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Killing The Forest For The Trees
Stretching across nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world. In 2001, President Bill Clinton signed the ...
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With Trump’s new pro-timber order, Alaska conservationists poised to rehash Tongass Roadless Rule
"The parties on our side change whether we're with or against the federal government," said the Southeast Alaska Conservation ...
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Glacier Bay
This park on the coast of southeast Alaska offers snowy mountain peaks, narrow fjords, bays, harbors, scattered islands, a temperate rainforest of spruces and hemlocks, and numerous glaciers. Two ...
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Trump Administration Launches New Assault on Alaska’s Tongass Old-growth Forest
JUNEAU, Alaska— The Trump administration announced plans today ... The Tongass is the largest intact temperate rainforest left on Earth and provides vital habitat for eagles, bears, wolves, salmon and ...
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Alaska Native Tribes, Businesses, Forest Advocates Intervene to Protect Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
Background Situated in the southeast corner of Alaska, the Tongass is a temperate rainforest and the ancestral homeland of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples. The islands, fjords, glaciers, and ...