Author: George F. WillissPublisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
"Do Things Right the First Time"
Author: George F. WillissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Implementation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, Including Perspectives on the Act's Impacts in Alaska and Suggestions for Improvements to the Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
"Do Things Right the First Time"
Author: George F. WillissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
America's National Park System
Author: Lary M. DilsaverPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442256842
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.
Northern Landscapes
Author: Daniel NelsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136524231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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.
The Implementation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, Including Perspectives on the Act's Impacts in Alaska and Suggestions for Improvements to the Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alaska Subsistence
Author: Frank Blaine NorrisPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii.
Battleground Alaska
Author: Stephen HaycoxPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700622152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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 own agendas, specifically the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Haycox builds his history and critique 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.