Alaska's First Wolf Controversy
Author | : Timothy Mark Rawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Timothy Mark Rawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) |
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Author | : Jim Rearden |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0882409336 |
Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details with historical accuracy the controversy that erupted when the 1975 program was announced. Counterpointing the modern controversy, Rearden includes exciting segments of his best-selling Alaska's Wolf Man, the story of Frank Glaser, Alaska's full-time government wolf hunter who hunted wolves in the Territory of Alaska 1915-1955. Alaska’s wolves are the main characters in this historically and biologically accurate recounting. Included are vivid anecdotes about wolves with descriptions of their behavior and way of life, examples of their intelligence, and expressions of appreciation for their charm and beauty, as well as an honest look at their savage efficiency as predators and relationship to urban and rural Alaskans.
Author | : Bruce Hampton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997-11-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780805055283 |
For more than 300 years, the wolf was North America's most reviled beast, pursued to the brink of extinction throughout the United States. Then, within the last half-century, public opinion changed and the wolf became the symbol of the wilderness, tolerated and even desired over much of its former range. insert. 2 maps.
Author | : Marybeth Holleman |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1602232199 |
Alaska’s wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali’s wolves. He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber’s writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies. Haber’s field notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to fascinate and polarize people, and Haber’s work continues to resonate.
Author | : Adolph Murie |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0295802693 |
In the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on this cunning and powerful animal when cattle replaced the buffalo on the western plains, reducing the wolf’s range to those few areas in the Far North where economic necessity did not call for its extinction. Between 1939 and 1941, Adolph Murie, one of North America’s greatest naturalists, made a field study of the relationship between wolves and Dall sheep in Mount McKinley National Park (since renamed Denali National Park) which has come to be respected as a classic work of natural history. In this study Murie not only described the life cycle of Alaskan wolves in greater detail than has ever been done, but he discovered a great deal about the entire ecological network of predator and prey. The issues surrounding the survival of the wolf and its prey are more important today than ever, and Murie helps us understand the careful balance that must be maintained to ensure that these magnificent animals prosper. Originally available only in government publications which are long out-of-print, this account of a much maligned animal is now available in its first popular edition.
Author | : Jean Craighead George |
Publisher | : HarperTrophy |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780060739447 |
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Author | : Alan MacLean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781686191053 |
During the 90s the reality experienced by western Alaskans clashed with "environmental" extremists who insisted that predator control, specifically wolf population management, was inhumane, wrong, and politically incorrect. Backed by media, who prospered from the manufactured controversy, the extremists left their mark that remains to this day. That mark was an ugly footprint that violated the lifestyles and future of rural Alaskans. That violation, and the lessons gleaned from it, can easily be applied to issues today. May we now and forever know that managing resources with emotion and media are deadly, deceptive, and harmful, with long-term negative consequences for all involved and concerned.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Gray wolf |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ken Ross |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2017-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1607327147 |
A companion volume to Environmental Conflict in Alaska, Pioneering Conservation in Alaska chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras. The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could without regard for long-term consequences. Wildlife species, ecosystems, and Native cultures suffered, sometimes irreparably. Damage to wildlife and lands drew the attention of environmentalists, including John Muir, who applied their influence to enact wildlife protection laws and set aside lands for conservation. Alaska served as a testing ground for emergent national resource policy in the United States, as environmental values of species and ecosystem sustainability replaced the unrestrained exploitation of Alaska's early frontier days. Efforts of conservation leaders and the territory's isolation, small human population, and late development prevented widespread destruction and gave Americans a unique opportunity to protect some of the world's most pristine wilderness. Enhanced by more than 100 photographs, Pioneering Conservation in Alaska illustrates the historical precedents for current natural resource disputes in Alaska and will fascinate readers interested in wildlife and conservation.
Author | : L. David Mech |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2003-05-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780816629596 |
For more than nine years the wolves in Alaska's Denali National Park were the subject of intense research by a group of renowned scientists led by L. David Mech. The result of their work is the most comprehensive study of a population of wolves and their prey ever available. This accessible, fascinating, and extensively illustrated book will appeal to researchers, general readers, and wolf enthusiasts across the world.