Misty Fjords National Monument
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed over 2,200,000 acres as the Misty Fiords National Monument. In 1980, this acreage got reduced to 2,142,243 acres but was now congressionally designated as Misty Fiords National Monument Wilderness and still remains the largest wilderness area on the Tongass National Forest.
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Rudyerd Inlet - Punch Bowl Cove To Right
Some 14,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene, all but the very highest peaks were covered in ice- by some 9,000 years ago the glaciers had started retreating.
