Hoodoo River
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| name = Hoodoo River
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| pushpin_map = British Columbia
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| pushpin_map_caption = Mouth of Hoodoo River
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| subdivision_name1 = Canada
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| subdivision_name2 = British Columbia
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| subdivision_name3 = Cassiar Land District
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| discharge1_avg = {{convert|8.82|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}
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| source1 = Hoodoo Glacier
| source1_location = Boundary Ranges
| source1_coordinates = {{coord|56|47|3|N|131|21|31|W|display=inline}}Derived from BCGNIS, ACME Mapper, topographic maps, and [https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html Toporama]
| source1_elevation = {{convert|530|m|abbr=on}}
| mouth = Iskut River
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| mouth_elevation = {{convert|36|m|abbr=on}}Elevation derived from ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model, using [http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html GeoLocator], BCGNIS coordinates, and topographic maps.
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{{Short description|River in Canada}}
The Hoodoo River is a tributary of the Iskut River in the northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada, located west of Hoodoo Mountain and the Twin River in Cassiar Land District.{{BCGNIS|17514|Hoodoo River}}{{cite cgndb|id=JBFFA|title=Hoodoo River}} From its source in Hoodoo Glacier{{BCGNIS|17510|Hoodoo Glacier}} the Hoodoo River flows south for about {{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}}Length measured using BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, and [https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html Toporama] to the Iskut River northwest of the mouth of the Craig River.
The Hoodoo River's watershed covers {{convert|128|km2|abbr=on}}, and its mean annual discharge is an estimated {{convert|8.82|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}.{{cite web |url= https://nwwt.bcwatertool.ca |title= Northwest Water Tool |work= BC Water Tool |publisher= GeoBC, Integrated Land Management Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Government of British Columbia |accessdate= 22 September 2021}} The river's watershed's land cover is classified as 49.4% snow/glacier, 22.7% barren, 10.6% conifer forest, 9.8% shrubland, and small amounts of other cover.
The mouth of the Hoodoo River is located about {{convert|68|km|abbr=on}} east-northeast of Wrangell, Alaska, about {{convert|120|km|abbr=on}} northwest of Stewart, British Columbia, and about {{convert|134|km|abbr=on}} south of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia.
The Hoodoo River is in the traditional territory of the Tlingit, specifically the Shtax'héen Ḵwáan, commonly known as the Stikine River people.{{cite web |url= https://sfthcc.org/tlingit-clan-origin-map |title= Traditional Tlingit Country |publisher= San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council |accessdate= 22 September 2021}}{{cite journal |last= Lindley |first= Britany Kee’ ya aa |title= Solution Before Pollution: Mining and International Transboundary Rivers in Southeast Alaska |journal= American Indian Law Journal |volume= 6 |issue= 1 |date= 2017 |url= https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/ailj/vol6/iss1/6 |accessdate= 22 September 2021}} It is also in the asserted traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation and Iskut First Nation, of the Tahltan people.{{cite web |url= https://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/documents_staticpost/49262/89282/Chapter_30_Appendices/Appendix_30-A_Tahltan_Desk-based_TK_Report.pdf |title= Tahltan Nation Traditional Knowledge and Use Desk-based Research Report |author= Rescan Environmental Services |date= 2012 |publisher= Seabridge Gold Inc. |accessdate= 22 September 2021}}
Geography
The Hoodoo River originates from the meltwaters of Hoodoo Glacier, a valley glacier that flows from the Andrei Icefield which dominates the mountains north of the Hoodoo River and from which numerous glaciers extend in all directions. This large glacial field is named after the son of Olav Mokievsky-Zubok, a glaciologist who carried out significant glaciological work in the Coast Mountains from the 1960s to the 1970s.{{cite book|last1=Kargel|first1=Jeffery S.|last2=Leonard|first2=Gregory J.|last3=Wheate|first3=Roger D.|last4=Edwards|first4=Benjamin|title=Global Land Ice Measurements from Space|chapter=ASTER and DEM Change Assessment of Glaciers Near Hoodoo Mountain, British Columbia, Canada|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media|pages=353, 354, 355, 364, 365, 367, 371|year=2014|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_15|isbn=3-662-50130-9}}
From Hoodoo Glacier the Hoodoo River flows south along the west side of Hoodoo Mountain and through glacial meltwater lakes, then through a coastal western hemlock forest. About {{convert|3|km|abbr=on}} north of the Iskut River the Hoodoo River is joined by its main tributary, an unnamed stream flowing southeast from the glaciers of Surprise Mountain.{{BCGNIS|14021|Surprise Mountain}} From this confluence of the two forks, the Hoodoo River continues south through an increasingly braided channel before emptying into the Iskut River.{{cite web |url= https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=56.50065,-131.38083&z=10 |title= ACME Mapper 2.2 |publisher= ACME Laboratories |accessdate= 22 September 2021}}{{cite web |url= http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html |title= Toporama (on-line map and search) |work= Atlas of Canada |publisher= Natural Resources Canada |accessdate= 22 September 2021}}{{cite book |last1= Mussio |first1= Russell |last2= Mussio |first2= Wesley |title= Northern BC Backroad Mapbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBAFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51
|accessdate= 22 September 2021 |date= 2018 |publisher= Mussio Ventures |isbn= 978-1-926806-87-7 |pages= 73, 88}}