The Alutiiq language is relatively close to that spoken by the Yupik in the Bethel, Alaska area, but is considered a distinct language with two major dialects: the Koniag dialect, spoken on the Alaska Peninsula and on Kodiak Island, and the Chugach dialect, is spoken on the southern Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound.

The Air Force base was closed in 1993, and is kept in caretaker status by Anchorage-based Chugach Support Services.

Electricity is provided by Chugach Electric Association.

Surrounded by the Chugach National Forest, it is located 100 miles south of Anchorage, and 30 miles north of Seward on the Seward Highway along Upper Trail Lake.

Lake Louise is located between four mountain ranges: The Wrangell, Talkeetna, Chugach and Alaska Ranges.

The maximum grade of the pipeline is 145 %, at Thompson Pass in the Chugach Mountains.

Most of the land surrounding Prince William Sound is part of the Chugach National Forest, the second largest national forest in the U. S. Prince William Sound is ringed by the steep and glaciated Chugach Mountains.

The visitor center at Portage Glacier in Southcentral Alaska ( located within Chugach National Forest ) is named the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center.

The highest point of the Chugach Mountains is Mount Marcus Baker, at, but with an average elevation of, most of its summits are not especially high.

Weather permitting, the World Extreme Skiing Championship is held annually in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez.

The name " Chugach " is from an Eskimo tribal name recorded by Russian explorers and written by them " Chugatz " and " Tchougatskoi ".

There is the Yukon Tanana Terrane ; Alexander Terrane ; Wrangell Terrane ; Chugach Terrane ; and Yakutat Terrane.

The Chugach Terrane is characterized by Slate and Graywacke from the Late Cretaceous with a interspersed and discontinuous layers of Chert, Gabbro, Tuff & Pillow Basalts that date to the Late Jurassic & Early Cretaceous.

Mount Palmer is a mountain in the Chugach Mountains in the U. S. state of Alaska.

The highest point on the highway is at Eureka Summit, which sits on the divide between the Chugach and Talkeetna mountain ranges.

# Alutiiq ( also Pacific Gulf Yupik, Pacific Yupik, Chugach, or Sugpiaq ): is spoken from the Alaska Peninsula eastward to Prince William Sound.

The Chugach dialect is spoken on the Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound.

Katalla is located within the Chugach National Forest near Controller Bay and the Bering River at.

The Black Oystercatcher is a species of high conservation concern throughout its range ( U. S., Canadian, Alaskan, and Northern & Southern Pacific Shorebird Conservation Plans ), a keystone indicator species along the north Pacific shoreline, a management indicator species in the Chugach National Forest, and a U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service focal species for priority conservation action.

The Chugach people gave their name to Chugach National Forest, the Chugach Mountains, and Alaska's Chugach State Park, all located in or near the traditional range of the Chugach people in southcentral Alaska.

Chugach Alaska Corporation, an Alaska Native regional corporation created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, also derives its name from the Chugach people, many of whom are shareholders of the corporation.

* Chugach Alaska Corporation ( CAC )

In 1964, a tsunami generated by the Good Friday Earthquake destroyed the Chugach village of Chenega, Alaska.

* Chugach Alaska Corporation

* Chugach Alaska Corporation, an Alaska Native regional corporation

* Chugach Mountains, southern Alaska

The Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska are the northernmost of the several mountain ranges that make up the Pacific Coast Ranges of the western edge of North America.

Even so its position along the Gulf of Alaska ensures more snowfall in the Chugach than anywhere else in the world ; an annual average of over 1500 cm ( 600 in ).

* Chinook winds east of the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade Range in the United States and Canada, and north, east and west of the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, United States

The oil and gas extraction rights for the Katalla area were granted to the Chugach Alaska Corporation by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

The Chugach people are an Alutiiq ( Pacific Eskimo ) people who speak the Chugach dialect of the Alutiiq language.

It drains a large region of the Wrangell Mountains and Chugach Mountains into the Gulf of Alaska.

The Chugach is a temperate rain forest in the pacific temperate rain forest region.

You can explore the Historic Trail year-round on foot, by auto, or by rail between Seward and Knik, Alaska, especially in the Chugach National Forest on the Kenai Peninsula and Chugach State Park outside of Anchorage.

They extend 192 km ( 120 mi ) northeast from the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula to the Chugach Mountains.

Located in Prince William Sound, the CDP consists of the Chugach Alutiiq village of Chenega Bay, which was established only after the Good Friday Earthquake destroyed the original community on Chenega Island to the north.

The Chugach National Forest surrounds Prince William Sound and is very mountainous. The Chugach National Forest is a 5. 4 million acre ( 23, 000 km² ) United States National Forest in south central Alaska.

The Chugach National Forest envelops Prince William Sound and is surrounded by the Chugach Mountains.

The borough contains part of the protected areas of Chugach National Forest, Glacier Bay National Park, Glacier Bay Wilderness, Tongass National Forest, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness and the Russell Fjord Wilderness.

Two prominent features are a small general store and the Chugach Electric power plant, which powers about half of Anchorage.

Gwin's Lodge was built from spruce logs harvested from the surrounding Chugach National Forest.

Gold in the creeks draining from Chugach Mountains brought prospectors to this area in the late 1800s.

The Coast Mountains are part of a larger mountain system called the Pacific Coast Ranges or the Pacific Mountain System, which includes the Cascade Range, the Insular Mountains, the Oregon and California Coast Ranges and the Saint Elias and Chugach Mountains.

The fishing-based Chugach economy was badly affected by the environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.