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Ecosystem description. Place to keep adding what can be found https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228661117_Risk_Factors_and_Mortality_of_Black-Tailed_Deer_in_a_Managed_Forest_Landscape https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92534/milky-blue-water-near-prince-of-wales-island

What geological processes are actively affecting the region? In the last 100 years the most activity that could be measured at or nearby Heceta Island, which is not caused by humans, is tectonic activity. Here is a summary of that activity.

Heceta Island has 5 volcanos nearby Glacial activity ReferencesKovarik, J. (2009, Aug 2). Karst and caves in Southeast Alaska. National Speleological Society. Retrieved from: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd530375.pdf

Chuck Creek is an ancestral water source for people that lived in the Warm Chuck Inlet. This area is one of the wetter climates of our country with an average annual precipitation of 138”. Chuck Creek is an outlet that flows from Chuck Lake.

Bruna De Heceta explored Southeast Alaska in 1775 as lieutenant acting as captain on the Santiago (Bancroft, 1886, p.197). The Island is listed as being named in 1879 by William Healey Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (GNIS Detail, 1981). I could not find an original source for this.  Browsing through “The works

Here is a clip that starts centered on the Chuck Creek watershed area, then zooms out, showing the entire planet. This image shows a callout of Heceta Island from Alaska. The article is comes from is: Risk Factors and Mortality of Black‐Tailed Deer in a Managed Forest Landscape – Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: