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Copper River

American  

noun

  1. a stream in S Alaska, flowing through the SE part. 300 miles (483 km) long.


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Without federal protections on the Copper River, Ahtna anglers would risk getting “pushed out,” according to John Sky Starkey, a lawyer representing Ahtna.

From Salon Dec. 28, 2023

Ahtna Inc., a corporation owned by Indigenous shareholders in the Copper River region — some 500 miles east of the Kuskokwim — has also sided with the Biden administration.

From Salon Dec. 28, 2023

But most fish isn’t Copper River salmon, whose annual arrival has become something of a signpost that Seattle’s dreary months might finally start to give way.

From New York Times May 28, 2021

The Copper River drains off the Wrangell and Chugach mountains in southcentral Alaska, east of Anchorage, feeding once-abundant salmon fisheries as it coursed through major points of the territory’s history.

From Seattle Times May 22, 2021

Then he pointed to a spot nearby where the blue line of the Copper River curved north.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

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