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enjoy Alaska’s wildlife in a variety of ways. Respect Respect ways. of variety a in wildlife Alaska’s enjoy
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front, keep your backpack on, protect your face and neck, neck, and face your protect on, backpack your keep front, reading these clues adds richness to wildlife viewing. viewing. wildlife to richness adds clues these reading
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on the beach. Others poke their their poke Others beach. the on
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and flow to reach exposed invertebrates invertebrates exposed reach to flow and
rookeries and calving grounds, and critical feeding feeding critical and grounds, calving and rookeries
food. Short-legged species run back and forth with water’s ebb ebb water’s with forth and back run species Short-legged food.
etc.) with you or in bear-resistant storage. bear-resistant in or you with etc.)
especially respectful of nesting and denning areas, areas, denning and nesting of respectful especially
Tideland tidbits: Tideland Shorebirds are well adapted to finding finding to adapted well are Shorebirds
poor. Always keep your belongings (backpack, food, fish, fish, food, (backpack, belongings your keep Always poor.
to stop feeding or act restless, give it more space. Be Be space. more it give restless, act or feeding stop to
along noisy streams, in thick brush and when visibility is is visibility when and brush thick in streams, noisy along Wildlife Viewing Fun Facts Facts Fun Viewing Wildlife with sounds. If your presence is causing an animal animal an causing is presence your If sounds. with
your chances of surprising a bear. Be especially alert alert especially Be bear. a surprising of chances your natural behaviors and try not to attract their attention attention their attract to not try and behaviors natural
(sing, clap, talk) while you travel to reduce reduce to travel you while talk) clap, (sing, noise Make Keep a Low Profile. Profile. Low a Keep Enjoy watching animals’ animals’ watching Enjoy
Traveling Safely in Bear Country Bear in Safely Traveling Wildlife Viewing Tips Viewing Wildlife
CORDOVA Wildlife Viewing Cordova: Alaska’s Hidden Treasure Guide From the shorebirds of Cordova to the brown A coastal fishing town tucked between mountains and bears of Kodiak Island, from the caribou of Cold marine waters, Cordova is surrounded by natural beauty and Bay to the whales of Unalaska, the South Coastal diverse abundant wildlife. Home to the world famous Copper segment of the Alaska Coastal Wildlife Viewing River wild salmon, millions of migrating shorebirds in spring Trail highlights dozens and thriving moose and bear populations, the region draws of wildlife viewing wildlife recreationists of all kinds. sites in and around Before the first European contact in the mid-1700s, these the communities of lands were the hunting and fishing grounds of the Chugach Cordova, and Eyak people. The Russians established a thriving Valdez, Whittier, trading post in the area in the late 1700s. American traders Kodiak, Sand Point, Chignik, Cold Bay, False Pass and military expeditions arrived after the U.S. purchase and Unalaska. Pick up community brochures of Russian America in 1867, and the development of along the coastal trail and check for Alaska’s South commercial fisheries and gold mining soon followed. Coastal Wildlife Viewing Guide in stores and online. Commercial fishing continues to be an economic mainstay in eastern Prince William Sound. Ferry service links Cordova and For more information on wildlife viewing across Alaska, neighboring communities, including Valdez and Whittier. visit www.wildlifeviewing.alaska.gov. For information on tours and lodging, consult the Cordova Chamber of Commerce. Visit www.cordovachamber.com or call (907) 424-7260. If you’re in town, stop by the visitor www.wildlifeviewing.alaska.gov center at 414 First Street. Photos Alaska Department of Western sandpiper cover ©Milo Burcham • Moose ©Cori Indelicato • Dunlin ©Bob Armstrong Black bear ©Mike Truex • Dusky Canada geese ©Sean Meade • Delta wetlands ©Ron Niebrugge Fish and Game All other photos © ADF&G. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Watch Our Wildlife
details: www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/safety. details:
