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2. Tongass National Forest - Wikipedia

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   The Tongass National Forest. The Tongass National Forest (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ ɡ ə s /) in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at 16.7 million acres (26,100 sq mi; 6,800,000 ha; 68,000 km 2). Most of its area is temperate rain forest and is remote enough to be home to many species of endangered and rare flora and fauna.

3. Alaska Roadless Rule - Wikipedia

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   Logs rafted for towing in Alaska. The Alaska Roadless Rule is an environmental conservation policy that placed significant restrictions on timber removal and road construction or reconstruction in Inventoried roadless areas, which protects about half of the Tongass National Forest and Chugach National Forest's 17 million acres. [1]

4. Southeast Alaska Discovery Center - Wikipedia

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   The Southeast Alaska Discovery Center is a visitor center in Ketchikan, Alaska, operated by the United States Forest Service as part of the Tongass National Forest. [1] The center provides interpretive exhibits and activities about the ecology, economy and culture of Southeast Alaska and its temperate rainforest ecosystems.

5. Chuck River Wilderness - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Forest Service Chuck River Wilderness is a 74,298-acre (30,067 ha) wilderness area located within the Tongass National Forest in the U.S. state of Alaska . It was designated by the United States Congress in 1990.

6. Tongass Timber Reform Act - Wikipedia

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   The state of Alaska noted that the Forest service inadequately assessed the impacts on water quality due to logging, as well as avoiding assessing the adverse effects on a variety of other industries and activities that rely on the health of the Tongass National Forest. Delineating buffers around streams of Class I and II that were explicitly ...

7. Mount Adolph Knopf - Wikipedia

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   Mount Adolph Knopf is a 6,200-foot-elevation (1,890-meter) glaciated mountain summit located in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. [2] It is situated 28 miles (45 km) north-northwest of Juneau to the western side of the Juneau Icefield, on land managed by Tongass National Forest.