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Author | : Arctic Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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"While Alaska is the only U.S. state with land above the Arctic Circle, each of the other 49 states, as well as the District of Columbia, enjoys special links with the Arctic. Each of these- whether scientific, historical, cultural, economic, military, academic, or otherwise- contributes to America's identity as an Arctic nation. It is these connections we sought to highlight through the "Our Arctic Nation" blog in 2016 and now through this book, which features excepts from the blog's 51 entries (all of which can be read in full online). This initiative provided an opportunity for Arctic experts and enthusiasts from across the United States to reveal fascinating- and often surprising- links between our states and the top of our world. We are grateful to the many authors who were willing to share their stories and to the countless others who contributed their time and talent to this effort." -- Page 2, excerpt from text by Ambassador David A. Balton.
Author | : Arctic Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
ISBN | : |
"While Alaska is the only U.S. state with land above the Arctic Circle, each of the other 49 states, as well as the District of Columbia, enjoys special links with the Arctic. Each of these- whether scientific, historical, cultural, economic, military, academic, or otherwise- contributes to America's identity as an Arctic nation. It is these connections we sought to highlight through the "Our Arctic Nation" blog in 2016 and now through this book, which features excepts from the blog's 51 entries (all of which can be read in full online). This initiative provided an opportunity for Arctic experts and enthusiasts from across the United States to reveal fascinating- and often surprising- links between our states and the top of our world. We are grateful to the many authors who were willing to share their stories and to the countless others who contributed their time and talent to this effort." -- Page 2, excerpt from text by Ambassador David A. Balton.
Author | : Finis Dunaway |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2021-04-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 146966111X |
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the improbable story of how the people fought back. At the center of the story is the unlikely figure of Lenny Kohm (1939–2014), a former jazz drummer and aspiring photographer who passionately committed himself to Arctic Refuge activism. With the aid of a trusty slide show, Kohm and representatives of the Gwich'in Nation traveled across the United States to mobilize grassroots opposition to oil drilling. From Indigenous villages north of the Arctic Circle to Capitol Hill and many places in between, this book shows how Kohm and Gwich'in leaders and environmental activists helped build a political movement that transformed the debate into a struggle for environmental justice. In its final weeks, the Trump administration fulfilled a long-sought dream of drilling proponents: leasing much of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain for fossil fuel development. Yet the fight to protect this place is certainly not over. Defending the Arctic Refuge traces the history of a movement that is alive today—and that will continue to galvanize diverse groups to safeguard this threatened land.
Author | : Subhankar Banerjee |
Publisher | : Braided River |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0898864380 |
Photographic documentation of the necessity to preserve this precious area.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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Author | : Stephen Charles Brown |
Publisher | : Braided River |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780898869750 |
Two hundred color images celebrating the birds that journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge each year are accompanied by essays by noted biologists and conservationists.
Author | : Joe Wilkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781612549736 |
Take a trip through some of the most remote, untouched and thrilling wilderness in the United States The Gates of the Arctic National park. In this book of stunning photographs and interesting histories and facts, Joe Wilkins shares the knowledge that he has accumulated through personal experience and adventures about this piece of this country's last frontier.
Author | : |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1594853339 |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2014-04-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309371619 |
Viewed in satellite images as a jagged white coat draped over the top of the globe, the high Arctic appears distant and isolated. But even if you don't live there, don't do business there, and will never travel there, you are closer to the Arctic than you think. Arctic Matters: The Global Connection to Changes in the Arctic is a new educational resource produced by the Polar Research Board of the National Research Council (NRC). It draws upon a large collection of peer-reviewed NRC reports and other national and international reports to provide a brief, reader-friendly primer on the complex ways in which the changes currently affecting the Arctic and its diverse people, resources, and environment can, in turn, affect the entire globe. Topics in the booklet include how climate changes currently underway in the Arctic are a driver for global sea-level rise, offer new prospects for natural resource extraction, and have rippling effects through the world's weather, climate, food supply and economy.
Author | : Caroline Van Hemert |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0316414433 |
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel