Author: Publisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Alaskan Region
Author: Alaskan region
Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories
Author: Eric HulténPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804706438
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
This monumental work by the world's preeminent authority on Arctic floras--the first comprehensive, up-to-date botanic manual for this region--is the product of the author's more than forty years of study of circumpolar floras. The book describes and illustrates all flowering plants and vascular cryptograms known to occur in Alaska, the Yukon, the Mackenzie District, and the eastern extremity of Siberia. Some 1,974 taxa, belonging to 1,559 species, occur in this region; all are described. For 1,735 of these, the book provides detailed description, nomenclature, plant drawing, and range maps. In each case, one map gives distribution in the Alaskan region; a second, on circumpolar projection, gives worldwide range. This volume is the first major flora to assemble such comprehensive range data and to provide such maps. An analytic key to all species described is provided for each genus, and there is an artificial key to families. An Introduction describes the past and present climatic, geologic, and ecologic character of the regions covered, the history of botanical collection in these regions, and the book's treatment of botanical and taxonomic details; and lists the plants of neighboring regions likely to occur. Glossary, plant authors' list, bibliography, and indexes are provided. The superb drawings were prepared by Dagny Tande-Lid, and eight pages of illustration in color are included.
Alaskan Region 10-year Plan
Author: United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Alaskan RegionPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This plan ... expresses a Regional assessment of existing and anticipated aviation needs in Alaska ...
Alaskan Region Ten-year Plan FY 1977 - FY 1986
Author: United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Alaska RegionPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Alaska Region
Author: United States. Forest Service. Alaska RegionPublisher:
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Category : Forestry services
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Are the Inuit Ever Cold? : Exploring the Alaskan Region | 3rd Grade Social Studies | Children's Geography & Cultures Books
Author: Baby ProfessorPublisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1541978609
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Read about Alaska, in the context of the Inuits. Learn about the geography of the state of Alaska, including its climate and landscape. Understand how these truths shaped the lives of the Inuit throughout history. At the end of the book, you will learn to appreciate the Alaskan Inuit for their strength and resourcefulness as a people despite the harsh climate of the Arctic region that Alaska is in.
The Alaskan Region
Author: Chugach National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan
Author: United States. Forest Service. Alaska RegionPublisher:
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Category : Chugach National Forest (Agency : U.S.).
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Along Alaska's Great River
Author: Frederick Gustavus SchwatkaPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465607846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This Alaskan exploring expedition was composed of the following members: Lieut. Schwatka, U.S.A., commanding; Dr. George F. Wilson, U.S.A., Surgeon; Topographical Assistant Charles A. Homan, U.S. Engineers, Topographer and Photographer; Sergeant Charles A. Gloster, U.S.A., Artist; Corporal Shircliff, U.S.A., in charge of stores; Private Roth, assistant, and Citizen J. B. McIntosh, a miner, who had lived in Alaska and was well acquainted with its methods of travel. Indians and others were added and discharged from time to time as hereafter noted. The main object of the expedition was to acquire such information of the country traversed and its wild inhabitants as would be valuable to the military authorities in the future, and as a map would be needful to illustrate such information well, the party's efforts were rewarded with making the expedition successful in a geographical sense. I had hoped to be able, through qualified subordinates, to extend our scientific knowledge of the country explored, especially in regard to its botany, geology, natural history, etc.; and, although these subjects would not in any event have been adequately discussed in a popular treatise like the present, it must be admitted that little was accomplished in these branches. The explanation of this is as follows: When authority was asked from Congress for a sum of money to make such explorations under military supervision and the request was disapproved by the General of the Army and Secretary of War. This disapproval, combined with the active opposition of government departments which were assigned to work of the same general character and coupled with the reluctance of Congress to make any appropriations whatever that year, was sufficient to kill such an undertaking. When the military were withdrawn from Alaska by the President, about the year 1878, a paragraph appeared at the end of the President's order stating that no further control would be exercised by the army in Alaska; and this proviso was variously interpreted by the friends of the army and its enemies, as a humiliation either to the army or to the President, according to the private belief of the commentator. It was therefore seriously debated whether any military expedition or party sent into that country for any purpose whatever would not be a direct violation of the President's proscriptive order, and when it was decided to waive that consideration, and send in a party, it was considered too much of a responsibility to add any specialists in science, with the disapproval of the General and the Secretary hardly dry on the paper. The expedition was therefore, to avoid being recalled, kept as secret as possible, and when, on May 22d, it departed from Portland, Oregon, upon the Victoria, a vessel which had been specially put on the Alaska route, only a two or three line notice had gotten into the Oregon papers announcing the fact; a notice that in spreading was referred to in print by one government official as "a junketing party," by another as a "prospecting" party, while another bitterly acknowledged that had he received another day's intimation he could have had the party recalled by the authorities at Washington. Thus the little expedition which gave the first complete survey to the third river of our country stole away like a thief in the night and with far less money in its hands to conduct it through its long journey than was afterward appropriated by Congress to publish its report.