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  • Fog shrouds steep cliffs in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Houses built above Ketchikan Harbor where many cruise ships dock.
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  • Tributary of the Unuk River in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Ferns in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Moss covered trees in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Sawmill operator planes boards for specialty wood products.
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  • Stacked planed wood in a sawmill.
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  • Uprooted tree with ferns growing in the Tongass National Forest
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  • Fog lifts over islands in Sitka Sound.
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  • Black bear on tree branch in Tongass National Forest.
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  • A young boy fishes in Anan Creek.
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  • Black bear feeding on salmon in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Juvenile black bear feeds on salmon in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Black bear in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Logging and road building in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Logging roads through a clear cut on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Fresh clear cuts on Prince of Wales island in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Aerial of Revillagigedo Island.
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  • The mud-choked road to Beni is nearly impassable in any vehicle during the wet season.
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  • Deer crossing an estuary on Chichagof Island.
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  • Moss covered tree that was logged and continued to grow.
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  • Vine maples on forest floor in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Ferns in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Totem poles and clan house at Totem Bight Historic Site.
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  • Raw timber logs in a lumberyard.
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  • A brown bear or grizzly bear paw with long claws.
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  • Researcher takes sample from mouth of brown bear for data collection.
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  • Black bear climbing tree in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Black bear feeds on salmon in Anan Creek.
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  • Black bear feeds on salmon in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Logging truck hauls timber in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Logging in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Logs are floated and will be loaded on a ship for export.
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  • Wilderness on south Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Fresh clear cut and logging roads on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A logging camp on a protected cove in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Logs are floated and will be loaded on a ship for export.
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  • Entrance of El Capitan cave on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A waterfall spills into a rocky karst area of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Clear cut trees grow together letting no light in the forest.
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  • Ferns carpet the forest floor in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Clear cut scrub and bushes begin to cover the hillside.
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  • The road to Beni is nearly impassable during the wet season with slippery, silted mud.
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  • Fog shrouds steep cliffs in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Aquatic animals in seaweed.
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  • Queen Annes lace in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Totem pole at Totem Bight Historic Site.
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  • A fisherman unloads his catch of sockeye salmon.
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  • A trap found in the woods.
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  • Seaplane over Ketchikan Harbor with one of the many cruise ships.
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  • Houses line Ketchikan Harbor and fishing boats in marina.
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  • Researchers measure head of brown bear collecting data on bears.
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  • Seaplanes land in the wilderness regions of Alaska.
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  • Forest of uncut old growth spruce, hemlock and cedar trees.
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  • Morning fog in Sitka Sound in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Forest floor of old growth trees in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Black bear on tree branch in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Black bear feeding on salmon in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Juvenile black bear in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Black bear feeds on salmon in Anan Creek.
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  • Timber is stacked to be processed and loaded onto ships for export.
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  • Second growth timber on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Gold mining in northeastern Congo.
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  • Gold mining in northeastern Congo.
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  • A Pygmy woman hauls a piece of mahogony from the Ituri Forest.
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  • A Pygmy preacher at the Pentecost Church in Epulu.
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  • Gold mining near the town of Quarantesept in northeastern Congo. Hundreds of people from Congo and Uganda come to work at the mines.<br />
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Villagers in the war-weary Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo scrape for gold in a shaft dug decades ago by a Belgian company. Until recently, armed groups controlled Ituri’s rich mines, using gold to buy weapons.
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  • A woman holds her child safely during a domestic dispute incident amon Pygmy family members.
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  • The Chief of Salate makes his way through the Ituri Forest to a secluded camp for the nkumbi manhood ritual.
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  • Tribesmen Steer a boat across the remote Ituri River watershed deep in the Ituri Forest in DR Congo.
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  • A logging camp in the Ituri Forest where the trunk is suspended on a platform and the huge squared-off trunk is cut into nine equal segments. The mud houses are supported by solid mahogany 3 X 3’s that are 15 feet long and cost 1 dollar.
