The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest is a classic work of environmental protest that reports on the profound political developments that have taken place in recent years and documents the continuing struggle to protect the tongass. Robert Glenn Ketchum's extraordinary photographs present the enduring natural wonders of the Tongass, as well as the damage inflicted by clear-cutting, while the text recounts the shortsighted policies implemented by industry and the federal government. First published by Aperture in 1987, The Tongass played a vital role in Congress's passage of the Tongass Timber Reform Bill in 1990. This marked a turning point in the attempts to balance the management of this nation forest - the largest in the United States. The Tongass is the rarest and most intact temperate old-growth rain forest in the world. Its preservation is crucial, as his important book reveals.

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Robert Glenn Ketchum is named in the centennial edition of Audubon magazine as one of the one hundred champions of conservation who shaped the environmental movement of the twentieth century. He was recently awarded the Josephine and Frank Duveneck Humanitarian Award, as well as the Robert O. Easton Award for Environmental Stewardship. These acknowledgments reflect the success of Ketchum's thirty-year career as an activist, photographer, and writer. Ketchum's work is exhibited internationally and included in major museum collections throughout the United States. He is a founder and on the Board of Directors of Advocacy Arts Foundation, a trustee of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, a member of the Board of Councilors of the American Land Conservancy, and on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Communication Offices (EC). Ketchum served for fifteen years as Curator of Photography for the National Park Foundation.

Carey D. Ketchum is a writer who is deeply interested in the Tongass National Forest.

Roderick Nash is a professor emeritus and former professor of history and environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Nash is the author of the acclaimed books Wilderness and the American Mind and The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental ethics (History of American Thought and Culture).

Steve Kallick is the former Campaign Manager of the Alaska Rainforest Campaign as well as Executive Director of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Environment Program of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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