I n Southeast Alaska, along the inside passage, lies 17 million acres called the Tongass National Forest. It has been ruled by four nations and was the original gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. W ith snow still covering the river banks and the cottonwoods still bare, springtime comes to the thawing Stikine River.
Ice floes crack and break, then slowly make their way into the shallow waters of the delta.
The Stikine Delta, a major flyway and estuary, hosts a variety of migrating birds on their way north. Sandpipers, ducks, geese, and Sand hill Cranes are just a few. L earn about the rich history of Wrangell and the Stikine River. See where the first airplanes touched down on Alaskan soil during the New York to Nome flight in 1920. The site where Stikine River City was built during the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.