Innoko Wilderness

Innoko Wilderness is a 1,240,000-acre protected area in southeastern Innoko National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, designated by Congress in 1980. It spans a transition zone where interior boreal forest gives way to western tundra, with a landscape shaped chiefly by muskeg, marsh, lakes, rivers, streams, and scattered black spruce islands. This wetland-forest mix supports abundant wildlife, including more than 20,000 beavers, large mammals such as moose, caribou, bears, wolves, and lynx, and immense numbers of geese, waterfowl, and shorebirds. Along the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, privately owned subsistence camps used by Alaska Natives for hunting and fishing remain part of this long-important living landscape.

Flat, Alaska · United States