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Web Links
The Alaska Rainforest Campaign
http://www.akrain.org
Get an environmentalist’s perspective.
Alaska Research Voyages
http://www.alaskavoyages.com
Sam Skaggs, a naturalist featured in this Radio Expedition, is affiliated with this eco tourism group.
Southeast Alaska Tourism
http://www.alaskainfo.org
Find out how to travel to Tongass National Forest and learn more about the environment of southeast Alaska.
Tongass Fact Sheet 1
http://www.house.gov/resources/104cong/fullcomm/tongass1.htm
Congressman Don Young, Republican of Alaska, presented this fact sheet in support of a resolution to extend timber contracts in the Tongass site.
Tongass Fact Sheet 2
http://www.house.gov/resources/104cong/fullcomm/tongass2.htm
Congressman Don Young, Republican of Alaska, presented this fact sheet in support of a
resolution to extend timber contracts in the Tongass.
Tongass National Forest
http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/
The USDA Forest Service prepared this official site for America’s largest national
forest.
USDA Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/
This official site presents the agency’s view of its work.
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NGS Resources
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Simons, Lewis M. “Indonesia’s Plague of Fire.” Pages 100-119, August 1998.
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Mitchell, John G. “In the Line of Fire: Our National Forests.” Pages 58-87, March 1997.
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Brower, Kenneth. American Legacy: Our National Forests. 1997.
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Grupper, Jonathan Destination: Rain Forest. 1997.
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Tourtellot, Jonathan. “Costa Rica, Bio-Extravaganzas.” Pages 20, 22-23, May/June 1996.
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Winston, Peggy. Explore a Tropical Forest. 1996.
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Kirkpatrick, Jennifer. “Adventures in Paradise.” Pages 32-35, November 1995.
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Smith, McPaul. “Rain Forest Pharmacy.” Pages 20-23, February 1994.
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Bakker, Eddie. “Return to Hunstein Forest.” Pages 40-63, February 1994.
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Wilson, Edward O. “Rain Forest Canopy: A High Frontier.” Pages 78-107, December 1991.
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Additional Resources
Alexander, Brian. Green Cathedrals. Lyons and Burford, 1995.
Dean, Warren. With Broader and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. University of California Press, 1995.
Grupper, Jonathan. Destination: Rain Forest. Publishers Group West, 1997.
Ketchum, Robert Glenn. The Tongass: Alaska’s Vanishing Rain Forest. Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1987.
Laurance, William F. Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Lewington, Anna. Atlas of Rain Forests. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1997.
Myers, Norman. Rainforests. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Myers, Norman. The Primary Source: Tropical Rainforests and Our Future. Norton, 1992.
Radio Expeditions: “Life on the Brink” Teacher’s Guide. National Public Radio, 1996
Radio Expeditions: “Oceans of Life” Teacher’s Guide. National Public Radio, 1995
Ricciuti, Edward R. Rainforest. Marshall Cavendish, 1996.
Schoonmaker, Peter K. The Rain Forests of Home: Profiles of a North American Bioregion. Island Press, 1997.
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