Pioneering conservation in Alaska

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Designed as a companion to his "Environmental Conflict in Alaska" (2001), which presented the environmental issues of Alaska's statehood period, the newest study by Ross provides an in-depth view of the resource management controversies in Alaska up to statehood in 1958. Ross's c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Ken, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2006.
©2006
Series:Knowledge Unlatched
Subjects:
Nature conservation > Alaska > History.
Wildlife conservation > Alaska > History.
Wildlife management > Alaska > History.
Naturalists > Alaska > History.
Indians of North America > Hunting > Alaska.
Wildlife refuges > Alaska > History.
National parks and reserves > Alaska > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Full text (Open Access)
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Early naturalists and wildlife exploitation
  • Sea otters and scientists
  • Fur seal's friend: Henry W. Elliott
  • Wake of the whalers
  • John Muir and the land
  • The Boone and Crockett Club: George Bird Grinnell, Madison Grant, William T. Hornaday, Charles H. Townsend, Charles Sheldon
  • Charles Sheldon and Mr. McKinley National Park
  • Robert F. Griggs and Karmai National Monument
  • John Muir, William S. Cooper, and Glacier Bay National Monument
  • Alaska natives and conservation
  • Part II: Wildlife and wildlife managers
  • Bureau of Biological Survey Chiefs: C. Hart Merriam, Edward W. Nelson, Ira N. Gabrielson
  • Alaska Wildlife managers: Frank Dufresne, Clarence Rhode, Jim Brooks, Jim King
  • Grizzly bears in politics
  • Frontier justice: predator control
  • Game and fur mammals
  • Journey of the salmon
  • Gold and oil on the Kenai
  • Bob Marshall, Olaus and Margaret Murie, and the Arctic Refuge
  • Evolution of conservation values.

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