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Description: |
xiv, 576 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Prologue : John Muir and the gospel of glaciers -- Odyssey of the snowy owl -- Theodore Roosevelt's conservation doctrine -- The Pinchot-Ballinger feud -- Bull Moose crusade -- Charles Sheldon's fierce fight -- Our vanishing wildlife -- The Lake Clark pact -- Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent -- The new wilderness generation -- Warren G. Harding : backlash -- Bob Marshall and the Gates of the Arctic -- Those amazing Muries -- Will the wolf survive? -- William O. Douglas and New Deal conservation -- Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, and the lady bush pilots -- Pribilof seals, Walt Disney, and the arctic wolves of Lois Crisler -- The Arctic Range and Aldo Leopold -- The Sheenjek Expedition of 1956 -- Dharma wilderness -- Of hoboes, barefooters, and the open road -- Sea Otter Jones and Musk-Ox Matthiessen -- Rachel Carson's alarm -- Selling the Arctic Refuge -- Arctic forever. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events. |
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Index - Genre/Form: |
History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 |