Weekly Post: THE TONGASS: Stop the Cut, There are Salmon in the Trees (#201+) by Robert Glenn Ketchum

THE TONGASS:  Stop the Cut, There are Salmon in the Trees

by Robert Glenn Ketchum

In 1985, I began a 2-year commission to explore the Tongass rainforest, the largest forest in the United States Forest Service (USFS) system AND the largest temperate rainforest in the world. It was a unique, old-growth environment under siege from industrial logging. The resulting investigative book I published helped to pass the Tongass Timber Reform Bill, protect 1,000,000 acres of old-growth, and create 11 new wilderness areas. This is the story of how that was achieved.

~Robert Glenn Ketchum

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

THE TONGASS:  Stop the Cut, There are Salmon in the Trees, #366

Tongass, #366:  

As I near the end of this Tongass blog, I am going to repost a number of images that marked the best of my various trip experience over the four years I spent working there. I was commissioned to work in the rainforest by Barney Mchenry who previously provided me with my Hudson River commission. Barney thought the best way to be introduced to the Tongass was aboard Boat Company boat which was owned by Michael McIntosh, so he introduced us. Michael was happy to have me join the other members of the boat, and one of the first places we visited was the very small community of Warm Springs. Warm Springs overlooked a large, and raging, waterfall, which Michael wanted to fish. When he got near the waterfall, the scale of my coming Alaskan adventure became clear.

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