Tongass National Forest

The fortunes inside the Tongass National Forest are dynamic and inexhaustible. Spreading over crosswise over 500 miles of Southeast Alaska, and circumscribed by the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains, the Tongass is the biggest in place calm rainforest on the planet, and is home to a great cluster of islands, mountains, backwoods, ice sheets, salmon streams, fjords and bays.Tongass National Forest, the biggest in the United States, got its name from the Tongass Clan of the Tlingit Indians.

In excess of 80 percent of Southeast Alaska is in Tongass, spreading over 11,000 miles of coastline, and home to around 70,000 individuals living in 32 groups, including Alaska's state capital, Juneau. The Tongass likewise underpins plentiful fish and untamed life, including every one of the five types of Pacific salmon, darker grizzly bears, wolves, Sitka dark followed deer, Bald Eagles, Northern Goshawks, and Marbled Murrelets.