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MAP OF TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST 



* 16.8 million acre forest is the Nation's largest. 



* The forest area is: 



three times larger than New Hampshire and 

 larger than West Virginia. 



* 7.3 million acres are rock and ice, alpine meadows and muskeg 



* Shaded in green. 9.5 million acres are tree covered 



* Within the tree covered area: 



5.4 million acres are harvestable forest land (these are the 

 darker green areas on the map). 



TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST MAP SHOWING 

 STATE. PRIVATE AND NATIVE LANDS 



* Tan colored areas on the map show forest lands owned by the State 

 of Alaska and Alaska Native corporations 



— nearly 1 million acres. 



* Many valuable timber areas have been conveyed to the Native 

 corporations in settlement of their aboriginal land claims. 



* Native and State owned timber is not subject to primary 

 manufacture requirements applied to National Forest timber. 

 Privately owned timber is usually exported as round logs or chips 

 and therefore does not help sustain jobs at saw mills and pulp mills 



* In 1988, over 385 million board feet of timber were harvested on 

 Native Corporation lands — nearly half of all timber harvested in 

 Southeast Alaska. 



