by CoastView | Dec 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Rolph, or Ralph Slough is a tidal creek in an area of grass meadows and numerous unnamed sloughs that cut through vast mud flats on the left bank near the mouth of the Nushagak River at Nushagak Point, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Naknek and 6 miles (10...
by CoastView | Dec 2, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Point Reyes Station is a community situated on the San Andreas Rift Zone at the head of Tomales Bay near the tidal estuary of Lagunitas Creek, about 29 miles (47 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.5 miles (6 km) southeast of Inverness, California. Point Reyes...
by CoastView | Dec 1, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Klawock is a community on the estuary of the Klawock River on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Craig, Alaska. The Klawock River...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kongiganak is a Central Yup’ik community situated on the eastern bank of the Kongnignanohk River that flows generally south for 40 miles (64 km) through a watershed of 29,718 acres (12,026 ha) in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge to the western shore of...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Jack Bay is an estuary surrounded by the Chugach Mountains that extends southeast for 6 miles (10 km) from Valdez Arm in Prince William Sound, about 70 miles (113 km) northeast of Whittier and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Valdez, Alaska. In 1898, the bay was named by...
by CoastView | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mekoryuk is a community situated at the western entrance to Shoal Bay on the northern shore of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, about 153 miles (246 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 80 miles (129 km) south of Hooper Bay, Alaska. Mekoryuk is the only community on the...
