At 17 million acres, the
Tongass National Forest in southeastern
Alaska is the largest
national forest in the
United States. It is a north temperate
rain forest, remote enough to be the home of many species of flora and fauna considered endangered or rare elsewhere. Created in
1907 by
President Theodore Roosevelt, it encompasses islands of the
Alexander Archipelago[?], and
fjords and
glaciers and peaks of the
Coast Range[?] mountains.