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Living on thin ice
The Gwich'in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial, others suggest a weakening of what was once a strong and vibrant Native community. Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of the developments that have occurred in the community over the past several decades.
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Alaska's Changing Arctic
The latest volume in the LTER series, this book presents the results and finding of the Long-Term Ecological Research site in the Alaskan Arctic, discussing Arctic ecology from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.
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Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders discussed the practical skills necessary to live in a harsh environment, stressing the ethical and philosophical aspects of the Yup'ik relationship with the land, ocean, snow, weather, and environmental change, among many other elements of the natural world.
At every gathering, at least one elder repeated the Yup'ik adage, \"The world is changing following its people.\" The Yup'ik see environmental change as directly related not just to human actions, such as overfishing or burning fossil fuels, but also to human interactions. The elders encourage young people to learn traditional rules and proper behavior--to act with compassion and restraint--in order to reverse negative impacts on their world. They speak not only to educate young people on the practical skills they need to survive but also on the knowing and responsive nature of the world in which they live.
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Boots, Bikes, and Bombers
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.
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The Nature of Gold
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination.
In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times.
The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as gateway to the Klondike. A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle.
The drama of the miners journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West s last great gold rush.
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Tongass Odyssey
Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal
experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer,
and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's
Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,
the Tongass encompasses the most significant expanse of intact
old-growth temperate rainforest remaining on Earth. Tongass
Odyssey is a cautionary tale of the harm that can result when
science is eclipsed by politics that are focused on short-term
economic gain. Yet even as those problems put the Tongass at risk,
the forest also represents a unique opportunity for conserving
large, intact landscapes with all their ecological parts, including
wild salmon, bears, wolves, eagles, and other wildlife. Combining
elements of personal memoir, field journal, natural history,
conservation essay, and philosophical reflection, Tongass
Odyssey tells an engaging story about an enchanting place.
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Land of Extremes
This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the
North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first
section provides detailed information on climate, geology,
landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the
identification and natural history of the common animals and plants
and a primer on the human prehistory of the region from the
Pleistocene through the mid-twentieth century. The appendix
provides the framework for a tour of the natural history features
along the Dalton Highway, a road connecting the crest of the Brooks
Range with Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and includes mile
markers where travelers may safely pull off to view geologic
formations, plants, birds, mammals, and fish. Featuring hundreds of
illustrations that support the clear, authoritative text,
Land of Extremes reveals the arctic tundra as an
ecosystem teeming with life.
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The Ongoing Challenge of Managing Carbon Monoxide Pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic air pollutant produced largely from vehicle emissions. Breathing CO at high concentrations leads to reduced oxygen transport by hemoglobin, which has health effects that include impaired reaction timing, headaches, lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, weakness, clouding of consciousness, coma, and, at high enough concentrations and long enough exposure, death. In recognition of those health effects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as directed by the Clean Air Act, established the health-based National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for CO in 1971.
Most areas that were previously designated as \"nonattainment\" areas have come into compliance with the NAAQS for CO, but some locations still have difficulty in attaining the CO standards. Those locations tend to have topographical or meteorological characteristics that exacerbate pollution. In view of the challenges posed for some areas to attain compliance with the NAAQS for CO, congress asked the National Research Council to investigate the problem of CO in areas with meteorological and topographical problems. This interim report deals specifically with Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks was chosen as a case study because its meteorological and topographical characteristics make it susceptible to severe winter inversions that trap CO and other pollutants at ground level.
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