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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 ]
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]
Knik Arm begins at the Inlet's northern edge, near Anchorage, before heading north and east. It is about 15 miles (24 km) long, and at its upper end, receives the waters of the Matanuska River . West of Knik Arm is the delta of the Susitna River , the largest stream emptying into the inlet. [ 3 ]
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 .
Previously, researchers said the shallow waters of Upper Cook Inlet would work to diminish the power of a tsunami wave. The findings from the study by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ...
The Biden administration has come under scrutiny for canceling three oil and gas lease sales -- including one off the coast of Alaska -- that otherwise might have led to additional drilling during ...
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 ...