independently of one another, resulting in a better grip. grip. better a in resulting another, one of independently Dusky Canada geese nest almost solely on the Copper River Delta River Copper the on solely almost nest geese Canada Dusky
the Alaska State Parks’ Staying Safe web page for for page web Safe Staying Parks’ State Alaska the
two halves of the hoof also move move also hoof the of halves two
first aid kit and a means of communication. Visit Visit communication. of means a and kit aid first
cups when weight is applied. The The applied. is weight when cups prepared for emergencies with spare clothes, a a clothes, spare with emergencies for prepared
footpads that act like suction suction like act that footpads companion, let someone know your plans and be be and plans your know someone let companion,
wild lands. For safety, take a guided tour or a a or tour guided a take safety, For lands. wild surrounding rubbery concave concave rubbery surrounding
of the Alaska Coastal Wildlife Viewing Trail are are Trail Viewing Wildlife Coastal Alaska the of hooves have hard, sharp edges edges sharp hard, have hooves
The mountains, trails, islands and waterways waterways and islands trails, mountains, The
their unique foot structure. Their Their structure. foot unique their
STAY SAFE! STAY
climb many predators thanks to to thanks predators many climb
plenty of space. of plenty
ungulates (hoofed animals), can out out can animals), (hoofed ungulates
private property and give hunters, anglers and others others and anglers hunters, give and property private
Agile climbers: climbers: Agile Mountain goats, shaggy sure-footed sure-footed shaggy goats, Mountain
enjoy Alaska’s wildlife in a variety of ways. Respect Respect ways. of variety a in wildlife Alaska’s enjoy
Be Considerate of Others. Others. of Considerate Be People use and and use People is a relatively more leisurely affair. affair. leisurely more relatively a is
at wetlands other than the main ones and their journey south south journey their and ones main the than other wetlands at Human food can also make animals sick. sick. animals make also can food Human
are more dispersed. No longer in a rush to breed, they may stop stop may they breed, to rush a in longer No dispersed. more are with food, which can cause trouble (it’s illegal too). too). illegal (it’s trouble cause can which food, with
for millions of shorebirds heading north but in the fall the birds birds the fall the in but north heading shorebirds of millions for animals. Doing so can cause them to associate people people associate to them cause can so Doing animals.
eats them first. In the spring the delta is an important stopover stopover important an is delta the spring the In first. them eats
Help Keep Wildlife Wild. Wild. Wildlife Keep Help Never feed wild wild feed Never
fight back. To learn more, visit www.alaskabears.alaska.gov. visit more, learn To back. fight
they may live up to eight years on the delta–unless a shorebird shorebird a delta–unless the on years eight to up live may they
and remain still. In the rare instance of a predatory bear, bear, predatory a of instance rare the In still. remain and
Tracking books and workshops will help you learn. you help will workshops and books Tracking densities as high as 5,000 clams a square yard. Slow growers, growers, Slow yard. square a clams 5,000 as high as densities
front, keep your backpack on, protect your face and neck, neck, and face your protect on, backpack your keep front, reading these clues adds richness to wildlife viewing. viewing. wildlife to richness adds clues these reading
small pink clams known as Baltic macoma. These clams reach reach clams These macoma. Baltic as known clams pink small
considering you as prey. For a defensive bear, lie on your your on lie bear, defensive a For prey. as you considering they live and when they passed through. Noticing and and Noticing through. passed they when and live they
in spring–Western sandpiper and dunlin (above)–favor (above)–favor dunlin and sandpiper spring–Western in
depends on whether the bear is acting defensively or or defensively acting is bear the whether on depends tell stories of wildlife: what they are eating, where where eating, are they what wildlife: of stories tell
invertebrates. The shorebird species that are most abundant abundant most are that species shorebird The invertebrates.
