Pioneering Conservation in Alaska

"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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Autor principal: Ross, Ken, 1937- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado 2006
2006.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426261706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.