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Battleground Alaska - Fighting Federal Power in America’sLast Wilderness (Hardcover)
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Battleground Alaska - Fighting Federal Power in America’sLast Wilderness (Hardcover)
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No American state is more antistatist than Alaska. And no state
takes in more federal money per capita, which accounts for a full
third of Alaska’s economy. This seeming paradox underlies the
story Stephen Haycox tells in Battleground Alaska, a history of the
fraught dynamic between development and environmental regulation in
a state aptly dubbed “The Last Frontier.” Examining
inconvenient truths, the book investigates the genesis and
persistence of the oft-heard claim that Congress has trampled
Alaska’s sovereignty with its management of the state’s
pristine wilderness. At the same time it debunks the myth of an
inviolable Alaska statehood compact at the center of this claim.
Unique, isolated, and remote, Alaska’s economy depends as much on
absentee corporate exploitation of its natural resources,
particularly oil, as it does on federal spending. This dependency
forces Alaskans to endorse any economic development in the state,
putting them in conflict with restrictive environmental constraint.
Battleground Alaska reveals how Alaskans’ abiding resentment of
federal regulation and control has exacerbated the tensions and
political sparring between these camps— and how Alaska’s
leaders have exploited this antistatist sentiment to promote their
ownagendas, specifically the opening of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Haycox builds his history
andcritique around four now classic environmental battles in modern
Alaska: the establishment of the ANWR is the 1950s; the
construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in the 1970s; the passage
of the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act in 1980;
and the struggle that culminated in the Tongass Timber Reform Act
of 1990. What emerges is a complex tale, with no clear-cut villains
and heroes, that explains why Alaskans as a collective almost
always opt for development, even as they profess their genuine love
for the beauty and bounty of their state’s environment. Yet even
as it exposes the potential folly of this practice, Haycox’s work
reminds environmentalists that all wilderness is inhabited, and
that human life depends—as it always has—on the exploitation of
the earth’s resources.
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