Did you know that 70 percent of wild salmon harvested from national forests in the US is from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska? Today, hundreds of scientists asked Congress to permanently protect Tongass watersheds important for salmon http://bit.ly/13iGluN. Protecting these watersheds would also help birds such as the Queen Charlotte Goshawk and Marbled Murrelet (like this juvenile in this US Fish & Wildlife Service photo by Rich MacIntosh), both of which rely on old-growth forest.
By Beth Peluso
June 10, 2013
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.