Tongass National Forest has a great sense of humor about "bear petting." 😜 Another place to visit on my bucket list. It's 16.7 million acres and is in Southeast near Juneau. I've been to Juneau, just not to the forest and I will NEVER pet a bear!
#Alaska #TongassNationalForest #DontPetBears

Mushrooms are cool. I took this photo a couple of days ago in a city park near my home.
#FungiFriday
#tongassnationalforest
#Alaska

Biden restores protections to Alaska's Tongass National Forest

#Biden #Alaska #TongassNationalForest #EnvironmentalProtection #ClimateChange
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64428423

Biden Reinstates Logging Ban In America’s Largest #TongassNationalForest
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-tongass-national-forest-alaska-restored-protection_n_63d19f8ae4b01a43638b7ca7
The administration has finalized its reversal of a Trump-era rule that gutted protections across 9 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. #ClimateCrisis #environment #GreenNewDeal

The Biden administration on Wednesday restored protections for more than half of Alaska’s #TongassNationalForest, safeguarding one of the world’s largest intact temperate #rainforests from new roads and #logging #Alask #ClimateCrisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/25/tongass-forest-protections-alaska-biden/