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Northern Landscapes - The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska (Paperback, New)
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Northern Landscapes - The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska (Paperback, New)
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List price R848
Loot Price R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
You Save R259 (31%)
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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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