Alaska Fish & Wildlife News
February 2025

Stalking Shorebirds on Alaska’s Remote Outer Coast
Researching Elusive Red Knots Part 2

By Jenell Larsen Tempel

The backstory and pilot season were featured in January. Jenell Larsen Tempel picks up the story as the project gains momentum, and bears…

In 2022 we launched our first season in Controller Bay surveying for Pacific Red Knots - small, resilient, gorgeous, plump little birds in a location that for them was essentially a gas station on their way to their real destination, the Arctic. Our new survey methods involved a mark-resight approach to estimate abundance. Mark-resight ...   Stalking Shorebirds Article Continued

The 2025 Conservation Stamp

By Arin Underwood

The 2025 Conservation Stamp is now available on the ADF&G online store! The Conservation Stamp has been running since 2017 and features species of conservation concern in Alaska, with the $20 stamp helping to support fish and wildlife research, monitoring, and education of Alaska’s wildlife.

ADF&G’s biologists work to understand and conserve a broad array of Alaska’s species and their habitats, from little brown bats to beluga whales and Golden Eagles. Additionally, ...   Conservation stamp Article Continued

A Place to Park that Matches the Adventure Beyond
Accessing land via Alaska's Eklutna Lake Trailhead

By Katrina Liebich, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The last way any trail user wants to start their adventure is in need of a “creative way” to park their vehicle (especially if it has a trailer) in a congested parking lot. Until recently, this was the situation at the Alaska State Parks Eklutna Lake All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) trailhead—a popular staging area for hunters and riders in close proximity to Southcentral Alaska’s major population centers. Here, inadequate maneuvering space and an insufficient number of parking ...   Eklutna Trailhead Article Continued

Bear and Moose Awareness in the City
Decades of Wildlife Safety in Anchorage Schools

By Wilson Puryear

Home to just under 300,000 people, Anchorage, Alaska is every bit a city as any other. It’s a place where one can visit fine art galleries, go neon bowling at the mall, and seldom be more than a couple miles away from a Big Mac.

Yet despite the city’s undeniable urban character, for many that live and work in Anchorage there is another crucial quality that keeps it from simply being “Anywhere, USA”: the reality of wild things and wild places that butt up against ...   Bear-Moose Awareness Article Continued