Fall is fleeting but lovely in Southcentral Alaska. ADN photographers captured some of the golden birch forests, drifting fog, migrating wildlife and other signs of the season in the Anchorage area and on the Kenai Peninsula during September 2016.
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Angler Jason Smith tries his luck while fishing for silver salmon in the clear waters of Ship Creek on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Devil’s club turns from green to yellow at Kincaid Park in Anchorage on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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The setting sun tries to break through the clouds at Beluga Point along the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Fall colors decorate Girdwood Valley along California Creek on Wednesday morning, Sept. 7, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Lori Holetz, visiting the area from Santa Cruz, Calif., takes in a foggy view of Turnagain Arm from an overlook just south of Girdwood on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Spring Creek Farm offers peppers, tomatoes, cabbage and leeks at the APU farmers market on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at Alaska Pacific University. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Fog hangs over Otter Lake, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, early Friday morning, Sept. 9, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Spawning salmon are visible in the clear water at the popular viewing spot at Mile 13 of the Old Glenn Highway near the Butte on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)
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A a jet comes in for a landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport as boats at the Cook Inlet Tug & Barge Inc. dock near the Small Boat Launch ride on the waters of Cook Inlet at sunset in Anchorage on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
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A raven flies over Potter Marsh, along the Seward Highway across from Turnagain Arm, with the Kenai Mountains in the background, in Anchorage on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Devil’s club leaves have begun to turn yellow along Rainbow Creek in Chugach State Park on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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A fisherman is surrounded by fall colors on the Kenai River west of its confluence with the Russian River on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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A group of people stopped to photograph and enjoy the sunset over Turnagain Arm along the Seward Highway near Bird Creek south of Anchorage on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Clearing weather revealed snow on some peaks and ridges of Chugach State Park on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Fall colors backdrop crabapples Monday morning, Sept. 19, 2016, in West Anchorage. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News)
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A swan beats its wings as a pair was preening at Potter Marsh along the Seward Highway across from Turnagain Arm in Anchorage on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
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The remains of a humpback whale sit below the Kincaid motocross area on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016. NOAA announced that the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be taking the remains to their Museum of the North. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News)
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A moose and her calf of the year bed down next to a home in West Anchorage on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)