Chugach National Forest

Chugach National Forest
Chugach National Forest
IUCN Category VI (Managed Resource Protected Area)
Map showing the location of Chugach National Forest
Location of Chugach National Forest in Alaska
Location Alaska, USA
Nearest city Anchorage, AK
Coordinates 61°15′00″N 149°19′00″W / 61.25°N 149.3166667°W / 61.25; -149.3166667Coordinates: 61°15′00″N 149°19′00″W / 61.25°N 149.3166667°W / 61.25; -149.3166667
Area 5.4 million acres (23,000 km²)
Established July 23, 1907
Governing body U.S. Forest Service
The Chugach National Forest surrounds Prince William Sound and is very mountainous.

The Chugach National Forest is a 5.4 million acre (23,000 km²) United States National Forest in south central Alaska. It is located in the mountains surrounding Prince William Sound including the eastern Kenai Peninsula and the delta of the Copper River. It is the second-largest (third-largest if the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is considered as one entity) forest in the U.S. national forest system, and is the northernmost national forest. The Chugach National Forest envelops Prince William Sound and is surrounded by the Chugach Mountains. It was originally designated in 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt and was originally 23 million acres (93 000 km²) in size. Approximately one-third of the area of the forest is rocks and ice. The supervisor's office is located in Anchorage. There are local ranger district offices located in Cordova, Girdwood, and Seward.

Though the Chugach forest is largely wild, with only 90 miles (140 km) of Forest Service roads, none of it is currently designated as wilderness.

In descending order of land area within the forest it is located in parts of the Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Anchorage Municipality, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Kodiak Island Borough, and Yakutat City and Borough. [1]

Ecology

The Chugach is a temperate rain forest in the pacific temperate rain forest region. Here the forest occupies only a very narrow strip between the ocean and the icy alpine zone. The dominant trees are limited to sitka spruce, western hemlock and mountain hemlock. This zone is known as the"sub-polar rainforest".[1]


Scenery of the Chugach National Forest
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Hiker on a slope in the Chugach forest  
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Alpine Lakes in the Chugach forest  
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Spencer Glacier, in the Chugach Forest  
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Alpine trees in the Chugach forest  

References

  1. ^ Temperate Rainforests of the North Pacific Coast (accessed 2007-05-16).

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