Alaska's Brooks Range

by Kauffmann, John

• ISBN13: 9780898863475
• ISBN10: 0898863473
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

Alaska's Brooks Range: The Ultimate Mountains looks at the many facets that make this region so provocative and so worthy of our strongest preservation efforts. It explores the geologic origins of some of the most desolate beauty on earth; the native inhabitants-both man and animal-whose age-old methods of survival have been altered by the winds from the lower 48; and the human history, from the early British military explorers to gold panners to the geographers who first mapped the Arctic wilderness.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 9
Thrust of the North: Behold the Brooks Range	p. 13
People of the Weather: Human culture in the north	p. 31
Exploration: Military men, geologists, biologists, and miners	p. 47
Then Came Bob Marshall: Adventures and philosophy	p. 69
Range Writings: The literature of Brooks Range experience	p. 79
Arctic Refuge, Yukon Park: Protecting arctic wildlife habitat	p. 97
Knocking at the Gates: Proposals form for central Brooks Range parklands	p. 113
Entering the Gates: Planning concepts for a wilderness	p. 123
Deep Within: Getting to know the territory - fruits of planning	p. 143
Epilogue: Since ANILCA	p. 159
The Brooks Range (Poem)	p. 171
Geography	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 184
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