Beaver Creek (Alaska)

Beaver Creek in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge

Lower reaches of Beaver Creek

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The Beaver Creek is a 290 km long river in the Interior of Alaska. Its source is located about 80 km north of Fairbanks in the White Mountains, a mountain range of the Tanana Hills. It first flows in a westerly direction, then turns to the northeast, and after he has left the mountains again to the west and ends at Beaver in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in the Yukon River.

The headwaters of Beaver Creek, 204 km in the recreation reserve White Mountains National Recreation Area and 26 km in the Wildlife Refuge, was established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act as a National Wild and Scenic River under the administration of the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reported.

2009 Beaver Creek has been set for the planned development of oil and gas resources of the organization American Rivers at number 8 of the most endangered rivers in the United States.

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