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    The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley.
    by Brinkley, Douglas.
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    New York : Harper, c2011.
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  • Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.
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  • Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History.
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  • Conservationists -- Alaska -- History.
  • ISBN: 
    9780062005960
    0062005960
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    x, 576 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
    Edition: 
    1st ed.
    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.
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    A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
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    Hawaii State LibraryBusiness, Science & Technology333.72097 BrChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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