Mollie Beattie Wilderness

{{Short description|Wilderness area in Alaska, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox Protected area

| name = Mollie Beattie Wilderness

| iucn_category = Ib

| map = USA Alaska |relief=1

| map_caption = Map of the United States

| location = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

| nearest_city = Kaktovik, Alaska

| coordinates = {{coord|69|00|53|N|143|12|50|W|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| area = {{convert|8000000|acre|ha}}

| established = {{start date|1980}}

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| governing_body = United States Fish and Wildlife Service

}}

The Mollie Beattie Wilderness is located in the northeastern section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is the second-largest designated wilderness area in the United States, after the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. It has an area of approximately {{convert|8000000|acre|ha}}, and comprises over 40 percent of the area of Arctic NWR. Its territory is centered about a part of the Brooks Range that contains a combination of arctic, subarctic, and alpine ecosystems. Animal life is abundant, including that of large mammals such as brown bears, moose, caribou, musk oxen, and (offshore) polar bears and numerous species of whales and seals.[http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=364 Mollie Beattie Wilderness] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016091841/http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=364 |date=2012-10-16 }} Wilderness.net The wilderness is named after conservationist Mollie Beattie, the first female director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.