| Portion of title |
Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 |
| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index. |
| Credits | Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780062005960 |
| ISBN | 0062005960 |
