Waterfall in Rainforest, Tongass National Forest, Near Sitka, Alaska August 2006

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As with all rainforests, water is plentiful. In the Tongass, there is running water and muskegs, a kind of bog or swamp. Muskegs are dangerous because they present a surface of short grasses to the unwary who fall into hidden bodies of water underneath.