Tongass National Forest| Northernmost Rainforest in the World | Love Nature

We filmed this amazing footage in the Tongass National Forest, the largest protected rainforest in the United States and the northernmost rainforest in the world. The forest includes most of Alaska’s panhandle near the top of the earth.
In this short nature documentary, we explore how it’s possible that a rainforest exists this close to the top of the Earth. In a place once covered in ice, not much soil was left behind after the glaciers receded. But trees with a rare ability to pump nitrogen into the ground supply life to the rainforest. Drenched in fog, mist, and rain, precipitation hangs heavy in the air. Alaska’s biodiversity of plant life is living testament to the health of the air, water, and soil in Tongass National Forest.
We float magically through the understory as state-of-the-art dactylcam flies us past rainforest ferns in this gorgeous aerial photography. We take a scenic tour through the ancient old growth forest of the Tongass, where 200-foot trees live over 800 years. See the assortment of life that’s sustained when these mighty trees finally fall to the forest floor. They continue to enrich the rainforest and prompt the cycle of growth to begin again, including species as varied as coastal brown bears, bald eagles, and salmon
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[@user-tz5uq2bt1s]

Everyone has their own preferences, but to me, there is nothing more beautiful than a coastal, mountainous, temperate rainforest.

[@WaterPickle]

I agree

[@boblove6865]

Having tasted the air in the Tongass I completely agree.

[@chriskeller3705]

My family visited my great aunt and uncle in Juneau back in July 2014. I spent hours walking around in the forest. I was shocked at how different the landscape, vegetation, and climate was compared to my hometown near Houston. Just pure anadultered natural beauty.

[@lovenature]

That's beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[@leonmonderer]

Let's keep the forest growing. The world needs it more than ever.

[@warrior7038]

@SE Gaming But right at the beginning of the video they say it's a national protected forest.

[@tparker2095]

@@warrior7038 Have you watched the news? Thanks to the Trump Administration, we could be saying goodbye in the next few weeks.

[@warrior7038]

@@tparker2095 LOL you trust the news? Always trynna blame it on Trump right mr. Leftie?

[@68Downtown]

@@warrior7038 actually, he is directly to blame. He personally went to visit their governor to get mining agreed to, and a roadway for huge vehicles through the middle of what im guessing is this formerly protected land. He has also allowed oil, & lng Co's to do their thing in over 270 acres of federal protected land, not counting alaska. Also allowing them to no longer look maintain where they've already worked, allowing methane gas to just go into the air. Alaska has a salmon run that is up to now untouched, not all dammed up. They call some salmon alaskan, but they are really from the PNW, alaska is part of their run tho. That run is going to pay, big, for the mining project. Not to mention its filthy. The killer whales that normally live in the Puget Sound, and BC Canada have been starving to death for a number of years now as the salmon they eat are over fished, but allocated only to commercial & sport fishing, and tribes. None are allocated for the animals that depend on them for thousands of years. Approx 170+ animals, including grizzlys. Its quite sad, that allocation includes hatchery fish, that are much less nutrient dense anyway. Sorry for the novel, but the answer is the space in the video, is directy the fault of the president.

[@tparker2095]

@@warrior7038 You're a fucking idiot.

[@rajbahadur665]

Anyone will get the desire to visit once in life time. The divine beauty of Alaska 💞😍

[@musiclover-tf6fu]

*Certainly appears to be an amazingly beautiful place to visit! 😍*

[@violina48]

Really amazing! Thank you!

[@LL-sq8se]

Beautiful! Thanks 👍🙋🕊️🌟

[@cassandracandyface5005]

Beautiful! 😍

[@loquatmuncher]

How cool. Id like to visit someday.

[@viesun9738]

Magnifique!! 🌿😘

[@272jenelle]

Beautiful

[@deepgill4215]

Great ..

[@DuyNguyen-ly2dx]

Nature sunset , oách nhớ

[@DuyNguyen-ly2dx]

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[@joke_r8363]

Thx for the class

[@chickenflavor9880]

Im gonna live hear

[@limadaniel9096]

Love the forest

[@aldebaranredstar]

The government Just approved logging in the Tongass😢

[@pewpewparamedic8255]

It’s a complicated issue. I’m from Alaska. A majority of our communities rely on local resource farming and agriculture, even including using wood from local forests. All of my cousins are commercial fisherman and my aunt and uncle own a large farm with horses and other animals and most of our furniture we built or comes from local friends or family that also build furniture from local forests. It’s such a wildly different way of life that none of you would understand unless you moved there. I do see the negative aspect about removing part of the forest too though. Just understand, it’s a very, very rural community in this area of Alaska and living off of the land is something probably 90% of Americans would never comprehend because everything you buy is from a target or ikea. You have zero work to do haha. Always remember there are two sides to every story. The media paints this as some big greedy industrial overload coming in and creating havoc when really most Alaskans want to expand our freedom to live off of the land without restrictions.

