by CoastView | Aug 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jago River starts at an unnamed glacier on the continental divide of the Romanzof Mountains in the Brooks Range and flows north for about 90 miles (145 km) through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Jago Lagoon, about 88 miles (142 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Aug 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Rivers
Situk River starts at Situk Lake and flows southwest for about 18 miles (29 km) through the Yakutat Forelands in Tongass National Forest to Johnson Slough on the Gulf of Alaska, about 200 miles (322 km) northwest of Juneau and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Yakutat,...
by CoastView | Jul 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Freshwater, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
King Slough is a water passage between Farm Island and Dry Island in the Stikine River delta, about 22 miles (36 km) southeast of Petersburg and 11 miles (18 km) north-northwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The slough is about 5 miles (8 km) long from North Arm Stikine River...
by CoastView | Jul 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Rivers
Kenai River flows into Cook Inlet on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Anchorage and at the community of Kenai, Alaska. In June 1787, Stepan Zaikov on Saint PavelĀ of the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company established a post at the...
by CoastView | Oct 13, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Gualala River flows into the Pacific Ocean at the community of Gualala where the river represents the combined flow of three tributaries that start from elevations near 1,800 feet (550 m) in the Coast Range and drain a watershed of 190,719 acres (77,181 ha), about 92...
by CoastView | Jul 20, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
The Salinas River starts in the central California Coast Ranges and drains a watershed of 2.7 million acres (1 million ha), flowing 175 miles (282 km) generally northwest to Monterey Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of Monterey and 3 miles (5 km)...
