§ 02 — OVERVIEW
The Forrester Island Wilderness now contains a total of 2,832 acres and is managed by the Fish & Wildlife Service's Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. All of the Wilderness is in the state of Alaska.
In 1970 the Forrester Island Wilderness became part of the now over 110 million acre National Wilderness Preservation System. During the day you'll ask yourself how more than one million birds of 13 species could be nesting on Forrester Island Wilderness. But at night vast populations of Leach's storm petrels, fork-tailed petrels, Cassin's auklets, and rhinoceros auklets leave their underground burrows to feed in the ocean around the isolated islands of Forrester, Lowrie, and Petrel. An estimated 780,000 storm petrels nest on Petrel Island alone. These islands and numerous nearby rocks were established as a wildlife refuge in 1912, and were designated Wilderness in 1970. In 1980 they were added as a subunit of the 475,000-acre Gulf of Alaska Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, at the southeastern end of the state. Forrester Island itself lies under a heavy forest of spruce and hemlock with a few lodgepole pine and red cedar bordering open muskegs. In small ravines and in areas of windfall on this mountainous piece of land the thick scrub, a web of berry bushes and devil's club, discourages travel. The shoreline has many sheer cliffs and few beaches, as does the shoreline of Petrel Island, which is also heavily forested. The nearby Lowrie Islands lie essentially flat. To schedule your visit for the best time, avoid the spring nesting season. Almost all the available soil contains lengthy burrows, and one false step could end many of the lives developing within buried eggs.
§ 03 — CONDITIONS
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§ 04 — SIGNAL
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§ 01 — VITALS
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Thu
53°F
Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy
5 to 15 mph NW
Fri
53°F
Partly Sunny
15 mph NW
Sat
55°F
Mostly Cloudy
5 to 10 mph W
Sun
56°F
Rain Showers Likely
10 to 15 mph S
Mon
55°F
Rain Showers Likely
15 mph S
Tue
53°F
Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers
15 mph W
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