by CoastView | Feb 16, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Oso Flaco Creek drains a watershed of approximately 7,400 acres (2,995 ha) consisting mostly of agricultural land before forming Oso Flaco Lake, now part of the Oso Flaco Lake Natural Area in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, and then flows into the Pacific Ocean, and about...
by CoastView | Feb 13, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Hastings Arm extends north from Observatory Inlet for 14 miles (23 km) into the Coast Mountains and ends at the mouth of the Kshwan River, about 23 miles (37 km) south-southeast of Stewart and 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Kitsault, British Columbia. Hastings Arm was...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
itsault River drains a watershed area of about 113,668 acres (46,000 ha), including the Kitsault Glacier that flows out of the Cambria Icefield and several smaller glaciers, and flows generally south for 23 miles (37 km) through the Coast Mountains to the head of...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Rincon Creek is a stream that starts in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Divide Peak at an elevation of 4,800 feet (1,463 m) and flows generally south for 10 miles (16 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Rincon Point draining a watershed of 9,352 acres (3,785 ha), about 12 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks
Barren Islands are the northernmost of the Kodiak Archipelago, located near Lower Cook Inlet between Stevenson Entrance to the south and Kennedy Entrance to the north, about 80 miles (129 km) north of Kodiak and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. Lower Cook...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Anyox is an abandoned mining community in the Coast Mountains at the mouth of Anyox Creek on Granby Bay in Observatory Inlet, about 79 miles (127 km) north-northeast of Prince Rupert and 37 miles (60 km) south of Stewart, British Columbia. The name Anyox means...
