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Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska

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Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska - Nelson, Daniel
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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 ...

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Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska 2004, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781891853845

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Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska 2004, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781891853852

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