Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Kaye, Roger

Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781889963839)

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Format: Hardcover
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Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Kaye, Roger

Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

$32.95
Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Kaye, Roger

Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

$32.95
Format: Hardcover
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of the conflict between America's demand for oil and nature at its most pristine. Three decades before the battle over oil development began, a group of visionary conservationists launched a controversial campaign to preserve a remote corner of Alaska. Their goal was unprecedented--to protect an entire ecosystem for future generations. Among these conservationists were Olaus and Margaret Murie, who became icons of the wilderness movement.

Last Great Wilderness chronicles their fight and that of their compatriots, tracing the transformation of this little-known expanse of mountains, forest, and tundra into a symbolic landscape embodying the ideals and aspirations that led to passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.

Author: Roger Kaye
ISBN-10: 1889963836
ISBN-13: 9781889963839
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.42w x 0.99d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 09/01/2006 pg. 53
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Recommended/Regional General
Library Journal 06/26/2006
By Roger Kaye
By Roger Kaye
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Roger Kaye had been a wilderness specialist and airplane pilot with the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for over twenty years. He is an affiliate professor of Northern Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he teaches courses on environmental psychology and wilderness management.

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