Land named for colorful character ‘Herring Pete’ added to Alaska’s Kachemak Bay State Park

A century ago, a Norwegian-born mariner nicknamed “Herring Pete” and his Austrian-born wife operated a fox farm on a scenic, remote and mountainous Kenai Peninsula island. Now that 24-acre island parcel is part of 400,000-acre Kachemak Bay State Park. The Conservation Fund, a private nonprofit that protects vulnerable lands and habitat, has purchased the site […]