Look for Clues. Clues. for Look Tracks, droppings, trails and twigs twigs and trails droppings, Tracks, , play dead or fight back. The choice choice The back. fight or dead play , strikes bear a If
of mud too. Their prey are tiny and plentiful protein-packed protein-packed plentiful and tiny are prey Their too. mud of
collect a bit of food without a mouthful mouthful a without food of bit a collect pools and a wealth of food for birds and mammals. mammals. and birds for food of wealth a and pools and act defensively, especially if it has cubs or food. food. or cubs has it if especially defensively, act and
their bills when they probe to to probe they when bills their thermals for eagles and hawks. Low tides expose tide tide expose tides Low hawks. and eagles for thermals if a bear is surprised at close distance, it may feel threatened threatened feel may it distance, close at surprised is bear a if
shorebirds open just the tip of of tip the just open shorebirds energizes dragonflies and butterflies and creates creates and butterflies and dragonflies energizes , you may provoke a chase. Also, Also, chase. a provoke may you , bear a from run Never
for tasty morsels. Long-billed Long-billed morsels. tasty for wildlife species are most active. Midday warmth warmth Midday active. most are species wildlife
to it calmly. If it approaches you, stand your ground. your stand you, approaches it If calmly. it to
like sewing machines to search search to machines sewing like Time it Right. it Time Dawn and dusk are when many many when are dusk and Dawn
does notice you, face the bear, wave your arms and talk talk and arms your wave bear, the face you, notice does
bills up and down in the mud mud the in down and up bills
behavior; approach no closer than 100 yards. 100 than closer no approach behavior; you, leave quietly, keeping your eyes on the bear. If it it If bear. the on eyes your keeping quietly, leave you,
on the beach. Others poke their their poke Others beach. the on
areas. With whales, avoid causing them to change their their change to them causing avoid whales, With areas.
If the bear does not notice notice not does bear the If calm stay If you see a bear, a see you If . .
and flow to reach exposed invertebrates invertebrates exposed reach to flow and
rookeries and calving grounds, and critical feeding feeding critical and grounds, calving and rookeries
food. Short-legged species run back and forth with water’s ebb ebb water’s with forth and back run species Short-legged food.
etc.) with you or in bear-resistant storage. bear-resistant in or you with etc.)
especially respectful of nesting and denning areas, areas, denning and nesting of respectful especially
Tideland tidbits: Tideland Shorebirds are well adapted to finding finding to adapted well are Shorebirds
poor. Always keep your belongings (backpack, food, fish, fish, food, (backpack, belongings your keep Always poor.
to stop feeding or act restless, give it more space. Be Be space. more it give restless, act or feeding stop to
along noisy streams, in thick brush and when visibility is is visibility when and brush thick in streams, noisy along Wildlife Viewing Fun Facts Facts Fun Viewing Wildlife with sounds. If your presence is causing an animal animal an causing is presence your If sounds. with
your chances of surprising a bear. Be especially alert alert especially Be bear. a surprising of chances your natural behaviors and try not to attract their attention attention their attract to not try and behaviors natural
(sing, clap, talk) while you travel to reduce reduce to travel you while talk) clap, (sing, noise Make Keep a Low Profile. Profile. Low a Keep Enjoy watching animals’ animals’ watching Enjoy
Traveling Safely in Bear Country Bear in Safely Traveling Wildlife Viewing Tips Viewing Wildlife
CORDOVA Wildlife Viewing Cordova: Alaska’s Hidden Treasure Guide From the shorebirds of Cordova to the brown A coastal fishing town tucked between mountains and bears of Kodiak Island, from the caribou of Cold marine waters, Cordova is surrounded by natural beauty and Bay to the whales of Unalaska, the South Coastal diverse abundant wildlife. Home to the world famous Copper segment of the Alaska Coastal Wildlife Viewing River wild salmon, millions of migrating shorebirds in spring Trail highlights dozens and thriving moose and bear populations, the region draws of wildlife viewing wildlife recreationists of all kinds. sites in and around Before the first European contact in the mid-1700s, these the communities of lands were the hunting and fishing grounds of the Chugach Cordova, and Eyak people. The Russians established a thriving Valdez, Whittier, trading post in the area in the late 1700s. American traders Kodiak, Sand Point, Chignik, Cold Bay, False Pass and military expeditions arrived after the