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A fish wheel, also known as a salmon wheel, 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.
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]
Copper Falls State Park is a 3,068-acre (1,242 ha) state park in Wisconsin. The park contains a section of the Bad River and its tributary the Tylers Forks, which flow through a gorge and drop over several waterfalls. Old Copper Culture Indians and later European settlers mined copper in the area. The state park was created in 1929 and ...
Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines. [3] It is located beside the Kennicott Glacier, northeast of Valdez, inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Copper Rockfish are a viviparous fish giving birth to live young after a gestation period of around 10 months. They are a long-lived fish reaching ages of over forty years old with the oldest known individual being 55 years old. Copper Rockfish are a modest fish reaching a maximum size of 58 centimetres (23 in) TL and a weight of 2,740 grams (6 ...
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The Coppermill Stream is a short waterway near Walthamstow in the Lea Valley. Originally a minor tributary of the River Lea, the approximately 2-mile (3.2 km) long stream is now used as an aqueduct to transport water from the reservoirs in the Lea Valley to Coppermills Water Treatment Works. The stream is part of a Site of Metropolitan Importance.
Tazlina River. / 62.01056°N 146.23639°W / 62.01056; -146.23639. / 62.03861°N 145.38722°W / 62.03861; -145.38722. The Tazlina River is a 30-mile (48 km) tributary of the Copper River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Draining Tazlina Lake, it flows generally east to meet the larger river 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Glennallen.
The Gulkana River[pronunciation?] is a 60-mile (97 km) tributary of the Copper River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Beginning near the southeastern end of Summit Lake in the Alaska Range, the river flows generally south to meet the larger river 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Glennallen. [1] The Richardson Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline ...
The copper redhorse ( Moxostoma hubbsi) is a North American species of freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae . It is found only in Canada . Its extremely small range, which is restricted to a few rivers in the lowlands of southwestern Quebec, has contracted significantly in the past few decades. Confirmed populations currently exist in the ...