Endangered Spaces--Prince of Wales

The Dirtbag Diaries

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Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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"It's like being caught in a spiderweb. You'll find yourself pushing with every part of your body, and no part of your body will be able to move. You're totally trapped by--held by plants," says Elsa Sebastian. She bushwhacked through the overgrown clearcuts of Southeast Alaska in a creative effort to defend the remaining old growth on her home island, Prince of Wales, from a proposed bill that would transfer up to 2-million acres of the Tongass National Forest to the State of Alaska. For the fourth installment of our Endangered Spaces series, we follow Elsa and her companions as they trek across the island to see for themselves what's been lost and what remains to be saved.

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1:02.4	That plant matter can be so thick. It's like being caught in a spider web like you'll
1:08.4	find yourself pushing with every part of your body with your knees with your
1:13.5	hips with your chest with your face with your elbows and like no part of your
1:19.2	body will be able to move and you have to at a certain point recognize that
1:23.9	you're totally trapped held by plants and at that point the thing to do is just
1:29.8	like stop moving. You can either fall forward or you can start breaking things off
1:35.4	your body so you can take another step. It's that thick.
1:40.4	This is Elsa Sebastian describing what it's like to move through a 20 to 30-year-old
1:45.8	clear cut in Southeast Alaska. When you think about the forests of Southeast
1:49.8	Alaska everything that's in the understory of an old-growth forest is totally
1:55.2	lacking for light. For one, I mean this is a rainforest so it's always cloudy
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