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La cuenca de Forbes Creek es una {{convert|1837|acre|adj=on}} cuenca hidrográfica cubriendo un cuarto de la área total de la tierra de Kirkland.{{sfn|Parametrix|2005|p=20}} Forbes Creek desemboca hasta Lake Washington en el barrio de Juanita. Veintidós humedales existen en la cuenca, constituyendo el número y área más grande de humedales de cualquier arroyo en Kirkland (no hay ningún río).{{sfn|The Watershed Company|1998|p=51}}

Especies invasoras de planta incluyendo la zarza himalaya están presentes en las cuencas de Kirkland.{{sfn|The Watershed Company|1998|pp=11, 21, 41, etc.}} Viburnum opulus introducido (posiblemente cultivado) crece sobre Forbes Lake.

File:Forbes Creek blackberries.jpg|La zarza himalaya invasora y acebo en el cauce del arroyo mezclados con sotobosque de salal y helecho de espada nativos debajo de alisos y cedros.

File:Forbes Lake cranberries.jpg|Viburnum opulus en la orilla de lago.

File:Wood chewed by beavers in Forbes Lake Park 2013.jpg|Árbol en Forbes Lake Park mordido por castores.

File:Lily Pad Snacks (14164546984).jpg|Castor en los nenúfares de la bahía.

Birdwatchers Juanita Bay 04.jpg|Observadores de aves en la orilla de Lake Washington en Juanita Bay Park.

The landforms and hydrology of the Eastside, including Forbes Creek, are due to the ice age glaciation.

Forbes Creek watershed displays every aspect of typical Eastside moraines described by Harvey Manning and Ira Spring, as an "'unorganized' geography on glacial moraine with bogs and creeks reaching lake level".{{sfn|Manning|Manning|Spring|2002}}

Forbes Lake ({{coord|47|41|09|N|122|10|47|W|type:lake}}) is a {{convert|7|acre|adj=on}}, {{convert|30|ft|adj=on}} deep kettle lake{{citation|title=Forbes Lake vital statistics|publisher=King County, Washington |work=Water and land services small lakes database|url=http://green2.kingcounty.gov/SmallLakes/LakePage.aspx?SiteID=61|accessdate=December 15, 2016}}"A Gift from the Ice Age" interpretive sign, City of Kirkland, 120th Avenue public access on southwest corner of lake. at elevation {{convert|246|ft}} above sea level.{{gnis|1504947|Forbes Lake}} The city is developing areas around the lake under a Forbes Lake Trail and Park Improvements Project of {{convert|16|acre}}. Wildlife in the area includes frogs and turtles in the lake; raptor bird species including hawks and bald eagles which use the tall trees around the lake; aquatic birds using the lake and surrounding wetlands include ducks and great blue herons; and mammals such as beaver, deer, and coyotes.{{sfn|Worthy and Associates|2009|p=4}}

{{Panorama| image = Image:Forbes Lake panorama 2013.jpg | height=150px | caption= Forbes Lake in the winter }}

File:Forbes House southeast corner.jpg

Forbes Lake is named for the {{vanchor|Forbes family}} of settlers. Dorr Forbes, a Civil War veteran with 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, from La Moille, Illinois, and his wife Eliza had a farm on the lake in 1877, probably growing cranberries. The farming was ruined by beavers and the family sold the land which later became the steel mill site (see below). The family also had a shingle mill on Juanita Creek.Juanita "remember when" map 1900-1918, derived from records and oral history, at Kirkland branch map file, King County Library System and a home on Juanita Bay, built in the 1880s in Madison Park, Seattle{{sfn|King County Historic Preservation|2002}} and moved across the lake by barge or boat. It was rebuilt in 1905.{{citation|title=Juanita's First Family|author=Matthew McCauley|publisher=Kirkland Heritage Society|url=http://kirklandheritage.org/news-and-articles/kirklands-past/juanitas-first-family/}}

