The development of wildlife management policies and big game hunting in Alaska, the people and politics, including impacts arising from the 1940'

James W. Brooks packed several lifetimes of adventure into his sixty-five years in Alaska -- working as a fisherman, trapper, musher, miner, wart

"Alaska, "the most anti-statist of the American states," has for decades provided high-profile flashpoints for battles between environmentalists

Describes national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, the wild and scenic rivers system, and the Bureau of Land Management syste