Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness

Kuiu Wilderness
Overlooking Port Malmesbury in the Kuiu Wilderness on Kuiu Island, Alaska.
Map showing the location of Kuiu Wilderness
Map showing the location of Kuiu Wilderness
LocationUnorganized Borough, Alaska, USA
Nearest cityKake, Alaska
Coordinates56°17′18″N 134°04′59″W / 56.28833°N 134.08306°W / 56.28833; -134.08306[1]
Area60,581 acres (245.16 km2)
EstablishedNovember 28, 1990
Governing bodyU.S. Forest Service
Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
Map
LocationUnorganized Borough, Alaska, USA
Nearest cityKake, Alaska
Area66,812 acres (270.38 km2)
EstablishedDecember 2, 1980
Governing bodyU.S. Forest Service

The Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness are federally designated wilderness areas within the Tongass National Forest, located on Kuiu Island, Petersburg Census Area, Alaska. The 60,581-acre (24,516 ha) Kuiu and 66,812-acre (27,038 ha) Tebenkof Bay wildernesses are managed by the United States Forest Service as a single area—creating a 200-square-mile (520 km2) wilderness preserve covering the heart of the island.[2][3] Together, the two areas protect old-growth temperate rainforests rising from coastal estuaries to subalpine meadows more than 2,000 feet (610 m) in elevation, with a high point atop the 3,355-foot (1,023 m) Kuiu Mountain.[2][4]

Tebenkof Bay Wilderness was created by Congress and signed into law on December 2, 1980, as a provision of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.[5][6] The Kuiu was created by Congress and signed into law on November 28, 1990, as part of the Tongass Timber Reform Act.[5]

  1. ^ Kuiu Wilderness, Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference USFSPetersburg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kuiu Island Wilderness Areas Archived 2013-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Cape Decision Lighthouse Society
  4. ^ Kuiu Wilderness, Wilderness.net
  5. ^ a b What "Can I Do In Wilderness? Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and Wilderness on National Forests in Alaska", United States Forest Service.
  6. ^ "Tebenkof Bay Wilderness", Wilderness.net