Sunday 24 August 2014
The Tongass National
Forest in southeastern Alaska is the largest national
forest in the United States at 17 million acres. Most of its area is part
of the temperate rain forest WWF ecoregion, itself part of the larger Pacific
temperate rain forest WWF ecoregion, and is remote enough to be home to many
species of endangered and rare flora and fauna. The Tongass, which is managed
by the United States Forest Service. Source
