Northern landscapes the struggle for wilderness Alaska
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 f...
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Resources for the Future
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Northern Landscapes; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Washington, December 1980; Part I: Seedtime: Alaska To The 1960s; 1. The Emergence Of Alaska; 2. Conservation In Transition; Part II: Wilderness Politics: Alaska, 1960s-1976; 3. Alaska Upheavals; 4. Congressional Responses; 5. Southeast Alaska And The Wilderness Movement; 6. Oil Age Discontents; Part III: The Anilca Campaign: Alaska And Washington, 1977-1980; 7. Congress Deliberates; 8. Birth Of Anilca; Postscript: Alaska In The 1980s And Beyond; Notes; Index
