National Museum of Natural History
The Tongass: Alaska's Magnificent Rain Forest
April 22, 1994 – September 11, 1994
View 42 photographs that celebrate the beauty and power of Alaska's vast, but little-known rain forest. Part of the largest temperate rain forest in the world, the Tongass covers approximately 17 million acres (7 million hectares) of land, spreading across nearly 1,000 mountainous islands off the coast of British Columbia. This southeastern region of Alaska, also known as the Alexander Archipelago, is one of the rarest ecosystems on Earth.
