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More than 5,000 miles of roads are carved into the remote landscape to clear-cut large swatches of forests on Chichagof Island. An aerial picture after a winter snow reveals the patchwork on lower reaches of the mountains where logging traditionally occurs.
Taxpayer money has subsidized the timber industry since 1980. Tongass National Forest timber management has cost U.S. taxpayers roughly one billion dollars, making it the largest money loser in the entire national forest system.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
- Keywords
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aerial, aerial views, alaska, alexander archipelago, chichagof island, coast mountains (alaska), color image, day, day views, forestry, forests, forests and forestry, geography, glaciers, image type, industry, industry and production, juneau icefield, logging, lumber, lumber and paper industry and production, mendenhall glacier, mendenhall lake, mountains, national forests (alaska), natural forces and phenomena, nobody, north america, number of people, outdoor, outdoor views, photography, precipitation, ridges, roads, snow, tongass national forest, united states, weather
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
