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Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
Alerts and conditions
All clear. The managing agency, the National Weather Service and wildfire reporting show no current alerts.
History
The designation history for this site (every law, proclamation and order, and the administration behind each) is being researched and checked by the Library’s historians.
The Roosevelt connection
Protected by T.R.
- February 27, 1909: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Bering Sea Reservation (federal bird reservation). St. Matthew, Hall and Pinnacle islands, far out in the Bering Sea and thick with seabirds.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands - February 27, 1909: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Tuxedni Reservation (federal bird reservation). Chisik and Duck islands in Cook Inlet, nesting grounds for puffins, kittiwakes and murres.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands - February 27, 1909: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Saint Lazaria Reservation (federal bird reservation). A small volcanic island off Sitka where storm-petrels nest in burrows by the hundreds of thousands.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands - February 27, 1909: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Pribilof Reservation (federal bird reservation). Walrus and Otter islands in the Pribilofs; handed to the Bureau of Fisheries in 1910 and later folded into Alaska Maritime refuge.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands - March 2, 1909: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Bogoslof Reservation (federal bird reservation). A restless volcanic island in the Aleutians, Roosevelt's last bird reservation, made just before he left office.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · archive.kucb.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands
His proclamations and orders
- February 27, 1909: Executive Order 1037, “Establishing Bering Sea Reservation as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site absorbed into it.
Executive Order 1037 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - February 27, 1909: Executive Order 1039, “Establishing Tuxedni Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site absorbed into it.
Executive Order 1039 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - February 27, 1909: Executive Order 1040, “Establishing Saint Lazaria Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site absorbed into it.
Executive Order 1040 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - February 27, 1909: Executive Order 1044, “Establishing Pribilof Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site absorbed into it.
Executive Order 1044 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - March 3, 1909: Executive Order 1049, “Establishing Bogoslof Reservation, Alaska, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site absorbed into it. Bogoslof and nearby Fire Island lie in this unit.
Executive Order 1049 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations
What to see and do
Plan your visit
Check the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for current hours, fees and access.
Whose lands these are
These lands are the ancestral and present-day homelands of Native nations. A section on whose lands these are is being prepared with tribal review. In the meantime, Native Land Digital offers a starting point.
Pair it with
- Izembek National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 69 miles
- Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area NPS · 113 miles