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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 ...
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]
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.
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The stream heads in Nizina Glacier, flows southward about 16 miles (26 km) to a point near the mouth of Dan Creek, where it takes an easterly course, which it follows for about 16 miles (26 km) to its junction with the Chitina. It drains an area of 1,240 square miles (3,200 km 2) and is nearly as large as the Chitina at their junction. For the ...
Nov. 3—Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley largely escaped the effects of freezing rain forecast overnight into Friday, but colder temperatures and a chance of snow are headed for much of ...
Easily accessible from Fairbanks, the Chena is the most popular sport-fishing river in interior Alaska. [3] Overfishing for grayling reduced their number in the Chena to "dangerous levels" by the mid-1980s. In the 21st century, sport fishing for grayling, which grow in length to 18 inches (46 cm) in the upper river, is limited to catch and release.