Kachemak Currents

Kachemak Currents is a natural history radio program produced by the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies. The program covers a wide variety of subjects, all sharing the common theme of the natural history of the Kachemak Bay area.

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Swallows around Kachemak Bay
Kachemak Currents, environmental monitoring
Swallows around Kachemak Bay
Kachemak Currents, environmental monitoring

While tree swallow populations are declining in Alaska, conservation strategies can help their nesting success. One of these projects is happening at Inspiration Ridge Preserve.

Kachemak Currents, environmental monitoring
Puffin Beaks
Kachemak Currents
Puffin Beaks
Kachemak Currents

There are so many things about puffins that make them eye-catching and charismatic. But their distinctive, big orange-and-yellow bills are especially interesting!

Kachemak Currents
Fall Berries
Kachemak Currents, Ethnobotany
Fall Berries
Kachemak Currents, Ethnobotany

The neat natural history and uses of red fall fruits, such as rose hips, bog cranberry, lingonberry, red current, and high bush cranberry.

Kachemak Currents, Ethnobotany