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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
The Everglades
are a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S.
state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system
begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast
but shallow Lake Okeechobee. Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a
slow-moving river 60 miles wide and over
100 miles long, flowing southward across
a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state. Source
The Redwood National and State Parks are located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968). The National Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation administratively combined Redwood National Park with the three abutting Redwood State Parks in 1994 for the purpose of cooperative forest management and stabilization of forests and watersheds as a single unit. The ecosystem of the RNSP preserves a number of threatened animal species such as the Brown Pelican. Source
