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 | Jan 16, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical
Yale Glacier is a massive tidewater glacier in College Fjord of Prince William Sound that starts at an elevation of 9,270 feet (2,826 m) between Mount Cardozo and Mount Einstein in the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 17 miles (27 km) to Yale Arm,...
by CoastView | Jan 11, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Lobos Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco that drains urban runoff and underground springs, and flows intermittently west for 1 mile (1.6 km) from near Mountain Lake to the Pacific Ocean between Baker Beach and China Beach, about 5 miles (8 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 7, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Cowichan Bay is a community situated on the south shore of an estuary shared by the Cowichan and Koksilah Rivers that form an extensive tidal flat on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, about 26 miles (42 km) north-northwest of Victoria and 4 miles (6 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 2, 2021 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 1, 2021 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
Johns Hopkins Inlet is a fjord in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve that starts at the terminus of the Johns Hopkins Glacier and extends for about 10 miles (16 km) to the head of Glacier Bay, about 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Yakutat and 58 miles (93 km)...