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts and leaf mouthpieces to stay silent during their circumcision ceremony. Pgymies are of the Congo's few remaining traditional tribes in the rainforests of the world. They are threatened by logging companies and growing modern culture.
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  • An indigenous man from the rainforest protests in Quito surrounded by police.
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  • Flying fox bats hang from a limb in an American Samoa rainforest.
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  • Trees in the temperate rainforest grow on a rocky shore.
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  • Trees in the Tongass National Forest, which is a temperate rainforest, grow on a moss-covered rocky shore near Sitka Sound.
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  • Shredded remains of trees on the edge of a forest that was clear cut on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. At nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass rainforest is composed of considerable stands of old-growth forest, with some trees standing more than 800 years old. <br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth.<br />
The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • Shredded remains of trees are the spoils left after a forest is clear cut on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. At nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass rainforest is composed of considerable stands of old-growth forest, with some trees more than 800 years old.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth.<br />
The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • View through a muddy windshield shows trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • Fog lifts over forested islands and muskeg terrain above Sitka Sound. Tongass National Forest is 17 million acres, the largest temperate rainforest in the world.
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  • Islands surrounded by icy waters are seen from the air near Glacier Bay National Park. The wilderness contains rugged mountains, glaciers, rainforest and wild coastlines with sheltered fjords in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Tongass National Forest is the largest remaining “temperate rainforest” in the world. Islands above Sitka Sound's steep, rugged mountainsides are often cloaked in fog because it receives up to 200 inches of rain a year. The land contains slowly draining granite soil with reflective muskeg bogs as well as limestone karst.
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  • Aerial view of mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine, located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • Pygmy Boys in a nKumbi Manhood Ritual wear a leaf mouthpiece to keep them silent. Forest Pygmies near Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo are indigenous, semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherers in the rainforest of the Congo Basin. The BaMbuti Pygmies perform a  nKumbi or initiation that lasts five months where the boys live at a camp in the forest and daily learn survival skills.
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  • Explosives set in pit at mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold min that is located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. <br />
After men set explosions, ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • A timber faller works alone with a chain saw in the forest cutting trees one by one at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It is dangerous work.<br />
 The forests in the Tongass can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor in Alaska's Southeast.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • Logging roads zig zag making a pattern seen from the air after a recent clear cut forest creating a barren slope on Admiralty Island. Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass National Forest is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • A logging truck hauls timber from the Tongass National Forest to a sawmill where it will be processed and loaded on ships for export.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass National Forest is composed of high-volume old growth.  The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7258_1075024.jpg
  • View through a muddy windshield shows trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • The building front of the Save the Pygmies Foundation which is an effort to protect one of the few remaining traditional tribes of the rainforest.
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  • An Mbuti hunter drapes a net between trees to catch game. Pymgy tribes of Congo are one of the few remaining traditional tribes of the rainforest.
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  • An okapi forages in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a World Heritage site that covers around 20 percent of the Ituri Rainforest. <br />
The Okapi is a mammal with distinct striped markings that stands less than five feet tall. It is an herbivore that feeds on tree leaves, grasses and ferns that never developed the long neck of a savannah giraffe since all its’ food is low. <br />
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Okapi are solitary animals whose dark bodies blend into the shadows and stripes break up an animal outline making it difficult for predators to see them. Major threats to this solitary forest creature include habitat loss due to logging, mining and hunting. Classified as endangered,  The Okapi Conservation Project was established in 1987 to protect the species. T
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  • The Okapi is a mammal with distinct striped markings that stands less than five feet tall. The herbivore feeds on tree leaves, grasses and ferns and never developed the long neck of a savannah giraffe since all its’ food is low.<br />
<br />
 Okapi are solitary animals whose dark bodies blend into the shadows and stripes break up an animal outline making it difficult for predators to see them. Major threats to this solitary forest creature include habitat loss due to logging, mining and hunting. Classified as endangered,  The Okapi Conservation Project was established in 1987 to protect the species. THE Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a World Heritage site that covers around 20 percent of the Ituri Rainforest.
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