Contents Plates Maps Tables Prologue Acknowledgments Chronology Part I: Early Naturalists and Wildlife Exploitation; Chapter 1. Sea Otters and Scientists; Chapter 2. Fur Seal's Friend: Henry W. Elliott; Chapter 3. Wake of the Whalers; Chapter 4. John Muir and the Land; Chapter 5. The Boone and Crockett Club: George Bird Grinnell, Madison Grant, William T. Hornaday, Charles H. Townsend, Charles Sheldon; Chapter 6. Charles Sheldon and Mt. McKinley National Park; Chapter 7. Robert F. Griggs and Katmai National Monument; Chapter 8. John Muir, William S. Cooper, and Glacier Bay National Monument; Chapter 9. Alaska Natives and Conservation Part II: Wildlife and Wildlife Managers; Chapter 10. Bureau of Biological Survey Chiefs: C. Hart Merriam, Edward W. Nelson, Ira N. Gabrielson; Chapter 11. Alaskan Wildlife Managers: Frank Dufresne, Clarence Rhode, Jim Brooks, Jim King; Chapter 12. Grizzly Bears in Politics; Chapter 13. Frontier Justice: Predator Control; Chapter 14. Game and Fur Mammals; Chapter 15. Journey of the Salmon; Chapter 16. Gold and Oil on the Kenai; Chapter 17. Bob Marshall, Olaus and Margaret Murie, and the Arctic Refuge; Chapter 18. Evolution of Conservation Values Notes Works Employed Index
Ken Ross is professor emeritus of political science at Adrian College.
"Designed as a companion to his Environmental Conflict in Alaska
(2001), which presented the environmental issues of Alaska's
statehood period, the newest study by Ross provides an in-depth
view of the resource management controversies in Alaska up to
statehood in 1958. Ross's chapters on predator control, when
wildlife managers offered bounties not just for wolves but for
eagles, and another on attempted translocations of ungulates,
reveal astounding efforts to manipulate ecosystems. Especially
useful is his history of the successful efforts to preserve the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge... Recommended. All readership
levels."
--CHOICE Magazine
"Ken Ross...establishes himself as the foremost authority on a
century's efforts to save Alaska from itself. Ross's book, like his
earlier work, is most valuable as a reference work and a guide to
the literature. Few states have been so well served by a single
scholar."
--Daniel Nelson, Western Historical Quarterly
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