Record details

• ISBN: 0062005960
• ISBN: 9780062005960
• ISBN: 9780062005977 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 0062005979 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: x, 576 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Harper, �2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-550) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index.

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Subject:

Nature conservation > Alaska > History.
Environmental protection > Alaska > History.
Conservationists > Alaska > History.