Believe it or not, spring is approaching — and Homer’s upcoming community events are starting to reflect that! Take part in a plethora of events and talks centered on gardening and growing things, from another installment of the bimonthly Know Your Land talks hosted at Kachemak Bay Campus to a new series of seed workshops to be held at the Homer Public Library. If you haven’t submitted to the 26th annual Kenai Peninsula Writer’s Contest yet, here’s your last reminder before submissions close on March 2! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be published! Finally, mark your calendars for the triennial Kachemak Bay Science Conference, coming up soon! For further info on all this excitement, check out these Best Bets!
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.