U.S. purchase and Unalaska. Pick up community brochures of Russian America in 1867, and the development of along the coastal trail and check for Alaska’s South commercial fisheries and gold mining soon followed. Coastal Wildlife Viewing Guide in stores and online. Commercial fishing continues to be an economic mainstay in eastern Prince William Sound. Ferry service links Cordova and For more information on wildlife viewing across Alaska, neighboring communities, including Valdez and Whittier. visit www.wildlifeviewing.alaska.gov. For information on tours and lodging, consult the Cordova Chamber of Commerce. Visit www.cordovachamber.com or call (907) 424-7260. If you’re in town, stop by the visitor www.wildlifeviewing.alaska.gov center at 414 First Street. Photos Alaska Department of Western sandpiper cover ©Milo Burcham • Moose ©Cori Indelicato • Dunlin ©Bob Armstrong Black bear ©Mike Truex • Dusky Canada geese ©Sean Meade • Delta wetlands ©Ron Niebrugge Fish and Game All other photos © ADF&G. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Watch Our Wildlife CORDOVA Wildlife Viewing Sites
RD. A ten-minute drive along Orca Road 1 ends at Orca Beach, CREEK Mt. Eyak a rocky mussel-encrusted shoreline at the head of Orca Inlet. POWER Queen’s Chair It’s also the site of the old Orca Cannery—now a private 1 5 Lake lodge—where surrounding waters offer consistent shore-side City of Eyak Sherman Glacier 2 Cordova sightings of harlequin ducks as they pry limpets and chitons
Sheridan Glacier from stones with their hard-tipped bills. Barrow’s goldeneyes Orca Inlet Scott River frequent these waters and black oystercatchers may be SHED ROAD Heney Peak 6 ROAD CABIN LAKE Saddlebag spotted on the beach in spring. In winter, look for long-tailed COPPER RIVER HIGHWAY 4 WHIT 3 SHERIDAN Lake ducks, scoters and, with a spotting scope, multiple species GLACIER ROAD of loons. Along Orca Road in late summer, salmon crowd the Sheridan River creek entrance at a primitive campground called Fleming Spit 9 8 (aka Hippy Cove). Chinook arrive from mid-June to mid-July Copper River Delta 7 10 and coho from late August through mid-September. Look for Critical Habitat Area pelagic and double-crested cormorants atop pilings near the Alaganik Slough power plant and sea otters with pups off shore. At night listen Copper River for sea lions barking from haulouts on channel markers. Delta paved road Wildlife viewing at the Cordova boat harbor 2 is a serene 1. Orca Road 0.5 hr* 6. USFS Gazebo 0.5 hr experience in quiet winter months and more perilous during gravel road summer’s hustle bustle. Long-tailed ducks, buffleheads, ------trail red-breasted mergansers, common mergansers, great blue 2. Cordova Boat Harbor 1 hr 7. Alaganik Slough Road 1 hr Map is for locator reference only, herons, sea otters and other species seek shelter in these not for navigational use. protected waters when the snow flies. Migrating shorebirds 3. Heney Ridge Trail 5.5 hrs 8. Haystack Trail 1.2 hrs Hiking Trails may be seen in May along the Breakwater Trail at the edge of the South Harbor. As commercial salmon fishing—Cordova’s Scenic Views main industry—heats up in summer, the harbor becomes 4. Hartney Bay 2 hrs 9. Saddlebag Glacier Trail 4.5 hrs Interpretive signs extremely busy. If you venture down, look for sea otters, Camping glaucous-winged and mew gulls, black-legged kittiwakes and 5. Crater Lake Trail 4.5 hrs 10. Flag Point 0.5 hr belted kingfishers but watch your step as fishermen lay their * Suggested time at location. nets out on harbor floats to repair. meadows and wildflowers including and viewing blinds overlooking richly productive wetlands. Canneries are in full swing and many chocolate lilies, columbines, Look for red-throated loons, horned grebes, northern pintails, gull species flock to the fish offal wild geraniums and common merlins, short-eared owls and northern harriers. This is the discharges, an excellent chance to paintbrushes make for a special trip. primary breeding area for dusky Canada geese and in spring hone gull identification skills. About 45 minutes into the hike is a and summer you may see ring-necked ducks, scaups and A hike on Heney Ridge Trail 3 splendid view of Eyak Lake. Those wigeons in ponds just before reaching the boardwalk. Other crosses a variety of habitats, each who complete the 2.6 mile hike to area birds include red-necked phalaropes, Arctic terns, and offering unique wildlife viewing the top are treated to spectacular greater yellowlegs. Listen for the “winnowing” of a snipe in opportunities. The trailhead is about views of the Copper River Delta and spring, a low whistling made by air flow through the male’s 5 miles from town along Whitshed Prince William Sound. Back at the tail feathers. In spring small fish called eulachon spawn in the lake, brown bears may be seen at river. Seals and sea lions follow these oily protein-packed fish Road, just shy of Hartney Bay. This Black bears often forage in berry patches and thickets. 