Tongass National Forest
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Oct 10, 2026
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It's a way of life.
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My name is Sam Timmons, and for the past 20 years, I've been patrolling the vast, untamed wilderness of Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
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Most people see it as nothing more than a remote expanse of trees and mountains, but to me it's home.
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Out here, the air is colder, the silence heavier, and the shadows longer.
Mikayla FinnertyHOST
Case says one lesson learned was a need to communicate more frequently with family and media.
Mikayla FinnertyHOST
Public comments closed Tuesday on a federal proposal to lift a ban on building roads in national forests across the country, including the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.
Mikayla FinnertyHOST
More than three hundred and seventy thousand people submitted comments online, and ninety-nine percent of them oppose a rollback of the roadless rule.
Mikayla FinnertyHOST
That's according to an analysis by the Center for Western Priorities, a conservation advocacy group.
Jim PattizGUEST
Right now a longer term project we're working on is actually, um, we have, uh, a book, um, that we're doing, uh, on America's old growth forests.
Jim PattizGUEST
So that's one of the reasons why we were just in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, and we've been traveling basically nonstop all year, photographing w- the last remaining old growth forests in the United States.
Jim PattizGUEST
Um, and it'll be sort of a large format coffee table style book, um, where the photography's gonna really, um, do the speaking, and then we're gonna kinda show people, um, basically, uh, what's been the, the premise of the book is, is that, you know, in the United States we were blessed with the greatest forests this planet has ever seen.
Jim PattizGUEST
Um, when, when European explorers first came here, it was just a continent of giants, um, with the exception of the Great Plains.
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You are no longer in a three-square-kilometer Transylvanian forest.
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You are in southeastern Alaska in the Tongass National Forest, and the scale is different from anything in the previous sections, different not by degree, but by kind, the way the ocean is different from a swimming pool.
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The Tongass covers roughly sixty-eight thousand square kilometers of coastal temperate rainforest.
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Sixty-eight thousand.
Alex HonnoldGUEST
I mean, particularly in bigger mountains, uh, you know, glaciers are receding super quickly.
Alex HonnoldGUEST
You know, two years ago I was on an expedition in Alaska in, uh, the Tongass National Forest, which is the largest temperate rainforest in the world, which is pretty cool.
Alex HonnoldGUEST
But anyway, the last photos we'd seen of the mountain, uh, showed it a certain way, and we're there, you know, under 10 years later and it was totally different 'cause the glaciers r- had receded so much, and so, like, big rock fins were sticking out in places that used to be covered in ice.
Alex HonnoldGUEST
And so, you know, it changes the climbing experience.
Eva WhiteHOST
He says that becomes particularly clear if you look across the border into British Columbia, which has similar geology but far more mining activity.
Eva WhiteHOST
On this side of the border, he says promising deposits in national parks in the Tongass National Forest face more permitting challenges and community pushback.
Eva WhiteHOST
This is Alaska Public Media.
Eva WhiteHOST
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Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No president, in my opinion, in the opinion of many other Alaskans, has come close to doing what the president has done simply by looking out for Alaska.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, if it's, if it's everything from the King Cove Road to the Tongass National Forest to oil to this massive, massive gas line, this will save the state of Alaska.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This will transform the state of Alaska.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is probably the largest project ever in the Arctic, probably one of the largest, if not largest, project in the Pacific, and it's gonna transform our great state for fifty, sixty, seventy years, and it wouldn't have been done without the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No president, in my opinion and the opinion of many other Alaskans, has come close to doing what the president has done, simply by looking out for Alaska.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, if it's, if it's everything from the King Cove Road, to the Tongass National Forest, to oil, to this massive, massive gas line, this will save the state of Alaska.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This will transform the state of Alaska.
Mike DunleavySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is probably the largest project ever in the Arctic, probably one of the largest, if not largest, project in the Pacific, and it's gonna transform our great state for 50, 60, 70 years.
Deborah SivasGUEST
The logging, especially in Alaska, but across many of our national forests, really, but quite vociferously in Alaska, has been the subject of years, like decades of litigation.
Deborah SivasGUEST
I have a colleague from law school who spent his entire career litigating around the Tongass National Forest, right? And now the administration is proposing to open up the last, so what they call roadless areas.
Deborah SivasGUEST
That's where we haven't done a lot of human development encroachment, right? And those are the prime remaining areas for sort of ecosystem and wildlife because humans aren't really there.
Pam KarlanHOST
Yeah, and if I understand it correctly, once you build these roads through the areas, it's There's less carbon capture, which is what these forests do a lot of.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
simply by looking out for Alaska.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, if it's, if it's everything from the King Cove Road to the Tongass National Forest to oil to this massive, massive gas line, this will save the state of Alaska.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This will transform the state of Alaska.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is probably the largest project ever in the Arctic
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