Homer’s Kachemak Bay Campus welcomes the newest cohort of Semester by the Bay students. Twelve students — visiting Homer from colleges and universities as far away as the University of Maine and Florida International University and as close as Alaska Pacific University — started the spring program Jan. 16.
On behalf of Kachemak Bay Birders and as an organizer of the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Monitoring Project that is sponsored by Kachemak Bay Birders, I want to comment on the viewing platform and boardwalk that Doyon Ltd. presented at the Jan. 3 Planning Commission Special Meeting. My comments only address the potential impact that this project might have on local bird populations and habitat as well as opportunity for birding.
On Thursday, Dec. 7, community members gathered for the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust’s Annual Meeting to celebrate peatlands. Over 20 years of partnership between KHLT and the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, coupled with the City of Homer’s enthusiasm for green infrastructure to manage stormwater, and community support to conserve carbon in peatlands, has resulted in a significant project to purchase peatlands along Kachemak Drive for conservation and nature-based solutions to manage stormwater runoff.