Lake Iliamna and Porcupine Island
- Description
- One facility is located on the shore of Lake Iliamna with
limited amenities; a second is located on Porcupine Island
within Lake Iliamna.
- Location
- Lake Iliamna, AK (southwest Alaska, approximately 250 miles
from Anchorage).
- Contact
- Ray Hilborn, Professor, 206-543-3587, rayh@u.washington.edu,
or Sharon Frucci, Administrator, 206-543-4270, sfrucci@u.washington.edu,
School of Aquatic
& Fishery Sciences.
- Acreage
- Iliamna: 2289 sq. km.; Porcupine Island: 5
sq. miles. Lakes Iliamna and Clark (Kvichak River system)
surface area is about 714,000 acres.
- Buildings
- Iliamna: 50' x 45' foot aircraft hanger, two-room
main cabin with kitchen, and two-story 10' x 15' foot
bunkhouse. Power is purchased from local utility. Porcupine
Island: four-room Panabode with kitchen, two-room Panabode,
laboratory facilities, generators, boat storage, and shop
facilities.
- Equipment
- Chevy suburban, pickup truck, two boat trailers, two
fiberglass and three aluminum boats (16 ft. to 24 ft.)
- Housing
- Porcupine Island: can accommodate seven people.
- Support
- Alaska fishing industry.
- Recent Usage
- Research: Counts on the Newhalen River (Salmon
escapement); base camp for lake work; staging area; salmon
biology (juvenile growth, adult spawning); limnology.
Instruction: On-site training of students for field
studies. Non-UW: University of Alaska, Dames &
Moore.
- Usage Fee
- Negotiable.
- Condition
- Good.
- Communication
- Telephone is available at Iliamna site; CB radio
communications at Porcupine Island.
- Access
- Iliamna: access by air and road. Porcupine
Island: access by boat and float plane.
- Unique Environment
- Caribou, foxes, rabbits, eagles, freshwater seals.
- Faculty/Staff
- Ray Hilborn, Tom Quinn (faculty), Chris Boatright
- , Tom Rogers (staff), School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences; Dan Schindler
(faculty), Zoology
