by CoastView | Mar 2, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, March 2025, Natural History, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rincon-Creek.mp3 Rincon Creek is a stream that begins in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Divide Peak, at an elevation of 4,800 feet (1,463 m), and drains a watershed of 9,352 acres (3,785-ha)...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/South-Ledge.mp3 South Ledge is a navigational hazard in Wrangell Narrows, a water passage that extends generally south for about 22 miles (35 km) between Mitkof Island to the east and...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Westport.mp3 Westport is a historic timber export community on the Mendocino coast, where lumber schooners were loaded using long chutes built across nearshore rocks, about 83 miles (134 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 22, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, February 2025, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Point-Wilson-1.mp3 Point Wilson is the site of a historic light station on the grounds of former Fort Worden, situated on a low, broad sand spit that extends northeast for 1.5 miles (0.8 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 20, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, 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...
by CoastView | Feb 18, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Cannery Cove is an embayment on the western shore of Pybus Bay in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness, on the southern coast of Admiralty Island, about 70 miles (113 km) south of Juneau and 24 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Kake, Alaska. The cove’s name was first published...
