Here is your Recreation and Road Report for the week of June 23rd through 27th.
Road Conditions/Construction and Logging Activity:
- Logging activities and log haul continue from the Upper Basin area-Yoder Timber Sale to FS road number 6263 into the industrial park in Wrangell-Matney Lumber.
- Logging and log haul from the Fool’s Inlet area-Wrangell Island #1 Timber Sale may be occurring from FS road 6270.
- Middle Ridge Road FS #50060 is still closed.
Anan Wildlife Observatory:
- Anan Wildlife Observatory permit season starts July 5th. There are still permits available for most days on recreation.gov if you have your own boat/floatplane to get there.
- If there are no more permits available on recreation.gov for the day you are interested in, 4 permits each day are available through weekly lotteries.
- All lottery requests must be made in person at the Wrangell Ranger District office. Weekly requests will be collected by Mondays at 4:30 and awarded on Tuesdays by noon.
The Request Schedule is as follows:
| For Permits to Visit Anan: | Requests Accepted | Permits Awarded |
| July 5 – 11 | June 24 – 30 | July 1 |
| July 12 – 18 | July 1 – 7 | July 8 |
The Anan Wildlife Observatory explore.org cameras are live with 2 new views! Bears have been seen from the cameras already.
Recreational Reminders:
- Forest Explorers will be this Tuesday from 10:30 – 12:00 at the Nature Trail.
- Read with a Ranger at the Library this Thursday from 10:30-12. Kids are welcome to join for some fun activities!
- The Rec crew did an amazing job clearing and fixing the hot tubs trail for all the summer visitors!
- We had an amazing turn out this weekend for the annual Pats Lake Family Fishing Day! Thank you to everyone who came out and made the event so special!
- A reminder to please not wound trees while out in the forest. This causes trees to become sick and potentially hazardous later.
This announcement is courtesy of the Wrangell Ranger District and KSTK.
