Fishing and Safety: Rapid Melt and Wild Rivers
Welcome to Green-Up in Interior Alaska everyone. With that said, I'm here to write about the rapid melt that is happening and causing quite a bit of commotion through the Interior region. First to speak of on this is what rapid melt causes. In the Interior, we had a record amount of snow. The highest point on the measure was 100" of snow. That's three full feet over your average person and still enough snow to bury Shaq. Even in a normal scenario, it is not uncommon to get 3-5 feet of snow a year. All this snow has to go somewhere in the spring and summer. When rapid heat moves in afterwards, this snow melts, causing a trickling effect. I use those words in that place because if you were to go up to the high points, and it's the end of May right now, you would see big blogs of snow with trickling streams of water coming from underneath it. These trickling streams merge, then merge again, and eventually dump into the river, caus...