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Tongass may refer to:

  • Fort Tongass
  • Tongass people, or Taantʼa Ḵwáan, "Sea Lion Tribe", one of the main divisions of the Tlingit people and the namesake of all other "Tongass" names.
  • Tongass Highway
  • Tongass Island
  • Tongass Narrows, a channel by Ketchikian, Alaska, which forms part of the Alaska Marine Highway
  • Tongass National Forest
  • Tongass Passage, a strait on the Canada-United States border

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Tongass

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Tongass may refer to: Fort Tongass Tongass people, or Taantʼa Ḵwáan, "Sea Lion Tribe", one of the main divisions of the Tlingit people and the namesake...

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Tongass National Forest

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The Tongass National Forest (/ˈtɒŋɡəs/) in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at 16.7 million acres (26,100 sq mi; 6,800,000 ha; 68...

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Tongass Island

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Tongass Island, historically also spelled Tongas Island, is an island in the southern Alaska Panhandle, near the marine boundary with Canada at 54–40...

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Alaska Route 7

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Control Devices, AK-7 follows (from south to north): South Tongass Highway, North Tongass Highway (Ketchikan) Nordic Drive, Mitkoff Highway (Petersburg)...

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Fort Tongass

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Fort Tongass was a United States Army base on Tongass Island, in the southernmost Alaska Panhandle, located adjacent to the village of the group of Tlingit...

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Tongass Narrows

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Tongass Narrows is a Y-shaped channel, part of Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage. The waterway forms part of the Alaska Marine Highway and as such, is...

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Southeast Alaska

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southeast Alaska is situated in Tlingit Aaní, much of which is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States' largest national forest. In many places...

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Tongass Passage

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Tongass Passage (Tlingit: Séet Tlèin) is a strait on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and British Columbia, located on the southwest side...

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Tongass Timber Reform Act

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The Tongass Timber Reform Act (TTRA) is an act that was intended to amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), with the primary...

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Mendenhall Glacier

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Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, a federally designated unit of the Tongass National Forest. The Juneau Icefield Research Program has monitored the...

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Alaska

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Purchase. The region is dominated by the Alexander Archipelago as well as the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the United States. It contains...

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Sitka Pulp Mill

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focus of the mill became the manufacture of paper. In September 1907, the Tongass National Forest was established, and by 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt...

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Tongass School of Arts and Sciences

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Located in Ketchikan, Alaska, the Tongass School of Arts and Sciences (also known as TSAS) is a creative school. It has its own preschool and is available...

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Pacific temperate rainforests

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lost over a billion dollars in Tongass timber sales.[citation needed] Half a million acres (2,000 km2) of the Tongass was selected by native corporations...

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Tlingit language

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features between the Eyak language, found around the Copper River delta, and Tongass Tlingit, near the Portland Canal, are all the more striking for the distances...

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List of edible plants and mushrooms of southeast Alaska

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and edible mushroom species to grow. The area consists primarily of the Tongass National Forest, which is a temperate rainforest. This rainforest has plenty...

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Alexander Archipelago wolf

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biologically isolated from the rest of North America by the Coast Mountains. The Tongass National Forest comprises about 80% of the region. In 1993, a petition...

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Tlingit

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people Taantʼa Ḵwáan tʰaːntʼa qʰʷáːn Sea Lion Tribe Fort Tongass (formerly) & Ketchikan (today) Tongass people Jilḵoot Ḵwáan tʃiɬqʰuːt qʰʷáːn Chilkoot Tribe...

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Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

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Southeast region of Alaska, including the areas of the Panhandle, the Tongass National Forest, and the Inside Passage. SEACC's core purpose is "to protect...

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Alaska Roadless Rule

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reconstruction in Inventoried roadless areas, which protects about half of the Tongass National Forest and Chugach National Forest's 17 million acres. The Alaska...

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On Your Knees Cave

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The site was first discovered in 1993 by the Tongass Cave Project, a joint cooperation between the Tongass National Forest and the National Speleological...

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Presidency of Donald Trump

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Refuge. The administration sought to open up more than 180,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest in the country, for logging. In...

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Grizzly bear

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Rogers, Lynn. "Grizzly Attack – Timothy Treadwell". katmaibears.com. "Tongass National Forest – Nature Viewing". Retrieved 26 May 2016. COSEWIC Assessment...

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Haida people

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and Tongass (from territory claimed by the Russians) had been attacking and enslaving the Coast Salish people there. When the Haida and Tongass (sea...

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List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

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to Seattle, Washington, United States, crashed into a mountain in the Tongass National Forest near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 on board. September...

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