Talk:Wild River (Alaska)

Possible wrong name?

Hey! Not sure if this is the appropriate place to do this but, when I attempted to find more information on Google, it showed me results for Alagnak River. Could Wild River simply just be another name of Alagnak RIver or are they 2 different rivers? ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 18:33, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

No, Alagnak River is down closer to the Aleutians in the southwestern part of the state. I wish we had as many sources as there is for that river. --ARoseWolf 18:52, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Ah ok. Then I'll amend my google search to filter out results related to that river. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 19:00, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Only the first 2 results I found were relevant. THe rest appear to be related to a book series titled "Wild River". ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 19:02, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Blaze The Wolf, try refining your search by adding "koyukuk" between "wild river" and "alaska". I haven't tried that yet but it may yield more results. --ARoseWolf 19:12, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

NO results found and I doubt the Koyukuk River is the same river. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 19:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Reports from the blm, NPS recon of the area by plane, a report from the Department of Mining state of Alaska and Forest statistics from the USDA in 1971. --ARoseWolf 19:50, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Interesting

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I found this reference and thought it was interesting. Hope it helps : ) - jc37 20:13, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, jc37--ARoseWolf 17:10, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Idea

Hey! So I noticed that you have the coordinates for the river and it made me think of something, what if we searched for the coordinates? What results would that give us? ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 18:43, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

You know what I say about ideas? Yes! I'm for them. lol --ARoseWolf 18:45, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Cool! I have a feeling it'll most likely return results for whatever is at the location. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 18:55, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Probably not much but I did find some cool satellite views of the river and lake with detail I have never seen anywhere else before. --ARoseWolf 18:59, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Interesting. I'm fortunate enough to live in a town that basically marks where 2 rivers combine into 1 (or is it where 1 splits into 2? I can't tell). ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 19:01, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

That is interesting. It should be which ever way the water flows. Do the rivers flow into one or does one river split into two? --ARoseWolf 19:18, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

One of the reports I found also said that they used to believe that Tobin Creek, which is a creek I have actually bathed in regularly, used to be part of the Wild River and that the lake was just in the middle of the river. Since then the creek north of the lake was changed to Tobin Creek because it runs near Tobin Mntn. We have a few cabins up that way but most of the buildings are down at the foot of Sirr Mntn about midway along the lake to the west of. --ARoseWolf 19:16, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

You having bathed in Tobin Creek was information I did not need to know lol That's rather interesting although it does make sense. Rivers do change their course slowly over time. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 19:21, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, probably a little tmi but it is an experience I think everyone should have at least once. The water is slightly above freezing most of the summer and freezes over during winter, obviously. Anyway, my Papa always told me I talk too much. I think it's more they just thought the river started further north and flowed down, pooled in this lake created by a glacier and then continued flowing down to the Koyukuk. I guess mineralogy changed all that, determined that Wild River formed separate from Tobin Creek possibly, idk. --ARoseWolf 19:31, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

HOnestly, what I love about where I live is that regardless of which direction you go to leave town, you'll drive over one of the rivers. You can usually tell when it's rather dry by how visible the sandbars are in the river (or how not visible they are) ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 19:36, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

I love where we live, we can watch all the wild life coming down from the mountains and up through the valley to the lake. The snow drifts get pretty deep though during winter. The wind blows the snow up from the flats into the valley which acts like a wind tunnel. --ARoseWolf 20:08, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

I would probably be able to see something similar (although not as pretty because I live in the Sandhills areas of Nebraska) if I lived further into the rural areas of town. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#0001} 20:11, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Mining

There seems to be a lot of information about mining. If you go across the lake to the east side and right about where the air strip is you can find old sections of the sluices they used during mining. Most of the locations where "mining" happened were placer deposits along the creeks and rivers. I could probably write an article on Mining along the Wild River alone but I'm pretty sure that's not notable enough. There were never any really big lodes found. Just a steady amount over time. Now they don't even mine anymore which is good. The land can return to being wild. The most we get are kayakers and the occasional hunter/adventurist. --ARoseWolf 19:44, 23 September 2021 (UTC)