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The book of the Tongass / edited by Carolyn Servid and Donald Snow.

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In the southeast corner of America's most rugged state lies the last contiguous expanse of temperate rain forest on the planet, much of it within the Tongass National Forest. With Glacier Bay at its northern end, the Tongass lies on a maze of islands and along a coastal strip protected by a ran...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Servid, Carolyn, Snow, Donald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : [Berkeley, CA] : Milkweed Editions ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1999.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Tongass National Forest (Alaska) > History.
Tongass National Forest (Alaska) > Environmental conditions.
Tongass National Forest (Alaska) > Economic conditions.
Natural history > Alaska > Tongass National Forest.
Ecology.
Economic history.
Natural history.
Alaska > Tongass National Forest.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Donald Snow
  • "Up the inside passage-bridge to the past" / Jackie Canterbury, Cheri Brooks
  • "Heart of the forest" / Richard Carstensen
  • "The Tongass Rain Forest-an elusive sense of place and time" / Paul Alaback
  • "Salmon in the trees" / Brad Matsen
  • "First peoples of the Tongass: law and the traditional subsistence way of life" / David Avraham Voluck
  • "Glacier Bay history" / Amy Marvin
  • "Logging and learning in the Tongass Rain Forest" / John Sisk
  • "Allowable cut: fear and transformation in a Tongass timber town" / Daniel Henry
  • "The independents: hope all over" / Tim Bristol
  • "Forest management: you can't stand still" / Stewart Allen
  • "Love, crime and joyriding on a dead-end road" / John Straley
  • "Naatsilanʹei" / Willie Marks
  • "Heart of the hunter" / Richard Nelson
  • "The weave of place and time" / Carolyn Servid.

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