{"id":21599,"date":"2026-09-10T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=21599"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:33:49","slug":"tongass-national-forest-was-created-in-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=21599","title":{"rendered":"Tongass National Forest Was Created in 1907"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21645\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21645\" class=\"wp-image-21645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Mendenhall.jpg\" alt=\"Mendenhall Glacier\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendenhall Glacier<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tongass National Forest was created in the Alaksa panhandle in 1907.<\/strong> The largest national forest in the United States, the Tongass is comprised of 16,700,000 acres of temperate rain forest. The Tongass encompasses nineteen designated winderness areas. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/tongass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tongass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tongass National Forest was created in the Alaksa panhandle in 1907. The largest national forest in the United States, the Tongass is comprised of 16,700,000 acres of temperate rain forest. The Tongass encompasses nineteen designated winderness areas. Children can learn more at: Tongass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[903,6389],"class_list":["post-21599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-alaska","tag-tongass-national-forest","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29707,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions\/29707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}