Tongass Forest Documentation

Timber sale boundary marker old growth trees in Sunny Cove, Cholmondeley Sound, Prince of Wales Island within the area targeted by the Cholmondeley Sound Timber Sale within the McKenzie Roadless Area of the Tongass National Forest.

Unique identifier: GP049JX

Type: Image

Shoot date: 07/08/2003

Locations: Alaska, North America, Tongass National Forest, United States of America

Credit line: © Mark Linneman / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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'Endangered Forests, Endangered Freedoms' Tour in Alaskan Tongass

Documentation of old growth forest and clearcutting in the Tongass National Forest. Greenpeace sent the MV Esperanza to the Tongass on its "Endangered Forests, Endangered Freedoms" tour, investigating the threat posed by the Bush administration's large-scale logging strategies to forests across America. The tour met with threw many obstacles in its way, including denying dock space for the ship to make the visit as difficult as possible. However, many local community members (including the indigenous Tlingit peoples) have thwarted those efforts, going so far as to offer Greenpeace their personal berth spaces.

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