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The Tongass National Forest (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ ɡ ə s /) in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at 16.7 million acres (26,100 sq mi; 6,800,000 ha; 68,000 km 2), an expanse larger than 10 U.S. states and 75 U.N. member nations.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Ptarmigan Peak is located in a subpolar oceanic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. [5] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rain and snow.
The temperate rainforest in southeast Alaska, in the Tongass National Forest is a perhumid (always wet) temperate rain forest. [2]: 41–81 A perhumid temperate rainforest is a rainforest that receives above ten percent of its annual rainfall during the summer. Another contributing factor to define a perhumid rainforest is transient snow must ...
The Capitol Christmas Tree, an 80-foot Sitka spruce, arrives in Washington, from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. The tree will be decorated and illuminated at a ...
In August 2019, Trump had instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska's Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions established nearly 20 years ago during the Clinton administration. The move opens it to potential logging and energy and mining projects. Tongass is the world's largest intact temperate rainforest.
The peak is located 17 miles (27 km) south-southwest of Wrangell in Tongass National Forest on Etolin Island. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains to Anita Bay and Zimovia Strait. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises from sea-level at Anita Bay in 1.3 miles (2.1 km).
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Sumdum has a tundra climate with long, cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. [7] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Coast Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.
Arthur Peak is a 3,650-foot (1,113 m) elevation mountain summit located in the Coast Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska.It is situated immediately east of Taku Harbor, and 25 mi (40 km) southeast of Juneau, on land managed by Tongass National Forest.