Kenai Watershed Forum

Fireside Chats: Gardening in Alaska with Larry Opperman
2023-10-18 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Join the Kenai Watershed Forum, Wednesday at 6pm for Fireside Chats at the Kenai River Brewing Co.
Larry Opperman, a local gardener and KDLL radio host, will be discussing how to grow a successful garden in Alaska.
KWF Members get a free drink on us. We hope to see you there!

Fireside Chats: Backyard Botany with Bonnie Bernard
2023-10-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Join the Kenai Watershed Forum, Wednesday at 6pm for Fireside Chats at the Kenai River Brewing Co.
Bonnie Bernard, KWF Invasives Species Coordinator, will be presenting on how to identify both native and invasive plants that you can find in your own backyard.
KWF Members get a free drink on us. We hope to see you there!

Fireside Chats: Elodea & Northern Pike Surveys on the Kenai Peninsula with Matt Bowser
2023-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Join the Kenai Watershed Forum, Wednesday at 6pm for Fireside Chats at the Kenai River Brewing Co.
Matt Bowser, a Fish and Wildlife Biologist for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, will be presenting information on Elodea and Northern Pike survey efforts.
KWF Members get a free drink on us. We hope to see you there!

Fireside Chats: A Mitey Mass with David Wartinbee
2023-09-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Join the Kenai Watershed Forum, Wednesday at 6pm for Fireside Chats at the Kenai River Brewing Co.
David Wartinbee, a local biologist and KWF Board Member, will discuss the large amount of mites that have been appearing in local areas.
KWF Members get a free drink on us. We hope to see you there!

Local Salmon Habitat Mapping
2023-09-08 - 2023-09-22 | Kenai Watershed Forum, 44129 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Kenai Watershed Forum are working together in Fall 2023 to identify, map, and conserve undocumented salmon habitat in our area. We can use your help!
Join us for local fieldwork this summer on any of the following days:
September 8th
September 15th
September 22nd
For more information, contact Benjamin Meyer at ben@kenaiwatershed.org

CLOSED: Job Announcement: Executive Director
2023-02-28 09:00 - 2023-06-01 17:00 | Kenai Watershed Forum, 44129 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
KWF is hiring an Executive Director!
The next round of cover-letters and resumes will be reviewed on May 1st, 2023. However, the posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Please follow this link for a description of the position, where to send your application, and more detailed information:
Executive Director Job Description

CLOSED: Junior Stream Watch Technician
2023-01-23 08:00 - 2023-02-17 17:00 | Kenai Watershed Forum, 44129 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
This is a full-time seasonal position based out of Soldotna Alaska. Submissions will be accepted until February 17th.
Please follow this link for a description of the position, where to send your application, and more detailed information:
Click to view Junior Stream Watch Technician Job Description

Hiring: Invasive Species Technician
2023-01-10 08:00 - 2023-02-04 00:00 | AK
KWF is hiring an Invasive Species Technician!
This is a full-time seasonal position based out of Soldotna Alaska. Submissions will be accepted until February 3rd.
Please follow this link for a description of the position, where to send your application, and more detailed information:
Click to View Invasive Species Technician Job Description

2023 Summer Conservation Internships
2023-01-10 00:00 - 2023-02-13 23:59 | AK
See application changes below:
NEW DEADLINE: KWF is accepting applications till 11:59 AKST, Monday February 13th, 2023
Please follow the link below for detailed information regarding the Summer 2023 internships:
2023 Intern Announcement
To apply directly through the KWF website please visit the Internship Page for more details.

Also the Ted Smith Conservation Internship Program through the Alaska Conservation Foundation is offering a position with KWF’s the Stream Watch program at this link:
ACF Stream Watch Internship
Deadline for ACF applications is Monday, February 13th, 2023.

KWF Holiday Open House
2022-12-08 16:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Watershed Forum, 44129 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Please join us at the Kenai Watershed Forum office for our annual Holiday Open House! Each year KWF invites organization partners and the general public for a casual indoor/outdoor celebration with drinks, appetizers, and a side of holiday cheer. We hope you come on out to see the KWF family for an afternoon of fun.
Winners of our Alaska Airlines Raffle will also be drawn during the Holiday Open House. But no worries, tickets can be purchased at the event up until the winner is drawn.

