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Forbes Creek es un arroyo pequeño y poco inclinado totalmente adentro de la ciudad de Kirkland, Washington. Desde su naciente en la morrena de Rose Hill hasta su salida en Juanita Bay es alrededor de 2 mi en línea recta. El alcance norteño de su cuenca es una línea casi este-oeste a NE 116th Street; el límite oriental está en a la cresta de Rose Hill, aproximadamente norte-sur a 132nd Avenue NE. El alcance sureño es irregular tendiendo aproximadamente desde el punto más alto de Kirkland en la esquina norteste de Bridle Trails State Park (535 ft, 47.65722°N, -122.1725°W ) a través de South Rose Hill Park, hasta Lake Washington a unos 16 ft sobre el nivel del mar.

Dos ramales principales del arroyo levantan por Rose Hill entre NE 70th Street y NE 85th Street y luego se van del sur al norte en Rose Hill. Uno de ellos se levanta en la vicinidad de Lake Washington High School y se va al norte por Costco #008 hacia Forbes Lake. El otro se levanta un poco al este en la vicinidad de Rose Hill Elementary School luego a través de North Rose Hill Woodlands Park. Los dos se juntan al norte del lago y luego van al oeste a través de un conducto de dos metros debajo de Interstate 405 acerca de NE 100th Street, debajo del Cross Kirkland Corridor, hasta el Valle Forbes Creek y Juanita Bay Wetlands Park. El arroyo finalmente desemboca hasta Lake Washington a Juanita Bay, menos de un kilómetro de la boca de Juanita Creek que desemboca hasta la misma bahía.

Cuenca y humedales
La cuenca de Forbes Creek es una 1837 acre cuenca hidrográfica cubriendo un cuarto de la área total de la tierra de Kirkland. 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).

Especies de planta
Especies invasoras de planta incluyendo la zarza himalaya están presentes en las cuencas de Kirkland. Viburnum opulus introducido (posiblemente cultivado) crece sobre Forbes Lake.

Ice age creation
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".

Forbes Lake
Forbes Lake (47.68583°N, -122.17972°W) is a 7 acre, 30 ft deep kettle lake at elevation 246 ft above sea level. The city is developing areas around the lake under a Forbes Lake Trail and Park Improvements Project of 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.

Naming
Forbes Lake is named for the 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. and a home on Juanita Bay, built in the 1880s in Madison Park, Seattle and moved across the lake by barge or boat. It was rebuilt in 1905.

Steel mill
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.

Juanita Bay Park
The wetlands where Forbes Creek enters Lake Washington are Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland's largest city park at 110 acre. A Duwamish village was located there prior to 1830, and wapato tubers harvested in the wetlands. 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. The park also is home to many mammal species including beaver, muskrat, nutria, raccoon, river otter, weasel, and coyote.

The Forbes Creek wetlands are noted as prime urban birdwatching areas by The National Geographic Society, Reader's Digest, and many Pacific Northwest guidebooks.

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.