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View across Cook Inlet at low tide from downtown Anchorage, Alaska (September 2005) The Cook Inlet beluga whale is a genetically distinct and geographically isolated stock. [26] The population fell to 278 in 2005 and it is listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [27]
The Cook Inlet Basin is a northeast-trending collisional forearc basin that stretches from the Gulf of Alaska into South central Alaska, just east of the Matanuska Valley. It is located in the arc-trench gap between the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith and contains roughly 80,000 cubic miles of sedimentary rocks . [ 1 ]
Cook Inlet with Knik and Turnagain arms. Turnagain extends in an east–west direction, and is between 40–45 miles (64–72 km) long. It forms part of the northern boundary of Kenai Peninsula, and reaches on the east to within 12 miles (19 km) of Passage Canal, a western branch of Prince William Sound.
The Eagle River is a stream, 40 miles (64 km) long, in Anchorage, Alaska. [1] Heading at Eagle Glacier in Chugach State Park, it flows northwest into Eagle Bay on the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of downtown Anchorage. [1]
Mount Susitna (background); Susitna River Delta (middle distance); Knik Arm (foreground) Port of Anchorage on Knik Arm Cook Inlet with Knik and Turnagain arms Mudflats on Knik Arm. Knik Arm (Dena'ina: Nuti) is a waterway into the northwestern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is one of two narrow branches of Cook Inlet, the other being Turnagain Arm.
An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal judge has ruled in ...
Captain Cook State Recreation Area is a park on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. [3] It is located on the shores of Cook Inlet at the northern terminus of the Kenai Spur Highway, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Kenai and 14 miles (23 km) north of Nikiski.
Jul. 8—A looming shortage of Cook Inlet natural gas means a majority of Alaska residents are likely to see a jump in costs in the coming years to heat and power their homes, according to a new ...