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Tongass National Forest

#Tongass National Forest #alaska #photography #nature #plants #green #trees #water #landscape #blue #salmon #river #moss #forest #woods #rocks #fish

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It is a rocky, stormy, and wild coast, one that everywhere reveals nature at its most spectacular. There are the redwood groves of Northern California, the raging rivers of Southern Oregon, the Rogue Basin, and the Umpqua forest. There is the mouth of the Columbia River, with its huge waves and foaming breakers, where ocean currents and tides collide with the deadly bars. In Washington State, there are the breathtaking sea stacks of the Olympic National Park, the Hoh River, and Quinault River valleys. Also in the park are towering fir, cedar, and spruce trees draped in ghostly mosses. Then comes an inland sea, the Salish Sea, shared by Washington and British Columbia, where snow-laden mountains — the ten-thousand-foot Mt Baker and the eight-thousand-foot Mt Olympus — shelter idyllic islands whose waters are home to the last of the southern orcas.

#old growth forest #temperate rainforest #tongass national forest #redwoods #west coast #b.c. #california #oregon #alaska

[myowangs]

#Alaska #tongass national forest #sea plane #Cessna

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#personal #photography #nature #alaska #juneau #temperate rainforest #naturecore #nature photography #tongass national forest #mountain #watercore #island living #island #oceancore #sunshine #auke bay #Áak'w Ḵwáan territory #gastineau channel #fritz cove #sea punk #sunny #summer #ocean water #pacific northwest #southeast alaska #mine

[environmentalwatch]

Tongass Nat. Forest Protected

Tongass Forest Bans Logging Roads

Logging roads are banned in the Tongass National Forest as the Biden administration restores protections cut by former President Trump. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in America, and has been the center of decades of fighting between environmental protections and commercial timber interests. In 2020, Alaska state leaders persuaded the Trump administration to undo…

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#alaska #Donald Trump #logging #old growth forests #President Joe Biden #timber industry #tom vilsack #tongass #tongass national forest

[kp777]

#tongass national forest #logging #deforestation #biden administration

[rjzimmerman]

This documentary is about 40 minutes long. Description from You Tube:

Three women set sail on a 350 mile expedition through Alaska’s massive Tongass National Forest, exploring how clearcut logging in this coastal rainforest could affect wildlife, local communities and our planet’s climate. 

#The Understory #Tongass National Forest #conservation #logging #timber industry

[explorewiththeembachs]

Well our visit to Fish Creek Wildlife Viewing Area in the Tongass National Forest was awesome! We got a close up view of a young brown bear fishing for salmon. He really put on a show! Well worth the short trip across the border to Hyder, Alaska.

Back on the road south. We should be in the lower 48 by tomorrow.

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#alaska road trip #Tongass national forest #Fish Creek Wildlife Viewing Area

[75centralphotography]

Looking for a Catch

Looking for a Catch

A fishing trawler departs Ketchikan, Alaska, in the Tongass Narrows.

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#Alaska #Boats and Ships #Color #Ketchikan #Landscapes #Tongass Narrows #Tongass National Forest #Trees

[bingwallpaper]

Bald eagle

Bald eagles are a symbol of strength, determination and courage. This bird of prey native to North America, is named as such for its white-feathered head. It was once an endangered bird, but conservation efforts and the implementation of the Endangered Species Act helped these eagles multiply in number. Today's image is of the Tongass National Forest, Alaska, where you'll find the highest nesting density of bald eagles in the world. Eagles are picky when it comes to selecting a tree to nest on. They like trees that are tall enough to offer good visibility of their surroundings.

#usa #alaska #tongass national forest #bald eagle

[wachinyeya]

Joel Jackson, the president of the Organized Village of Kake, a tribal community, has lived within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska his entire life. His community relies on the land for hunting deer and fishing salmon that swim in streams kept cold by the old-growth forest.

But the 66-year-old worried about damage to that land - the largest national forest in the US - after former President Donald Trump rescinded a measure blocking logging and road-building on nine million acres of land in the Tongass in 2020.

"The forest is key to our survival as a people, to our way of life … for thousands of years," Mr Jackson said.

Last week marked a long-awaited victory for Mr Jackson and other tribes and environmental groups who petitioned the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reinstate the protections for the forest.

The agency announced last Wednesday it would once again ban logging and the construction of roads for cutting timber in over half of the Tongass.

#alaska #good news #give the land back #that will protect it better than a ban that can be reinsinced by the next president #but hey #good news is good news #tongassnationalforest #tongass #Organized Village of Kake #indigenous people #first nations

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A wood elf and a plains elf walk into a bar

so a couple friends of mine were arguing which is better, grass or trees (it's tree), problem is one is from the plains and the other is from the trees. Grass friend was making valid points: grass roots have better root, more evenly dispersed, twice as deep, better for the soil, and a better carbon for up a factor of 10, but tree friend wasn't having, insisting trees are better for the obvious reasons, they are but I'm biased. Point is the reason everyone likes to make fun of Americans because we're bunch of elves of various species.

#and all the other stuff #grasslands are important #we need ecological diversity #but if you replace my forest with grass i will fertilize Tongass National Forest with your and your entire bloodline's remains

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Similar sentiments were expressed by Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy who, while initiating an effort to stabilize the state’s long-term finances via carbon offsets that include leaving forests unharvested, stated the Roadless Rule and Tongass aren’t the places for that to occur.

“This ruling is a huge loss for Alaskans,” Dunleavy said in a statement posted on his official social media accounts. “Alaskans deserve access to the resources that the Tongass provides — jobs, renewable energy resources and tourism, not a government plan that treats human beings within a working forest like an invasive species.” https://www.juneauempire.com/news/biden-administration-reinstates-tongass-roadless-rule/

We are an invasive species, especially the logging industry, which has never seen a forest, a stretch of scenic beauty, a fragile habitat, an endangered species, a carbon sink, a place of wonder and rest and spiritual uplift, a mysterious cathedral of owl sound and bird call, that it wouldn’t gleefully destroy for a quick buck.

#climate #tongass national forest #trees #forests #invasive species

[myowangs]

#Alaska #sea plane #tongass national forest #selfie #Cessna

[alux-ulkan]

The mountains are breathing

August 25 - 2022

#personal #my photography #nature photography #naturecore #alaska #juneau #tongassnationalforest #tongass national forest #southeast alaska #boreal forest #temperate rainforest #chill #nature #trees #relax #mountains #clouds #rain #raincore #goblincore #mountaincore #rainforest #douglas island #tlingit #land #59 degrees #fritz cove

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Tongass National Forest, Juneau, Alaska

#southeast alaska #forests #conifers #juneau #my photos