Landscapes of Alaska
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Alaska
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Alaska
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Author : Howel Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520310489
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.
Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136524231
Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In l958 Congress awarded the new state over 100 million acres to promote economic development. In 1971, it gave Native groups more than 40 million acres to settle land claims and facilitate the building of an 800-mile oil pipeline. Spurred by the newly militant environmental movement, it also began to consider the preservation of Alaska's magnificent scenery and wildlife. Northern Landscapes is an essential guide to Alaska's recent past and to contemporary local and national debates over the future of public lands and resources. It is the first comprehensive examination of the campaign to preserve wild Alaska through the creation of a vast system of parks and wildlife refuges. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, Daniel Nelson traces disputes over resources alongside the politics of the Alaska statehood movement. He provides in-depth coverage of the growth of Alaskan environmental organizations, their partnerships with national groups, and their participation in political campaigns into the 1970s and after. Engagingly written, Northern Landscapes focuses on efforts to persuade public officials to recognize the value of Alaska's mountains, forests, and wildlife. That activity culminated in the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980, which set aside more than 100 million acres, doubling the size of the national park and wildlife refuge systems, and tripling the size of the wilderness preservation system. Arguably the single greatest triumph of environmentalism, ANILCA also set the stage for continuing battles over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's national forests.
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Geochemistry
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Geology
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Author : Art Wolfe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9781570616440
Over 130 images, paired with essays from Nick Jans, record the splendor of this great American wilderness. Full color.
Author : Jan Sovak
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486452212
Wolves, grizzlies, beluga whales, and other awesome creatures roam their native habitats in this fun-to-color collection of 30 accurately rendered drawings.
Author : Dave Atcheson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1426207700
"In more than 80 photographs... Hidden Alaska celebrates one of America's last great natural wonders, from its spectacular mountains and watersheds to its native peoples and wealth of wildlife. Encompassing 40,000 square mile and eight river system, Bristol Bay is a remote realm"--Jacket.
Author : Robert Campbell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0812201523
Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curtis—and the long forgotten—a gay ex-sailor, a former society reporter, an African explorer, and a neurasthenic Methodist minister—returned with fascinating accounts of their Alaskan journeys, becoming advance men and women for an expanding United States. In Darkest Alaska explores the popular images conjured by these travelers' tales, as well as their influence on the broader society. Drawing on lively firsthand accounts, archival photographs, maps, and other ephemera of the day, historian Robert Campbell chronicles how Gilded Age sightseers were inspired by Alaska's bounty of evolutionary treasures, tribal artifacts, geological riches, and novel thrills to produce a wealth of highly imaginative reportage about the territory. By portraying the territory as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest, tourists helped pave the way for settlement and exploitation.
Author : Nick Jans
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9781880865200
Celebrate Alaska, A land so grand and wide and far...Mark Kelley and Nick Jans are at it again, and this time for the kid in all of us! With beautiful photography and rhyming verse that makes you smile, Mark and Nick express their deep passion for Alaska in a kid book that deserves a place on your coffee table.