Fireside Chats: Environmentally Conscious Human Development with Nancy Casey
2022-11-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Welcome back to Fireside Chats for week 6. Nancy Casey will be our guest speaker for our final Fireside Chat of the year. Nancy Casey is a licensed professional Landscape Architect & owner of Casey Planning & Design.
Nancy will be sharing how to plan and develop human dominated area while using environmentally friendly site design techniques. Nancy will touch on various ways to environmentally develop out world through water management, efficient site planning for vehicles and pedestrians, land use for pedestrians and minimal pavement, and wildlife movement, safety and food security.

Fireside Chats: Archaeological Sites at KPC with Adam Dunstan
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Fireside Chats are back for week 5 at Kenai River Brewing Company with speaker Adam Dunstan. Adam Dunstan is a professor from Kenai Peninsula College and a cultural and linguistic anthropologist.
Adam will plans to talk about two archaeological sites near Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna, both on the Kenai and stretching across 1,500 years, where salmon fishing was a key part of the communities (and how that shows up through traces on the land). Adam will also relate this to how he think this information is relevant to modern discussions of sustainability and stewardship of the salmon and river.

Fireside Chats: Tikaani's Tale with Kristi Bulock
2022-11-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Kenai Watershed Forum is back at Kenai River Brewing Co. for Fireside Chats week 4. Fireside Chats are a weekly series featuring local specialist sharing information about a different environmental or recreational based topic. Fireside Chats are a great way to learn some new interesting information while getting cozy next to a fire, some friends, and good food and drink. All are welcome at this family friendly event, but members of the Kenai Watershed Forum are treated to their first drink on us!
This weeks speaker is Kristi Bullock. Kristi has worked as a Fire Management Officer for US Fish and Wildlife Service and has multiple years experience managing a recreational dog sledding team. Kristi will be sharing a presentation focused around how she “accidentally” got into recreational mushing. The presentation will also follow the life of Kristi’s retired lead dog, Tikaani, from puppy to her last day mushing. You won’t want to miss out on the chance to hear about “Tikaani’s Tale” and her life as a lead dog under Kristi’s guidance. Weather permitting, Kristi has also offered to bring some basic dogsledding gear and a few sled dogs to accompany her for the presentation.

Fireside Chats: Megafauna Fossils on the Kenai Peninsula
2022-11-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Dick Reger is a geologist and a geomorphologist with more than 50 years of experience and over 130 publications that he has authored or co-authored. He has lived in Alaska for most of his life, leaving every once in a while, but always returning. After once again settling in the Kenai Peninsula, he has made many discoveries across the region.
This Wednesday, Dick will be presenting his recent discoveries from the Southwestern Kenai Peninsula. Dick will be sharing some incredible fossils that he has found in the region for up close viewing. You will not want to miss this rare opportunity to take a journey back in time

Fireside Chat: Beluga Monitoring
2022-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Kenai River Brewing Company, 308 Homestead Ln, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Fireside Chats are a weekly speaker series presented by the Kenai Watershed Forum at the Kenai River Brewing Company. Talks will focus around environmental/recreational topics with a new speaker each week.
This Week: Sonia Kumar is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, studying Cook Inlet beluga whale acoustics and noise in the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers. She will be sharing some of the preliminary findings from her 2021 field research.

Alaska Airlines Ticket Raffle
2022-10-03 08:00 - 2022-12-08 17:00 | AK
See the flier below for raffle information.
If you have any remaining questions, please email membership@kenaiwatershed.org or call (907)-252-8272.
Tickets are now available for purchase online by ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY. If you would like to purchase raffle tickets online, please click the following link: https://kenaiwatershed.formstack.com/forms/alaska_airlines_raffle
Good luck to those that enter.

Job Announcement: Education Specialist
2022-08-22 08:00 - 2022-09-09 17:00 | AK
KWF is hiring an Education Specialist!
This position will be opened until filled, with applications being reviewed immediately.
Please follow this link for detailed information:
Education Specialist Job Description

ConocoPhillips Alaska Matching Grant Challenge
2022-05-22 08:00 - 2022-07-06 17:00 | AK
Through June 19, ConocoPhillips Alaska is matching donations to the Kenai Watershed Forum, up to $150,000.
Together we can support science, education and habitat restoration to preserve the Kenai Peninsula for future generations.

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25th Anniversary Party!
2022-01-20 15:00 - 18:00 | AK

Technician Job Opening!
2022-01-01 08:00 - 2022-01-29 17:00 | AK
The Kenai Watershed Forum is accepting applications until February 5, 2022 for an Invasives Species Technician.
Detailed information regarding the position and the application are available at the link below.
KWF Invasive Technician Announcement 2022

Rain Barrel Workshop
2021-06-12 13:00 - 16:00 | Soldotna Creek Park, 44129 Sterling Highway, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Register Here!

