WILD LANDS_ALASKA: TONGASS FOREST_1
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Lichens, glowing with the rising sun, hang from the branches of Spruce and Hemlock trees at forests edge. The Tongass Forest, a temperate rain forest, is the perfect environment to support, mosses, lichens and fungas, due to its cool, wet environment.
It take hundreds of years to produce lichens such as these.