[@bobbeckhart1707]

I have 23yrs your relatives that fish GONE salmon will not spawn in mud. Salmon spawn every year takes a couple of decades to grow trees not much of a trade off

[@pewpewparamedic8255]

@@bobbeckhart1707 calm down, old man. they're not tearing down the whole fuckin forest. it's a small percentage of it. if you're such an advocate for forestation, where the heck were you for other rainforest protests around the world? suddenly CNN plays a 30 sec story of it and now you find some new-found courage to be an environmentalist activist for all trees everywhere?

[@theflyingsheepcircus]

Norway has just cultivated planted forest fields left. It kills diversity by a lot! Dont chop down tongass. Old forest is important and holds species, herbs, plants and animals that will be scarce with forestry forests! Natural forests is important!

[@playgt326]

That's life, she gives you life, she's a luxury in the great circle of life ;).

[@68Downtown]

Its also life when the animals that do important jobs in their eco systems become extinct because they live on a piece of land, or eat something that ppl can profit from in aby way, and they lose that battle. Everything is connected in the end. We need the planet to be healthy to some degree in order to live here as well.

[@playgt326]

@@68Downtown That's why I recycle my trash, i transform trash to raw materials, in USA you need to make retornable bottle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and whatever sodas in glass and retornable bottles, like in Chile (my home).

[@68Downtown]

@@playgt326 i would love that, but its cheaper for the companies to make them in plastic. We used to have all n glass bottles hereas well

[@cascadiannationalpatriotic9746]

@@playgt326 chile has a really low recycling rate from what I've heard, is that true?

[@playgt326]

@@cascadiannationalpatriotic9746 I don't know, I'm Chilean and i recycle my waste.

[@ParkerThomasAlberta]

coastal black bears are allso found in BC Canada, not just Alaska,(the great bear rainforest)

[@tanyawinstanley1278]

cool

[@sarakhayyat7634]

I LIVE IN SOUTH EAST ALASKA I LOVE YOU TONGASS FOREST IM PROULD TO NE AN ALASKAN

[@aymondray9794]

If anyone wants real education on the Tongass, please reach out to Tlingit or Haida tribes of the area. They will also have a better understanding than an industry person or a conservation person.

[@PaulLangan1]

Please join me in protecting the largest US National Forest, The Tongass. The 2001 Roadless Rule has so far protected the 9.2 Million acres of National forest from timber clear-cutting. Records show the federal government tasked with rewriting Tongass rules, also funded Alaska timber group. Today I emailed and phoned Alaskan Senator, Lisa Murkowski urging her to support keeping the 2001 Roadless rule in place. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is in the middle of making a crucial decision about how it manages the Tongass National Forest. In 2018, the state of Alaska was granted millions of dollars in federal funds to help facilitate dialogue about potential changes to the Roadless Rule, which could open up new areas of the Tongass to old-growth logging. But a state records request reveals that a timber industry group was paid out of that grant for additional input, and some people involved in the rule-making process say that’s not fair. Follow the link below to read about the Tongass Forest Roadless rewrite process.

[@leoraine5855]

More like tongiss. the way she says it is atrocious

[@sidneyantonio4773]

BOLSONARO 2022 BRAZIL :) :)

[@jowendel1155]

Nice video, but please, please pronounce Tongass correctly. The pronunciation here is painful to the ears.

[@TJDuffy-ip3ue]

I live here. It's pronounced TONG-iss, not tong-ASS! Do some research next time.

[@ahimcahkorjo8663]

Hopefully nothing ilegal logging

[@katehelfrich9029]

Don't let Trump chop it down.

[@weederminb7671]

Stop trump this is 9.2 million acres of old growth and new. When are we just going to leave land alone do we all want to be the only ones with just farm land around us nothing els. Biggest problem no one ever talks about is POPULATION the future is getting shorter.

[@G_Silent]

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[@xxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

The Tong-ASS? LOL. I can't even watch this with the mispronunciation.

[@RARA64HUNNID]

Tim Pool brought me here

[@selay333]

Same, I had to check I wasn't being bullshited.

[@RARA64HUNNID]

@@selay333 😂

[@screwedagain1]

If Trump has his way this old growth forest will be gone. He wants clear cutting, roads and mining operations. And he's pushing hard to make it happen.

[@Craig969]

Trump 2024 I hope he gets his way good bye trees 🎉🎉🎉

[@moth300]

Don’t reply to the troll

[@birdlynn417]

She is pronouncing the great word, "Tongass" wrong. Can't bare hearing her abusive it especially when I lived there 15 years. ha-ha!

[@cynthiabonville457]

Okay, pronounce the name properly or don't say it. Not Tong-ass or Tong-gas, try Tongus. Jesus Cristi.. And muskeg? WTF, it is not musk-gag but muskeg. And to show the water, the forest, one must introduce the mists rising and the snow pack which is also important. It's like y'all never lived there. Oh, yeah, ya didn't.

[@moth300]

Calm down.