Chitina, Alaska

• Medical groups back Alaska trauma bill
  

  Medical groups lined up Wednesday to support a trauma care bill. The bill would create a public account that supporters hope will steer major emergency rooms toward better funding for trauma services.

• Mixed forecast for Copper River salmon
  

  This year's Copper River salmon projections for sockeye and king salmon are a mixed bag for fishermen.

• Fish Board ordered to clarify Copper River dipnet decision
  

  Anglers try their luck while silver salmon fishing at Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage on Sunday, August 2, 2009.

• Judge: Board must revisit how it classifies dip-netters
  

  The ball, or salmon in this case, is back in the state's court. A Fairbanks Superior Court judge has ruled that the Alaska Board of Fisheries must revisit a 2003 decision in which the board reclassified dip netting salmon in the Copper River at Chitina as personal-use fishing, not subsistence fishing.

City Description

Chitina is a census-designated place (CDP) in Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 123. Chitina is located at 61°32′21″N 144°25′30″W / 61.53917°N 144.425°W / 61.53917; -144.425 (61.539033, -144.424881). Chitina is located on the west bank of the Copper River at its confluence with the Chitina River on the Edgerton Highway, and junction with the McCarthy Road. It is 85 km (53 miles) southeast of Copper Center and 106 km (66 miles) southeast of Glennallen. It is outside the western boundary of the Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve. In 1945, work had begun to convert the CR&NW railroad line, from Cordova to Kennicott, into a highway, but work halted with the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, leaving a significant gap between Chitina and the Million Dollar Bridge near Cordova. The rail route from Chitina to Kennicott is a roadway, the McCarthy Road. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 95.8 square miles (248.0 km²), of which, 84.6 square miles (219.2 km²) of it is land and 11.1 square miles (28.8 km²) of it (11.62%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 123 people, 52

City Contained By:

• Alaska
• Valdez-Cordova Census Area
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 248.12086097 km squared

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