Editing Tongass National Forest (section)

==Description==
Known by the U.S. Forest Service as the "crown jewel", the Tongass stretches across 17&nbsp;million acres of land and is Alaska's largest National Forest.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://wilderness.org/blog/economic-realities-tongass-national-forest|title=Economic Realities in the Tongass National Forest|access-date=2018-05-10|language=en|archive-date=11 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511081320/https://wilderness.org/blog/economic-realities-tongass-national-forest|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alaska Wilderness League describes the Tongass as "one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Tongass-77-1pagerFINAL.pdf|title=The Tongass National Forest: Recreationalists' Paradise and Wildlife Lover's Dream|author=Alaska Wilderness League }}</ref> 70,000 people inhabit the region.<ref name=":0" /> While the timber industry dominated the economy for a long time, the region has transitioned into "non-timber... [sources of revenue] such as recreation, subsistence food, salmon, scientific use, and [[carbon sequestration]] [which] contributes more than $2 billion" annually.<ref name=":0" />{{r|LAT 2019-09-06}} Tourism supports over 10,000 jobs in the Tongass National Forest, with about 10% being related to fishing activities.<ref name=":1" />

Three [[Alaska Natives|Alaska Native]] nations live in Southeast Alaska: the [[Tlingit people|Tlingit]], [[Haida people|Haida]], and [[Tsimshian]]. Thirty-one communities are located within the forest; the largest is [[Juneau City and Borough, Alaska|Juneau]], the state capital, with a population of 31,000. The forest is named for the Tongass group of the Tlingit people, who inhabited the southernmost areas of Southeast Alaska, near what is now the city of [[Ketchikan, Alaska|Ketchikan]].