The Tongass National Forest (/ˈtɒŋɡəs/) in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at 16.7 million acres (26,100 sq mi; 6,800,000 ha; 68...
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Ketchikian, Alaska, which forms part of the Alaska Marine Highway Tongass National Forest Tongass Passage, a strait on the Canada-United States border This disambiguation...
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Southeast Alaska (section National protected areas)
Tlingit Aaní, much of which is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States' largest national forest. In many places, the international border...
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provisions the Forest Service had included to protect the viability of the wolf subspecies in its Forest Plan for the Tongass National Forest, adopted three...
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Mendenhall Glacier (category Tongass National Forest)
Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, a federally designated unit of the Tongass National Forest. The Juneau Icefield Research Program has monitored the outlet...
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instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska's Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions established nearly 20 years ago during...
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isolated from the rest of North America by the Coast Mountains. The Tongass National Forest comprises about 80% of the region. In 1993, a petition to list...
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boundary with Tongass National Forest running along the ridgeline. The park's northwestern boundary, which also abuts Tongass National Forest, runs in the...
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(67 km2). There are 17 wildernesses in Jefferson National Forest, second only to Tongass National Forest, which has 19. Barbours Creek Wilderness (part)...
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logged every year, not all National Forests are entirely forested. There are tidewater glaciers in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and ski areas such...
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