salmon Streams

By Brandon Hill | Cook Inletkeeper on Jul 11, 2019 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Climate Crisis Sends Stream Temperatures Off the Charts HOMER, AK— As Alaskans suffer through the smoke, haze and danger of a record-breaking heat wave, Alaska’s salmon are suffering too. On July 7th, stream temperatures topped 81.7 oF (27.6 oC) in the Deshka River, a major salmon stream on the west side of Cook Inlet […]

Salmonfest Aerial Art

By Brandon Hill | Cook Inletkeeper on Aug 5, 2018 Featured, State

Nearly 450 attendees of Salmonfest Music Fesitval attendees celebrated with an aerial group photo in the rodeo arena at the Kenai peninsula fairgrounds in Ninilchick. They laid a 50 foot wide fabric formation around a central design of salmon leaping through a giant drop of water which was created using long stretches of cut recycled […]