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"I Call them my Children - To Myself, Susan."

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"I Call them my Children - To Myself, Susan."

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"I Cannot! It Would Be a Sin! A Fearful Sin!"

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"I Like the Look of a Clear-Cut"--Attributed to a Forest Supervisor at a Public Meeting

For more than 30 years, landscape photography has served as environmental advocacy for Ketchum. In the 1980s, Ketchum photographed Tomgass National Forest in southeastern Alaska, where harmful logging practices like the clear-cutting shown here threatened the ecosystem. Ketchum’s resulting book, The Tongass: Alaska’s Vanishing Rainforest, proved influential in passing the Tongass Timber Reform Act in 1990, which preserved more than one million acres of forest.

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