by CoastView | May 15, 2023 | Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Diamond Creek starts at an elevation of about 1,000 feet (305 m) on the southern Kenai Peninsula and drains a watershed of 3,424 acres (1,386 ha) while flowing generally west for about 5 miles (8 km) from Diamond Ridge to the northern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 10...
by CoastView | May 11, 2023 | Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Speel Arm extends generally northeast for 9 miles (14.5 km) from the head of Port Snettisham to the mouth of the Speel River, and is the site of a hydroelectric facility powered by water from Crater Lake and Long Lake, about 95 miles (153 km) northeast of Sitka and 30...
by CoastView | May 10, 2023 | 2023, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers
Blacks Island is situated at the confluence of the Smith River and the Umpqua River, on the historic spur line of the Southern Pacific Railroad connecting Eugene with Coos Bay, about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) southeast of Gardiner and 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Reedsport,...
by CoastView | May 8, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Port Edward is a community located on the eastern shore of Porpoise Harbour on the Tsimpsean Peninsula near the mouth of the Skeena River, about 98 miles (158 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 9 miles (15 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The town site was...
by CoastView | May 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
McKeon Flats is formed by the Wosnesenski River that flows into Neptune Bay on the south shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Seldovia and 9 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. McKeon Flats was first published on...
by CoastView | May 2, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Siuslaw River starts at an elevation of 636 feet (194 m) in the Coast Range and flows generally west-northwest for 110 miles (177 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Florence, draining a watershed of 494,720 acres (200,206 ha), about 53 miles (85 km) west of Eugene and 43...