Forbes Lake was the site of the Kirkland Steel Mill, built by the city's founder Peter Kirk, but it never produced any steel. The enterprise folded in the Panic of 1893.{{sfn|Ely|1975}}

File:Juanita Bay owl.jpg

The wetlands where Forbes Creek enters Lake Washington are Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland's largest city park at {{convert|110|acre}}.{{sfn|Manning|1995|p=61}}{{citation|title=Park guide|publisher=City of Kirkland|url=http://www.kirklandwa.gov/depart/parks/Parks_and_Open_Spaces/Online_Parks_Guide.htm}} A Duwamish village was located there prior to 1830, and wapato tubers harvested in the wetlands.{{sfn|King County Historic Preservation|2002}} Inhabitants include large numbers of year-round and overwintering birds, including osprey, owls, bald eagles, herons and woodpeckers. As many as 1,600 birds have been counted at once in the park.{{sfn|Manning|Manning|Spring|2002|p=76}} The park also is home to many mammal species including beaver, muskrat, nutria, raccoon, river otter, weasel, and coyote.{{sfn|City of Kirkland|2011}}

The Forbes Creek wetlands are noted as prime urban birdwatching areas by The National Geographic Society, Reader's Digest, and many Pacific Northwest guidebooks.{{sfn|Alderfer|2006|p=12}}{{sfn|Dolezal|2007|p=44}}{{sfn|Stevens|Weber|2016|p=73}}

The Juanita Bridge, built in 1891 and rebuilt in 1932, carried Market Street wagon traffic, later automobile traffic, across the wetland. It was converted to pedestrian-only use in 1974 when a new bridge was built slightly to the east.{{citation|publisher=Eastside Heritage Center|title=Kirkland Historical Tour|year=2006|url=http://www.eastsideheritagecenter.org/tours/kirkland_tour.html}}{{citation|title=Juanita Bridge, Lake Washington|publisher=Museum of History and Industry|via=University of Washington digital collections|id=image 1998.10.39|url=http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5310}}

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{{citation|title=Juanita Bay Park is a popular winter walk, well-interpreted|date= January 19, 2011 |author=Cathy McDonald|newspaper=The Seattle Times|url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/outdoors/2013976058_nwwwalkabout20.html}}

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• {{citation|title=National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Washington & Oregon|publisher=National Geographic Books|year=2006|first=Jonathan |last=Alderfer|isbn=9780792253136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVqL3DHMB2cC&pg=PA12}}
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• {{citation|title=Juanita Beach Park History|author=King County Historic Preservation Program|via=City of Kirkland|year=c. 2002|url=http://www.kirklandwa.gov/Assets/Parks/Parks+PDFs/JuanitaBeach_MasterPlan/JuanitaBeachPark_History.pdf|ref={{harvid|King County Historic Preservation|2002}}}}
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• {{citation|title=Kirkland's Streams, Wetlands and Wildlife Study |chapter=Forbes Creek Basin|pages=48–58|author=The Watershed Company |date=July 1998|via=City of Kirkland | chapter-url=http://www.kirklandwa.gov/depart/planning/Topics/Natural_Resources_Management.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328094512/http://www.kirklandwa.gov/depart/planning/Topics/Natural_Resources_Management.htm|archivedate=March 28, 2015}}
• {{citation|url=http://www.kirklandwa.gov/Assets/Parks/Parks+PDFs/Forbes+Lake+Park+Final+Plan+Report.pdf|title=Forbes Lake Trail and Park Improvements Plan|author=Worthy and Associates|date=March 2009|via=City of Kirkland}}

{{Commons category|Forbes Creek watershed}}

• [http://www.kirklandwa.gov/depart/parks/Park_Planning/Park_Planning___Development/Forbes_Lake_Trail_Improvements.htm Forbes Lake Trail and Park Improvements Project] at Kirkland Parks
• [http://green2.kingcounty.gov/streamsdata/watershedinfo.aspx?Locator=0456 Stream report] at King County Department of Natural Resources

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