Author: University of Michigan. School of Natural Resources. Rampart Dam. Alaska Economic Development Project
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
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Rampart Dam and the Economic Development of Alaska [by] Stephen H. Spurr [and Others].
Rampart Dam and the Economic Development of Alaska: Summary report
Author: University of Michigan. School of Natural Resources
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
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Publisher:
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Category : Alaska
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Rampart Dam and the Economic Development of Alaska
Author: University of Michigan. School of Natural Resources
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Rampart Dam and the economic development of Alaska
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
Author: Peter A. Coates
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In 1977 oil began to flow south from the Arctic through the controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). This study considers the TAPS proposal and controversy as an extension (even a culmination) of established processes, policies, and attitudes within Alaska history, American environmental history, and the history of conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In 1977 oil began to flow south from the Arctic through the controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). This study considers the TAPS proposal and controversy as an extension (even a culmination) of established processes, policies, and attitudes within Alaska history, American environmental history, and the history of conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Rampart Dam and the Economic Development of Alaska
Author: University of Michigan. School of Natural Resources
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
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Languages : en
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In Search of the Kuskokwim and Other Great Endeavors
Author: Stephen Josiah Spurr
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 1935347047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The United States knew relatively little about Alaska prior to the turn of the century when the Klondike Gold Rush was about to attract thousands of stampeders north, many of them spilling over into Alaska as more gold was discovered on the Yukon River and her tributaries. The government had few reliable maps of the vast territory it had purchased from Russia thirty years before. The U.S. government commissioned J. Edward Spurr, a geologist, author, and explorer from New England, to mount two expeditions to explore and inventory Alaska, traveling thousand miles by canoe and on foot without benefit of telephones, radios, airplanes. The effort almost killed him, but his efforts helped provide detail to regions that had been largely blank on the Alaska map.
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 1935347047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The United States knew relatively little about Alaska prior to the turn of the century when the Klondike Gold Rush was about to attract thousands of stampeders north, many of them spilling over into Alaska as more gold was discovered on the Yukon River and her tributaries. The government had few reliable maps of the vast territory it had purchased from Russia thirty years before. The U.S. government commissioned J. Edward Spurr, a geologist, author, and explorer from New England, to mount two expeditions to explore and inventory Alaska, traveling thousand miles by canoe and on foot without benefit of telephones, radios, airplanes. The effort almost killed him, but his efforts helped provide detail to regions that had been largely blank on the Alaska map.
Boots, Bikes, and Bombers
Author: Karen Brewster
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp Denali, Alaska’s first wilderness ecotourism lodge; helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state’s first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction and preservation. An innovative and collaborative life history, Boots, Bikes, and Bombers, incorporates the story of friendship between the author and subject. The resulting book is a valuable contribution to the history of Alaska as well as a testament to the joys of living a life full of passion and adventure.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp Denali, Alaska’s first wilderness ecotourism lodge; helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state’s first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction and preservation. An innovative and collaborative life history, Boots, Bikes, and Bombers, incorporates the story of friendship between the author and subject. The resulting book is a valuable contribution to the history of Alaska as well as a testament to the joys of living a life full of passion and adventure.
They Came But Could Not Conquer
Author: Diane J. Purvis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496237579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"In "They Came but Could Not Conquer," Diane J. Purvis reveals the centuries-long histories of environmental destruction and settler violence against Alaska Natives and their villages by successive European empires and states: Russian, British, French, and American"--
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496237579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"In "They Came but Could Not Conquer," Diane J. Purvis reveals the centuries-long histories of environmental destruction and settler violence against Alaska Natives and their villages by successive European empires and states: Russian, British, French, and American"--
Alaska
Author: Stephen W. Haycox
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295746874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with and accommodation to Western culture; the spread of European political economy to the New World; the expansion of American capitalism and culture; and the impacts of climate change. In this updated classic, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox surveys the state’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era, Haycox explores the ever-evolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions that have dominated the area, highlighting Native agency, advocacy, and resilience. Throughout, he emphasizes the region’s systemic dependence on both federal support and outside corporate investment in natural resources—furs, gold, copper, salmon, oil—and offers a less romantic, more complex history that acknowledges the broader national and international contexts of Alaska’s past.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295746874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with and accommodation to Western culture; the spread of European political economy to the New World; the expansion of American capitalism and culture; and the impacts of climate change. In this updated classic, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox surveys the state’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era, Haycox explores the ever-evolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions that have dominated the area, highlighting Native agency, advocacy, and resilience. Throughout, he emphasizes the region’s systemic dependence on both federal support and outside corporate investment in natural resources—furs, gold, copper, salmon, oil—and offers a less romantic, more complex history that acknowledges the broader national and international contexts of Alaska’s past.