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Author Ross, Ken, 1937-

Title Pioneering conservation in Alaska / Ken Ross.

Imprint Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2006.
Publication Info. ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
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Series Knowledge Unlatched
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-513) and index.
Summary 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 chapters on predator control, when wildlife managers offered bounties not just for wolves but for eagles, and another on attempted translocations of ungulates, reveal astounding efforts to manipulate ecosystems. Especially useful is his history of the successful efforts to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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.
Language Eng.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject 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.
Nature -- Conservation -- Alaska -- Histoire.
Faune -- Protection -- Alaska -- Histoire.
Naturalistes -- Alaska -- Histoire.
Refuges fauniques -- Alaska -- Histoire.
Parcs nationaux -- Alaska -- Histoire.
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Indians of North America -- Hunting
National parks and reserves
Naturalists
Nature conservation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Wildlife refuges
Alaska https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRq9rTfb3H89Vvrr9x9c
Indexed Term History
Genre/Form History
In: Knowledge Unlatched.
Other Form: Print version: Ross, Ken, 1937- Pioneering conservation in Alaska. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2006 (DLC) 2006030330
ISBN 9781607327141 (electronic bk.)
1607327147 (electronic bk.)
9780870818523
087081852X
9781607326137
1607326132
Standard No. GBVCP 1014944961
UKMGB 021077671

 
    
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