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The U.S. is blessed with vast swaths of forests, from warm subtropical cypress swamps in Florida to groves of moss-covered, ancient spruce trees in Alaska. Roughly one-third of all forests in the U.S. are owned by the federal government, whose duty is to provide timber, clean water, wildlife habitat and recreation for the public.

  • Our Stories 
    • Bears, Eagles, and Black-Tailed Deer
      Preservation of the Tongass National Forest on the panhandle of Southeast Alaska has been a major preoccupation of Earthjustice since the earliest days. Tom Turner describes how it all began.
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