Bear Lake (Alaska)
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Bear Lake is near the town of Seward and Resurrection Bay, in the Kenai Peninsula Borough on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Bristol Bay Basin on the Alaska Peninsula and the site of salmon enhancement activities since 1962.[1] Current projects at Bear Lake focus on increasing sockeye and coho salmon by controlling species that are predators and competitors.
There are more than three million lakes in Alaska,[2] and the Bear Lake Formation, in particular, is providing scientists with important geological information. For example, evidence has been found that suggests the Miocene-period formation was formed in a shallow marine environment and was not a warm water environment.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Project Bear Lake. Retrieved on 2007-02-03.
- ^ Alaska Facts. Retrieved on 2007-02-03.
- ^ Initial Report on Decapod Crustaceans from the Miocene Bear Lake Formation, Alaska. Retrieved on 2007-02-03.
[edit] External links
- Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association - Projects: Bear Lake
- Reservoir Characterization of the Bear Lake and Milky River Formations, Bristol Bay Basin, Alaska Peninsula
- Maps and aerial photos
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