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Contact Galen Hecht with any questions: galen@kenaiwatershed.org or (907) 398-4304

Kachemak Bay Science Conference
2021-03-15 - 2021-03-18 | Online
Attend the 2021 Kachemak Bay Science Conference & Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership Science Symposium.
Conference focus: The Kachemak Bay Science Conference is a forum for presenting scientific and traditional ecological knowledge relevant to Kachemak Bay and its surrounding coasts and waters. The conference will foster an informed and engaged community of environmental researchers, educators, and decision‐makers. This year’s theme is “Conversations in Conservation”.
The Call for Presentations is open until February 8, 2021. Those interested in presenting can submit presentations for consideration using this Google Form.
Attendees can register on the event’s website.

Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership RFP
2020-10-15 00:00 - 2020-10-30 09:00 | AK
Please select one of the attached documents for information regarding the 2021 Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership Request for Proposals.

Submission deadline is October 30, 2020.
2021 KPFHP Request for Proposals – PDF version
2021 KPFHP Request for Proposals – Word version

Virtual and "I did NOT" Run for the River
2020-06-12 - 2020-06-13 | AK
Please join us on Saturday, June 13, as we Run for the River…. or don’t!
Runners – enjoy your favorite 5K or 10 Mile trail, path, road right outside your front door, or at your local park, running trails, bike path…. to support the 2020 Run for the River!
Non-Runners – support the 2020 Run for the River by NOT running/walking and receive a T-shirt to wear proudly!

All runners and non-runners will receive a T-shirt as part of their registration. T-shirts will be available TBA for pick-up at the Kenai Watershed Forum office in Soldotna Creek Park. However, anyone can participate (or not) from anywhere in the world! T-shirts will be mailed to all out of area registrants.
BIG THANKS to our T-shirt sponsor – CROWLEY FUELS! Their support makes it possible to provide cool (literally) DRI-FIT shirts!

*** All registrants will be placed in a drawing for a FREE 2021 Run for the River registration!
Run for the River is an important component to the annual Kenai River Festival. The 2020 Kenai River Festival was cancelled in an effort to prioritize the health of our staff, volunteers, vendors and attendees during this difficult time as we work together to flatten the curve and protect the things we hold most dear.
The Kenai Watershed Forum appreciates your support of our organization, the Kenai River Festival, AND Run for the River! Check out the Run for the River facebook page for updates and info about a contest we will be doing as part of the Virtual Run for the River!

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Kenai River Festival
2020-05-09 - 2020-05-10 | Soldotna Creek Park, 44129 Sterling Highway, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
FREE, Family Fun all Festival Weekend!
Join the Kenai Watershed Forum in celebrating the Kenai River through 20+ Free Kid’s Activities, Alaskan Artisans Market, local beer garden, live music, Run for the River, and more at this pet-free party in the park!
To become a sponsor, sign up to be a vendor, see Kids Zone info or the live music line-up, click here.

Summer Camp Assistant Opening
2020-02-19 - 2020-04-24 | Kenai Watershed Forum, 44129 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
The Kenai Watershed Forum will be accepting application for a Summer Camp Assistant until 5pm on April 24.
Please click here for position description and details.

Stream Watch Coordinator Hiring
2020-02-11 23:00 - 2020-04-30 09:00 | AK
KWF is hiring a full-time (40 hour/week) Stream Watch Coordinator.
The position will remain open until suitable candidate is found, and applications will be received on a rolling basis.
Click here for the full job announcement.

Alaska Climate and Environmental Changes
2020-02-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Kenai Peninsula College
FREE Event
Changes to Alaska’s climate and environment are well underway, and in some ways are into uncharted territory. This presentation will provide numerous examples and put these changes into historical content. We’ll explore some of the reasons for these changes and finish with looking at some possible future climate scenarios for the Kenai Peninsula and Alaska.
Speaker:
Rick Thoman
Alaska Climate Specialist
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hosted by:
Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Parternership
The Kenai Watershed Forum
Kenai Peninsula College

2019 Holiday Open House
2019-12-05 07:00 - 10:00 | Kenai Watershed Forum, 44129 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK, 99669, United States
Join the KWF staff and board as they celebrate the holiday season!

Salmon Run Series - Tsalteshi Registration
2019-07-09 00:00 - 2019-08-02 09:00 | AK
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