Chinchaga River oil and gas fields (such as Hamburg) and logging are developed in the area. Chinchaga River Chinchaga is a river in north-western Alberta. It is a tributary of the Hay River. Through the Hay River, its waters are carried to the Arctic Ocean via Great Slave Lake and Mackenzie River. The name Chinchaga is First Nations, and means "Big Wood River". Much of the Chinchaga watershed burned in 1950 during the Chinchaga fire. Chinchaga River originates in the Chinchaga Lakes, a series of small lakes in the muskeg of north-eastern British Columbia, at an elevation of 795 m. It flows
Lake Creek (Siuslaw River) Lake Creek (Siuslaw River) Lake Creek is a major tributary of the Siuslaw River in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. On average, the long creek contributes about a third of the lower Siuslaw's water volume. Beginning near Prairie Mountain near the Lane–Benton county border in the Central Oregon Coast Range, Lake Creek flows generally southeast through the Siuslaw National Forest to the vicinity of Horton, then southwest through the communities of Blachly, Triangle Lake, Greenleaf, and Deadwood. It enters the Siuslaw River at Swisshome, by water from the larger stream's mouth on the Pacific Ocean at Florence.