Ivishak River

The Ivishak River is a convert|95|mi|km|0|sing=on long river in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1404009 Ivishak River.] Accessed Aug 20, 2007.] Fed by [glaciers] at the headwaters, the Ivishak flows north, through the Philip Smith Mountains and the northern foothills of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and joins the Sagavanirktok River on the coastal plain south of Prudhoe Bay. [http://www.rivers.gov/wsr-ivishak.html Ivishak Wild and Scenic River] - National Wild and Scenic Rivers System]

On December 2, 1980, convert|80|mi|km|0|sing=off of the Ivishak was designated a National Wild and Scenic River. This designation protects the river from its source, including all headwaters and an unnamed tributary from Porcupine Lake, within the boundary of the Arctic National Widlife Refuge.

References

ee also

*List of Alaska rivers
*List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers