Black/Liard River Junction

This is a picture of the Black River's confluence with the Liard River John took from the airplane on his flight in. You are looking essentially downstream on the Black towards the Liard, which flows from right to left in the picture. The river coming up from the lower right towards the center is the Black River. This looks like the Black confluence as it is shown on the topo map, (future link) with the river's junction a bit above and to the left of picture center.

The actual confluence in 1997 was off the picture to the left. The Black has that fairly straight section, then swings left a little after it passes the pond on the right. On the map it curves back right again, then goes just a short distance into the Liard, but it is obvious here that the channel in question is now well overgrown gravel with no water in it. At that point the river now turns more left into a newly cut channel (downstream of a narrow one marked on the map) and parallels the Liard for a couple of kilometers before actually meeting that river. You can see glimpses of water in the new channel through the trees to the left of where the gravel dam forces the river that direction. I've put a blow-up of that section in the lower left corner of the picture, the same place is just above it in the big picture. the

The Liard looks very big in this view but is about 10,000 cfs (280 m³/s) here. The low gradient and wide Liard Plain allows it to take up a lot of space between the banks.

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