The management strategy for waters within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (YDNWR) is nearly identical to that seen ...

Thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), we now have decades of historic flood data that reveals what it really takes to flood a river in Maine. River flood gauges measure real-time river height, ...

Breakup has started on the Kuskokwim River in front of the upper-river community of Nikolai. Ice broke during the 8 a.m. hour on Tuesday, according to the Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center ...

Thousands of rainbow smelts arrived in Bethel on the evening of May 21 on their annual migration up the Kuskokwim River to ...

In Western Alaska’s Kuskokwim River, site of devastating salmon crashes and federal-state management disputes in recent years, fish returns showed some positive glimmers this year, according to ...

May 10—Communities along the Lower Kuskokwim River flooded this week as a spring breakup ice jam backed up water to the highest levels reported in nearly 20 years, authorities said.

An ATV driver splashes their way through floodwaters along the Kuskokwim River shoreline in Bethel ... stone for ongoing and future efforts by USGS, Alaska State Coastal Hazards Program, National ...

Emeritus biologist Craig Ely of the USGS Science Center in Anchorage ... King Salmon, the Yukon and Kuskokwim river deltas, Kotzebue Sound and the Colville River delta. Ely handled many of those ...

Once they destroy our land, there won’t be any more.” The lifeblood of the region is the Kuskokwim River, extending 724 miles from deep in the Alaskan interior to the rugged Bering Sea.

“We’re falling into the Kuskokwim River,” Benedict explained, because of erosion that is forcing everyone to move their town further inland.But for one day earlier this month, the Alaska ...