Download or read book A History of Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by Bruce W. Black and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History of Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by Gregory Paul Streveler and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Contribution to the History of the Glacier Bay National Monument written by William Skinner Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Year in the National Parks written by Stefanie Payne and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
Download or read book Land Reborn written by Theodor Catton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Land Reborn: A History of Administration and Visitor Use in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a cultural creation. The American people invented the national park idea to preserve large pieces of nature, but nature itself is a culturally defined concept imbued with different meanings by different peoples. John Muir, one of the first Americans to explore Glacier Bay, held a view of nature that contrasted both with the views of his Tlingit Indian guides and the thinking of his white contemporaries who came to southeast Alaska seeking gold and sea otter pelts. Ecologist William S. Cooper, whose appreciation of nature propelled the movement to establish Glacier Bay National Monument, focused upon the relationship of plant communities to glacier recession; but citizens of the territory of Alaska who opposed th national monument conceived of nature as a storehouse of minerals, timber, and arable soil to be used and cultivated. Concepts of nature not only vary among people and cultures, they have changed significantly over time. Today's Tlingits of the village of Hoonah, whose ancestors claimed Glacier Bay as their hunting and fishing grounds, view their relationship to the area differently from their forebears, not only as a result of their dispossession of the land, but because they have integrated their subsistence lifeways into a culture that is oriented around commercial fishing. The cruise ship passengers of today marvel at the sight of tidewater glaciers calving icebergs into the bay just as excursionists on steamships did in the 18805 and 18903. But wilderness now appears to them more threatened than threatening, and they are likely to embrace certain environmental values, such as the preservation of endangered species or clean air, that were unknown in the nineteenth century. Modern recreationists in Glacier Bay-boaters, kayakers, and backpackers-may define nature according to their success in achieving solitude. This is a culturally determined quality that was either irrelevant to or taken for granted by earlier generations of recreationists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire written by Kim Heacox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world. December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam. Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.
Download or read book Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by United States Marine Mammal Commission and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Final Interpretive Prospectus Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archeology of the Glacier Bay Region Southeastern Alaska written by Robert E. Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mineral Resources of Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glacier Bay written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists largely of photographs taken in Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska.
Download or read book Islands of the Seals written by Bruce Molnia and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mineral Resources of Glacier Bay National Monument Alaska written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
