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The Kuskokwim River is the longest river system contained entirely within a single U.S. state. The river provides the principal drainage for an area of the remote Alaska Interior on the north and west side of the Alaska Range, flowing southwest into Kuskokwim Bay on the Bering Sea. The highest point in its watershed is Mount Russell.
Fresh-caught smelt (probably rainbow smelt), Kuskokwim River, Alaska, May 2008. Fish (neqa sg neqek dual neqet pl in Yup'ik and Cup'ik neqa or iqallug in Cup'ig) is one of the most common Yup'ik foods.
The Kuskokwim River is critical for subsistence fishing, but its king and chum salmon stocks have collapsed. Last year, the federal government allowed limited openers for rural Alaska subsistence ...
This section of the Kuskokwim river first had contact with non-Native explorers in the mid-19th century. Lt. Lavrenty Zagoskin of the Russian Imperial Navy explored the area in 1844. The village was known by its native name of Keledzhichagat at that time. It was used as a summer fish camp for residents of Kwigiumpainukamiut.
McGrath (Tochak’ [4] in Upper Kuskokwim, Digenegh [5] in Deg Xinag) is a city [6] [7] and village on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska, United States. The population was 301 at the 2020 census. [8] Despite its small population, the village is an important transportation and economic hub for the area.
Alaska State Troopers said two teens were riding a snow machine on the evening of Jan. 4 when they drove it into an open hole on the Kuskokwim River about 8 miles north of Kalskag.
Storm-battered residents in the western Alaska village of Napakiak were preparing for the third storm in a week Tuesday, days after a minister had to use a front loader to free people from flooded ...
Aniak is a Yup'ik word meaning "the place where it comes out," which refers to the mouth of the Aniak River where it flows into the Kuskokwim River. [10] This river played a role in the Placer Gold Rush of 1900–01, [11] when prospectors from Nome rushed to the Kuskokwim River Delta after hearing of discoveries [12] along the "Yellow River", later believed to be the Aniak River [13] because ...