Pioneering Conservation in Alaska / Ken Ross.
"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�...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder, Colo. : : University Press of Colorado,, 2006. ©2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 540 pages) :; illustrations (black and white), maps; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Early naturalists and wildlife exploitation
- 1. Sea otters and scientists
- 2. Fur seal's friend: Henry W. Elliott
- 3. Wake of the whalers
- 4. John Muir and the land
- 5. The Boone and Crockett club: George Bird Grinnell, Madison Grant, William T. Hornaday, Charles H. Townsend, Charles Sheldon
- 6. Charles Sheldon and Mt. McKinley National Park
- 7. Robert F. Griggs and Katmai National Monument
- 8. John Muir, William S. Cooper, and Glacier Bay National Monument
- 9. Alaska Natives and conservation
- part II. Wildlife and wildlife managers
- 10. Bureau of Biological Survey Chiefs: C. Hart Merriam, Edward W. Nelson, Ira N. Gabrielson
- 11. Alaskan wildlife managers: Frank Dufresne, Clarence Rhode, Jim Brooks, Jim King
- 12. Grizzly bears in politics
- 13. Frontier justice: predator control
- 14. Game and fur mammals
- 15. Journey of the salmon
- 16. Gold and oil on the Kenai
- 17. Bob Marshall, Olaus and Margaret Murie, and the Arctic Refuge
- 18. Evolution of conservation values.