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 Stories About: Alaska AND deforestation AND logging AND national forests AND rainforests
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Truth in the Tongass
Gathering data in the U.S.' largest temperate rainforest a heroic and necessary task |
Erik Hoffner |
03 Jul 2007 |
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| Hiking part of the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska a few summers ago, I was utterly wowed, but knowing that it accounts for nearly one-third of the old-growth temperate rain forest left in the world seemed incredibly incongruent with the fact that my government was working so hard to wreck it (thanks to some truly absurd subsidies). An excellent story in the new National Geographic retells the tale and shines light on new efforts aimed at allowing the ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, deforestation, logging, national forests, rainforests (all these topics) |
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