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Sport fishing by contrast is open all year-long, [23] but peak season on the Copper River lasts from August to September, when the coho salmon runs. [24] [25] The fisheries are co-managed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) and the Department of the Interior Federal Subsistence Board.
Before 1900, Chitina was the site of large village whose population was slowly decimated by the influx of people, disease and conflicts. Copper ore was discovered in about 1900 along the northern edge of the Chitina River valley. This brought a rush of prospectors and homesteaders to the area. Stephen Birch homesteaded the site in 1908. [6]
The Chitina River (Ahtna Athabascan Tsedi Na’ [tʃɛ.diː.näʔ] < tsedi "copper" + na’ "river") [3] is a 274 km (170 mi) tributary of the Copper River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] It begins in the Saint Elias Mountains at the base of Chitina Glacier and flows generally northwest through the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and ...
The Alaska Current is a southwestern shallow warm-water current alongside the west coast of the North American continent beginning at about 48-50°N. The Alaska Current produces large clockwise eddies at two sites: west of the Haida Gwaii (" Haida Eddies ") and west of Sitka, Alaska ("Sitka Eddy").
The cost of the railway at $25 million was justified because the mines produced $200 million worth of copper ore during their operation of which at least 50 percent was profit. There were 129 bridges constructed between Cordova and Chitina. [6] As far as is known, the CR&NW was the only railway in Alaska to employ wigwags at railroad crossings ...
Gakona is located in the continental climate zone, with long, cold winters and relatively warm summers. Temperature extremes have been recorded from −62 to 91 °F (−52 to 33 °C). Snowfall averages 61 inches (150 cm), with total precipitation of 13 inches (330 mm) per year.
The Copper River and Northwestern Railway Bunkhouse and Messhouse are historic railroad worker facilities on Third Street in Chitina, Alaska.The messhouse is a single-story wood-frame structure with a hip roof, measuring 26 by 30 feet (7.9 m × 9.1 m).