The Jennings River is a

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in far northern

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. It is approximately long. The river was named for William T. Jennings (1846-1906), a civil engineer who, in 1897, assessed various road and railroad routes from the Pacific Ocean to the Yukon.

Path

The Jennings River rises in the northern reaches of the Stikine Ranges of the Cassiar Mountains, at first running southwest, then turning northeast near the

Tuya Range The Tuya Range is a mountain range in the Stikine Ranges of the Cassiar Mountains in the far north of the Canadian province of British Columbia, near its border with the Yukon Territory and to the southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon, which is the nea ...

to enter

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at its southern end, just to the east of the estuary of the Teslin River; also joining the lake in the same area is the

Hayes River The Hayes River is a river in Northern Manitoba, Canada, that flows from Molson Lake to Hudson Bay at York Factory. It was historically an important river in the development of Canada and is now a Canadian Heritage River and the longest natura ...

. The lower reaches of the Jennings form the boundary of the

Nisutlin Plateau The Nisutlin Plateau is a sub-plateau, of the Yukon Plateau physiographic section, in northern British Columbia, Canada, extending east from Teslin Lake Teslin Lake is a large lake spanning the border between British Columbia and Yukon, Canada. ...

, which extends north into the Yukon along the eastern flank of Teslin Lake and to the west of the northernmost reaches of the Stikine Ranges; Simpson Peak is one of the few named summits in that region of the Stikines, and stands above the lower Jennings to the east of its estuary. To the south of the Jennings, west of the Tuya Range, is the

Kawdy Plateau The Kawdy Plateau is a plateau in northern British Columbia, Canada, located between the Nahlin and Tuya Rivers. It includes the granitic Atsutla Range and Nazcha Hills and the volcanic Kawdy Mountain. See also *List of plateaus in British Co ...

, which includes the small but rugged Atsutla Range, and southwest of which is the course of the Teslin River, which traverses the Kawdy, a subset of the Stikine Plateau, from south to north.

Ecology

Black Spruce is a major tree in the Jennings River watershed; here the species is near the western limit of its range.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

References

* Geological Survey of Canada. 1989. ''Economic geology report no. 23'' * C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Black Spruce: Picea mariana'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg, November, 2008
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{{authority control Rivers of British Columbia Cassiar Country