Talk:Matanuska-Susitna Valley

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It appears that the majority of the information on this page was copied and pasted from this website:

http://alaskatrekker.com/matsu.htm

This website is not cited as a reference or listed in the external links section. --Rhall28 (talk) 20:24, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is a non-existent entry

There is no such thing as a Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

Whoever created this must have been conflating the name of the Borough with the name of the two valleys which comprise much of the Borough.

There is a Matanuska Valley and there is a Susitna Valley, but there is no "Matanuska-Susitna" valley. The Matanuska Valley is the fertile, somewhat-agricultural region ranging from the estuary of the upper Knik Arm to the Matanuska River headwaters 60 miles to the northeast, at the terminus of the Matanuska Glacier.

The Susitna Valley is a much different animal. It reaches from a broad delta near Cook Inlet, approximately opposite Turnagain Arm northward towards Talkeetna and then through several gorges and broad plains into the deep interior just south of the Alaska Range.

The Susitna Valley region is not agricultural, has none of the history, occupies a separate geographic complex and has little of the population base of the Matanuska Valley.

The nomenclature "Mat-Su" was coined only as a way of designating the region north of the Anchorage metro area, mostly used in early days by pioneering television weather-casters who used the expression to include the northern forecast perimeter of the Anchorage forecast area and was never a real geographic area.

This entry is sheer folly and needs deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.204.203.21 (talk) 08:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]