Kachemak Bay, Alaska: An Exploration of People and Place
Where are We?
Who are We?
Community Voices
Mammals Quiz
What are the Dynamic Forces that Shape Our Place?
How Have We Survived?
What are the Challenges of Living Here?
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Who Are We?

A farmer showing off his onions and carrots Wolf: Canis lupus
Voices of the Community

Mammals of Kachemak Bay Quiz


Many living communities inhabit Kachemak Bay - a raft of sea otters, a roost of ravens, harbor seals, beds of kelp, flounders flat on the sea floor, spruce trees, humans, and humpback whales. We speak in Sugtestun, Dena'ina, English, Russian, with a coyote's cry, a marmot's whistle, the peal of a loon. There are the silent ones, pink-flowered moss campion hugging an alpine ridge, an outcrop of blue mussels, a swirl of planktonic bloom.

 

Wood carving of a dancing seal spirit
Nahzvaliq
Ronald Senungetuk
Woman walking to shore from dinghy
Reneé - Out of Alaska
© Linda Smogor

Who we are reflects where we live. We shape and are shaped by our place and each other.

Together we share this edge of the world.

 

 

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