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1970 Map of Bettles C-4

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Bettles C-4
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1988
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1988

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The Koyukuk River and the South Fork Kanuti River wind through a complex system of wetlands and meandering waterways in this 1970 interior Alaska survey. This portion of the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge is defined by the Kanuti Flats, an expansive marshland where the drainage patterns of Fish Creek and Peavey Creek create a shifting mosaic of oxbow lakes and seasonal sloughs.

Evidence of human presence in this wilderness is sparse, marked only by isolated Cabins and a lone Cabin situated along the riverbanks. Larger bodies of water like Hawzerah Lake and Minnkokut Lake break the intricate web of smaller streams, such as Fickett Creek and Hawzerah Creek, illustrating the seasonally saturated character of the Yukon-Koyukuk region before contemporary environmental shifts and modern conservation boundaries were fully established.