Mulchatna River (Alaska)
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- Work cat.: Nushagak & Mulchatna Rivers, recreation management plan, 1989:p. 3 (planning area stretches 200 miles from the headwaters of the Mulchatna River to Bristol Bay)
- GNIS, Dec. 18, 2002(Mulchatna River, stream, Dillingham (CA), Alaska, heads at Turquoise Lake, flows SW to Nushagak River, 65 mi. NE of Dillingham, Bristol Bay Low; Eskimo name reported as "Molchatna" by Ivan Petroff in the 1880 U.S. Census; shown as "Pahls-chat-nok or Mul-chat-na" by H.C. Fasset, USBF, on a 1910 manuscript map. "Mulchatna" reportedly conforms to the local pronounciation)
The Mulchatna River (Dena'ina: Vałts'atnaq') is a 160-mile (260 km) tributary of the Nushagak River in the U.S. state of Alaska. Beginning at Turquoise Lake, it flows generally southwest to meet the larger river 65 miles (105 km) northeast of Dillingham. The Mulchatna's mouth is slightly south (downstream) of the village of Koliganek on the Nushagak, which continues southwest to Nushagak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay. The upper 24 miles (39 km) of the river, which flow through Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, became part of the National Wild and Scenic River System in 1980. Aside from scattered cabins, the Mulchatna River is undeveloped. However, there is a proposal to build a large copper/gold mine, the Pebble Mine, in the watershed of one of the Mulchatna tributaries, the Koktuli River.
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