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...Herreman said the Peninsula has four caribou herds - the Kenai Mountain, Killey River, Fox River and Kenai Lowlands. Currently, the Kenai Lowlands herd is not harvested from, but population estimates indicate that herd remains stable, which could...
...If you look eastward along this interface, you'd see the black spruce, birch and extensive peatlands in the Kenai Lowlands, white spruce and subalpine shrubs reaching above Tustumena Lake into the Benchlands, the standing and fallen beetle-killed...
...female moose than any other source of mortality. Ed Bangs and his colleagues tracked 51 adult female moose in the Kenai Lowlands between 1980 and 1986. Fifteen of his collared cows died from vehicles, translating to a mortality rate of 4 percent...
...about this I didn't believe these animals were here," he said. "I had been studying the glacial history of the Kenai lowlands since 1976 and I just didn't see how any animals could live here during the last ice age for sure." But over the...
...remains of other mammoths that may have died on the Kenai lowlands were either destroyed or deeply buried by the last...13,000 years ago after the ice retreated from the Kenai lowlands and the young herbaceous tundra habitat became briefly...
...block of glacial ice imbedded in sands and gravels derived from the melting ice sheet that had flowed out across the Kenai Lowlands from the Kenai Mountains. This ice sheet did not pull back like modern valley glaciers, but simply fell apart with...
...significant trends over the past 40 years. Nevertheless, marten have managed to persist and indeed expand across the Kenai Lowlands during this period despite unreliable snowpacks and cold temperatures. This suggests that marten are in fact highly...
...of the 130 or so caribou of the Kenai Lowland herd. Caribou are commonly seen...recognized on the peninsula, the Kenai Lowland herd is the only one that does...establishment of the Kenai Mountain and Kenai Lowland herds, respectively. Additional...
...miles through the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Its watershed drains 280 square miles of forest and muskeg in the Kenai Lowlands, and includes over 125 named lakes (see map). The Swanson River and its tributaries have significant runs of coho...
...meters (165 feet). Closed-basin lakes in the Kenai Lowlands have been drying, and shrubs and black spruce have...hand, American marten appear to be increasing in the Kenai Lowlands, in part, due to warmer winters with more snow...