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Saving the Tongass National Forest

Ethan Goffman Alaska, alaska forest service, Earthjustice, national forest, native, Native American, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, Organized Village of Kake, rainforest, salmon, Southeast, temperate, Tongass, wildlife

Although it often feels like environmentalists are purveyors of catastrophe, stories of saving precious wilderness abound. One of these is Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest relatively intact rainforest in North America which makes up about 14 percent of the global temperate rainforest…