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“Richard Carstensen is on the left with the floppy hat. He’s a naturalist and a remarkable historian of the Tongass. Sam Skaggs [right] is sort of the businessman, organizer, and pundit, I guess you would say. Behind them are alder shrubs and a landmark stand of Sitka spruce trees, some of them 200 feet [60 meters] high.”

—Christopher Joyce

Photograph by Jessica Goldstein