4.1 mile trail (one-way) traverses Mile 7 at dusk—earlier on cooler up river and dozens of eagles and thousands of gulls feed in rainforest, muskeg (via boardwalk) and wetlands before it days—feeding on spawning sockeye in July and August and coho frenzied flocks. Check with ADF&G to find out if the eulachon climbs to sub-alpine habitat on the ridge. Look for spruce from September through November. Dusk in summer is after 11 p.m. are running, generally in May and early June. grouse, varied thrushes, winter wrens and Townsend’s warblers Cordova’s only highway, the Copper River Highway, cuts across a At Mile 19.2 is Haystack Trail, 8 a short (.8 mile one way) in the temperate rain forest. Northern pipits breed in the alpine diverse landscape inhabited by brown and black bear, wary but mostly boardwalk trail through spruce and hemlock to a knoll tundra and black bears use the alpine tundra in fall if berries abundant moose, swans, eagles, and many other species. The overlooking the Delta. Look for trumpeter swans, moose and are present. road normally runs 52 miles through the Copper River Delta to its occasional brown bears. In the distance is the Gulf of Alaska In May all eyes turn to Hartney Bay 4 where the annual terminus at Childs Glacier Viewing Site and the Million Dollar Bridge and Kayak Island where Russian explorer Vitus Bering first set Copper River Delta Shorebird Festival celebrates the largest but in 2011 a bridge washout at Mile 36 cut short the drive. Childs foot on these shores in 1741. The haystack-shaped hills are spring concentration of shorebirds in the Western Hemisphere. Glacier is still accessible by boat with several charter operators the tops of ancient mountains, near buried over time. available but as of print time in late 2013, no date had been set for Over 4 million migrants including western sandpipers, At Mile 25 Saddlebag Road heads one mile north to the start reopening the bridge. Check with the Visitors Center for the most dunlins, least sandpipers, whimbrels, short-billed dowitchers of Saddlebag Glacier Trail. 9 This 3.1 mile trail winds up-to-date information. The drive is still well worth making starting and several species of plover briefly touch down on the tidal through cottonwood stands and spruce before reaching a with the US Forest Service gazebo 6 at Mile 10. Nesting wetlands to rest and feed on a smorgasbord of protein-packed small glaciated valley and the outlet of Saddlebag Lake. The trumpeter swans are common; look for their grey-plumed young, marine invertebrates, like marine worms and macoma clams. far end of the lake in view of Saddlebag Glacier is a nice called cygnets, in summer. Horned Rufous hummingbirds, waterfowl, black bears, coyotes and spot for a summer picnic. Mountain goats may be seen on grebes are sometimes seen in spring. the occasional moose may be spotted on the tidelands as well. nearby cliffs. Watch for brown bears and woodland birds. Active beaver lodges occupy both Mid-July through August, many mew gulls and some Caspian Townsend’s warblers and goshawks have been spotted here. terns are frequenting the bay. At the end of Whitshed Road, sides of the road. The many songbirds Hartney Creek has large numbers of pink and chum salmon in in willow and alder patches along the The first Copper River bridge is at Flag Point 10 at Mile addition to black and brown bears, harbor seals, bald eagles highway proliferate as you near the 27. If you pull off the road and scan the cliffs, you may and occasionally river otters. river. Listen for fox and song sparrows, see mountain goats feeding on moss and lichens. Small hermit and gray-cheeked thrushes, roadside tributaries often have coho salmon running Power Creek Road follows the western shoreline of Eyak Lake, Wilson’s and yellow warblers and through November. Wildlife becomes more scarce beyond home to ten fish species including sockeye, coho and pink many other species in late May and the first two bridges but check the cottonwood stands salmon, cutthroat trout and Dolly Varden. Look for bald eagles, first half of June. along the sandy river banks for bald eagles and northern trumpeter swans, ring-necked ducks and scaups. River otters hawk owls. Several eagle nests can be seen from the road. Alaganik Slough Road 7 at Mile are often seen on the lakeshore. At 1.5 mile is the trailhead Ponds may harbor horned grebes, red-necked phalaropes 17 heads southeast about three miles for the popular Crater Lake Trail. 5 The trail is steep with and trumpeter swans. numerous switchbacks and wooden bridges but subalpine to a boat launch, kiosk, boardwalk The delta’s verdant wetlands