Is it true that there is a rainforest in Alaska? If so, how is that possible?

zbeckabee

"At 17 million acres (69,000 km²), the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska is the largest national forest in the United States. It is a northern temperate rain forest, remote enough to be the home of many species of flora and fauna considered endangered or rare elsewhere. Created in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it encompasses islands of the Alexander Archipelago, fjords, glaciers, and peaks of the Coastal Range mountains." http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/temprain/trtemprain5.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest Dec 30 06, 7:02 PM

What-A-Mess

Just as Antarctica is a desert. "Because there is little precipitation, except at the coasts, the interior of the continent is technically the largest desert in the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica Dec 31 06, 2:21 AM

Baloo55th

Because a rain forest is just what it says - a forest that has a lot of rain. We hear most about the tropical ones, but not about the ones in colder parts. Less glamourous, perhaps, or less threatened because there are fewer people burning then down to get short-term agricultural plots. There is rain forest in Scotland, Norway, Georgia (not the US one) and many other places. Dec 31 06, 8:17 AM