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Alaska. Coordinates. 63°01′40″N 146°03′41″W. / 63.02788°N 146.06152°W / 63.02788; -146.06152. The Tangle Lakes (Long Tangle Lake, Lower Tangle Lake, Round Tangle Lake, and Upper Tangle Lake [1]) are a 16-mile (26 km) long chain of lakes connected by streams in interior Alaska. They form the headwaters for the Delta River .
Birding. The Copper River Delta, which extends for 700,000 acres (2,800 km 2 ), is the largest contiguous wetlands along the Pacific coast of North America. [13] [15] It is used annually by 16 million shorebirds, including the world's entire population of western sandpipers and the pacific flyway population of dunlins. [29]
Miller, 1899. The Alaska moose ( Alces alces gigas ), or Alaskan moose in Alaska, or giant moose and Yukon moose in Canada, is a subspecies of moose that ranges from Alaska to western Yukon. The Alaska moose is the largest subspecies of moose. [1] Alaska moose inhabit boreal forests and mixed deciduous forests throughout most of Alaska and most ...
The Taku is the Southeast Alaska's top salmon-producing river. Data from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game [10] notes that nearly 2 million wild salmon return to the river annually, including up to 100,000 Chinook salmon (king salmon), 350,000 sockeye salmon (red salmon) and 400,000 coho salmon (silver salmon), 50,000 chum salmon (dog salmon ...
Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game; Alaska Wildlife Troopers; The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS). The AST is a full-service law enforcement agency that handles both ...
April 13, 1977. Designated AHRS. May 20, 1975. Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge is a 2,200 acre (7.3 km 2) bird sanctuary, located within the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska and partially within the city limits of Fairbanks. It consists of wetlands, fields, and forests.
A fish wheel, also known as a salmon wheel, [1] is a device situated in rivers to catch fish which looks and operates like a watermill. However, in addition to paddles, a fish wheel is outfitted with wire baskets designed to catch and carry fish from the water and into a nearby holding tank. The current of the river presses against the ...
Kitoi Bay Seaplane Base. / 58.19083°N 152.37056°W / 58.19083; -152.37056. Kitoi Bay Seaplane Base ( IATA: KKB [2], FAA LID: KKB [3]) is a public use seaplane base owned by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and located in Kitoi Bay, in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] It is included in the National Plan ...