[PDF] Prince William Sound eBook

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska, 1989
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Text, numerous colour photographs and maps provide a portrait of all aspects of the past and present of this wilderness area located in southcentral Alaska near Anchorage.

Author : Debbie S. Miller
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781680511062

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2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Nature The 2.1 million acres (equivalent to Yellowstone National Park) of the wilderness study area are coming under increasing threat by resource development Essays of personal explorations of the region by an award-winning writer are accompanied by dramatic images from an award-winning photographer The wilderness study area is home to the largest concentration of tidewater glaciers in America and hosts a vast diversity of terrestrial and aquatic mammals, birds, and fish It's been said that "a picture is worth a thousand words," and nowhere is that more true than on the pages ofA Wild Promise: Prince William Sound. The images of photographer Hugh Rose show you what this region holds--and what will be lost without protection from future resource development. Alongside Hugh's images are eloquent essays covering the natural and cultural history, people, and fragility of this region by noted Alaskan writer Debbie Miller. Alaska's famed Prince William Sound includes more than 3,000 shore land miles of bays, coves, and deep fjords topped by the ice-capped peaks of the Chugach Mountains. More than 1 million tourists visit the region annually, and small family-owned fishing boats, ecotourism, oyster farms, and guide services provide sustainable livelihoods for year-round Alaskan residents. Many Americans first came to know of Prince William Sound through the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989--a catastrophe with lingering long-term effects, such the collapse of the once abundant herring population, a critical fish in the marine food chain. InA Wild Promise, readers travel alongside Hugh and Debbie as they hike and kayak from Columbia Glacier to College Fiord, exploring the Nellie Juan-College Fjord Wilderness Study Area, a region set aside for study in 1980, to be followed--it was hoped--by permanent protection from Congress. After almost four decades of being in limbo as a designated wilderness study area, the fate of this spectacular, wild place is now in our hands. Its protection is a gift we can offer generations to come--a promiseof wilderness, beauty, and natural diversity that we can, indeed, keep.

Author : Jeff Wheelwright
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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Animal populations rise and fall; variability and patchiness are the rule. The factors that cause biological change are numerous and overlapping and often can't be sorted out in spite of the best efforts of scientists. But an ecosystem such as Prince William Sound readily recovers from disturbances in part because the disturbances are so routine.

Author : John Keeble
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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Keeble, author of the novels Yellowfish and Broken ground, presents a detailed, almost novelistic account of the disaster, its implications and ramifications, and the fiasco of Exxon's response (cleanup and coverup), which may well have done more lasting ecological damage than the original offense. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : M. E. Isleib
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780912006390

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Report on status, abundance, habitat, and seasonal occurrence of 219 species of birds as observed on the North Gulf Coast of Alaska-Prince William Sound. An annotated list of birds is provided.