by CoastView | May 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Emmonak is a Yup’ik community located in the Yukon River Delta about 14 miles (23 km) upstream from the Bering Sea on the right bank of a tidal distributary channel of the Yukon River called Kwiguk Pass, about 92 miles (148 km) west-southwest of Saint...
by CoastView | May 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Waterfalls
Kirschner Lake is on the western coast of lower Cook Inlet at an elevation of about 80 feet (24 m) and isolated by a waterfall that cascades 40 feet (12 m) to the northern shore of Kamishak Bay, about 110 miles (177 km) northeast of King Salmon and 86 miles (138 km)...
by CoastView | May 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Port O’Brien is a remote salmon cannery located on the eastern shore of Northeast Arm Uganik Bay on the northwest coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (236 km) south-southwest of Homer and 34 miles (55 km) west of Kodiak, Alaska. The cannery was named after...
by CoastView | May 16, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Oregon, Rivers
Rogue River begins at Boundary Springs at an elevation of 5,320 feet (1,622 m) near the northern edge of Mount Mazama in Crater Lake National Park and drains a watershed of 3.3 million acres (1.3 million ha) while flowing generally west for 215 miles (346 km) through...
by CoastView | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Waterfalls
The Hidden Falls Fish Hatchery is located in Tongass National Forest on the northeast coast of Baranof Island, at the head of Kasnyku Bay off Chatham Strait, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Angoon and 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Sitka, Alaska. Hidden Falls...
by CoastView | May 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Port Bailey is a historical cannery in Dry Spruce Bay on the Kupreanof Peninsula of Kodiak Island, about 130 miles (209 km) south-southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The cannery was named after F. Howard Bailey who was the company...
