Listen to Andre and Anika with this week’s Recreation and Road Report.
Road Conditions/Construction and Logging Activity:
- Middle ridge road is closed until repairs can be completed next year.
- The mainline, McCormick creek road, #6265, is washed out and impassable at mile post 13, just past the highbush lake road.
- The Highbush lake road, #50040, has a slide across it but is passable to high clearance vehicles.
- The Nemo loop road, #6267, has a slide across it but is passable to high clearance vehicles.
- Contracts are in the works but repairs will not happen until much later in the year.
- Please stay safe out there!
Anan Wildlife Observatory:
- The Anan Rangers are busy getting the deck and trail ready for the permit season. Rangers have seen a few black bears eating sedge and skunk cabbage as well as two brown bears so far. One of the black bears has triplets! Very exciting!
- The T3 students have been working with Explore.org to get the camera reconnected and ready for the season. Yesterday, cameras officially went live. Find the livestream feed on Explore.org!
- 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 for this week is as follows:
| For Permits to Visit Anan: | Requests Accepted | Permits Awarded |
| July 5 – 11 | June 23 – 29 | June 30 |
| July 12 – 18 | June 30 – July 6 | July 7 |
- For those who will need to purchase transportation to Anan, please contact an authorized guide directly for both passage and permits.
Recreational Reminders:
- The rec crew repaired the Yunshookuh loop campground road last week.
- Áax’w Sáani (Little Lake) cabin construction has begun. Expect short traffic delays on FS road# 6277.
- WCA crew is working on rec site and trails out the road on wrangell island. Getting site ready for the summer season.
- Thank you to everyone who showed up to Pats lake family Fishing day! Special thank you to the Department of Fish and Game and the WCA for helping make the event so great!
- Forest Explorers and Reading with a Ranger starts this week! The Rangers hope to see you there for some summer outdoor fun!
This announcement is courtesy of KSTK and your Wrangell Ranger District.
