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Misty Fjords National 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 Forest. Misty Fiords is about 40 miles (64 km) east of Ketchikan, Alaska , along the Inside Passage coast in extreme southeastern Alaska , comprising 2,294,343 ...
July 24, 2007: A Taquan de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, registration number N995WA, was conducting an aerial tour of the Misty Fjords when it struck a mountain at an altitude of about 2,500 feet (760 m) above mean sea level (MSL), killing the pilot and four passengers aboard. The pilot of another aircraft that had flown the same route shortly ...
The island's lush, towering cathedrals of old-growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock, rising out of a blanket of ferns on the forest floor, could not be more different from the glaciers and frozen alpine tundra found elsewhere in the state or other close-by areas (such as Tracy Arm or Misty Fjords National Monument).
On December 1, 1978 President Jimmy Carter proclaimed a portion of the Tongass National Forest to be Misty Fjords National Monument, which included New Eddystone Rock. [7] In 1980 Congress enacted the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act , which provided wilderness protection to most of the national monument. [ 8 ]
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The Ketchikan Misty Fjords Ranger station. As of 2010, there were 8,050 people, 3,259 households, and 1,885 families residing in the city. As of 2017, the population density was 1,829.5 per square mile (714.1/km 2). [17] There were 3,731 housing units at an average density of 848.0 per square mile (327.4/km 2).
Lava Fork is a creek in northwestern British Columbia, Canada and the Alaska Panhandle, United States.It lies west of the Unuk River and northwest of Stewart.It flows south from the Lava Lakes across the British Columbia-Alaska border into the Blue River [1] [2] in the extreme northern part of Misty Fjords National Monument.
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4.9 million acres (20,000 km 2), of which 2.64 million acres (10,700 km 2) is wilderness.