![]() ![]() From its headwaters in Canada's Yukon Territory to its mouth on Norton Sound, the Yukon sweeps in a great 1,976-mile arc across the interior of Alaska. ![]() This is the Yukon River, or the "Yuke," as it is known to intimates. Every so often there is a fish wheel turning slowly on the current in a bend and smoke from a solitary speck of seasonal human habitation on a nearby bluff, but most of the time you are more likely to see salmon, ravens or a berry-gorged black bear ambling along the shore. ![]() The river itself is steely blue and about a half mile wide, with a stately, seemingly unhurried pace that is belied by the roar it raises when obstructed by shoals, islands, or - in season - ice.īy late August many of the aspen have already been dashed with streaks of orange, and the sky is dark enough at midnight to reveal both stars and the aurora borealis. The river is forever cutting its banks and toppling the trees along the edge, and yet the horizon remains a continuous sweep of trees: birch, aspen, cottonwood, alder, and behind them dark spruce like the broken teeth of a comb. By Bruce Brown Bruce Brown is the author of "Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon." July 15, 1984 ![]()
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