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    Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and is protected as the Saint Lazaria Wilderness. It is located in Sitka Sound, just south of Kruzof Island, and...
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    smallest they are the Forrester Island Wilderness, the Saint Lazaria Wilderness, and the Hazy Islands Wilderness. Also in Southeast Alaska, but not in...
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    territories include: Saint Lazaria Wilderness (formerly Saint Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge) (Saint Lazaria Island) Hazy Islands Wilderness (Hazy Islands)...
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  • The West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness in the United States. It encompasses 265,286 acres (107,357 ha) in Southeastern...
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  • Thumbnail for Sitka, Alaska
    National Wildlife Refuge (part of Gulf of Alaska unit) Saint Lazaria Wilderness (formerly Saint Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge) Sitka National Historical...
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  • The South Prince of Wales Wilderness is a wilderness area on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, protecting 90,968 acres of undeveloped Pacific temperate rainforest...
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  • Island's Kootznoowoo Wilderness are a unique environment among the 5,700,000 acres (2,300,000 ha) of federally-protected wilderness in Southeast Alaska...
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  • Thumbnail for Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
    The Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness are federally designated wilderness areas within the Tongass National Forest, located on Kuiu Island, Petersburg...
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    The South Baranof Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within the Tongass National Forest, located on Baranof Island, Alaska. Covering...
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    December 1980, 910,000 acres (370,000 ha) of the island was designated as wilderness. This area is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as...
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  • Thumbnail for Misty Fjords National Monument
    Monument (or Misty Fiords National Monument) is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National...
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  • The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting 111,889,002 acres (174,826.566 sq mi; 452,798.73 km2) of federal land...
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  • The South Etolin Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Tongass National Forest of Alaska. The designated wilderness encompasses 82,676 acres, including...
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    the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, designated by the United States Congress in 1990 Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness contains 653,179 acres (2,643...
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  • Thumbnail for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
    of the Arctic Wilderness, the third-largest designated wilderness area in the United States (after the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness and the Mollie...
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  • Thumbnail for Petersburg Creek–Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
    The Petersburg Creek–Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located on Kupreanof Island, Alaska, within the Tongass National Forest...
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  • Thumbnail for Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
    were designated as the Wrangell–Saint Elias Wilderness upon the park's establishment in 1980, the largest single wilderness area in the United States. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
    The Stikine-LeConte Wilderness is on the mainland of southeast Alaska, southeast of Petersburg and north of Wrangell, Alaska. The boundary extends from...
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  • Thumbnail for Selawik National Wildlife Refuge
    National Wilderness Preservation System, 240,000 acres in the northern part of the refuge are set aside as the federally designated Selawik Wilderness. With...
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    in 1980 and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness borders it to the northwest. Motyka, Roman J.; Truffer, Martin (2007)...
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  • designated wilderness area in the United States, after the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. It has an area of approximately 8,000,000 acres (3,200,000 ha)...
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  • and two state parks (Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park). The State CHAs comprise 923 square kilometres (228,000 acres) within...
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  • Thumbnail for Denali National Park and Preserve
    On December 2, 1980, 2,146,580-acre (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km2) Denali Wilderness was established within the park. Denali's landscape is a mix of forest...
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    Creek–Duncan Salt Chuck Pleasant/Lemesurier/Inian Islands Russell Fiord Saint Lazaria Selawik Semidi Simeonof South Baranof South Etolin South Prince of Wales...
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  • Thumbnail for Coronation Island (Alaska)
    There are no developed facilities and no groomed trails on the island. Wilderness camping is unrestricted and fishing and hunting are allowed. The nearest...
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  • Thumbnail for Noatak National Preserve
    Wilderness. The wilderness is the fourth-largest in the United States, following the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness, the Mollie Beattie Wilderness,...
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    Creek–Duncan Salt Chuck Pleasant/Lemesurier/Inian Islands Russell Fiord Saint Lazaria Selawik Semidi Simeonof South Baranof South Etolin South Prince of Wales...
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  • Thumbnail for Innoko Wilderness
    U.S. Wilderness Areas Wilderness Act Innoko Wilderness Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine - Wilderness.net Innoko Wilderness - Wilderness.net...
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  • Thumbnail for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    "The Problem of the Wilderness", a spirited defense of wilderness preservation in The Scientific Monthly, arguing that wilderness was worth saving not...
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  • Thumbnail for Togiak National Wildlife Refuge
    Wood-Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States. The Togiak Wilderness occupies 2,274,066 acres (920,282 ha) in the northern half of the refuge...
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