(Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-005389, Panning gold during the Klondike Gold Rush) Gold had been discovered in the Yukon Territory, in a tributary of the Klondike River.

Tyler Bradt, Aniol Serrasolses, and brothers Todd and Brendan Wells paddled nearly 300 miles of continuous whitewater on Idaho's Salmon River tributaries ... came on the Yukon, first by Ian ...

Monitoring along the Klukshu River, a tributary of the Alsek, whose headwaters are in the Yukon, shows that the number of coho increased by about 600 per cent compared to the historical average.