Alaska mammals.
New York: Alaska Geographic, Volume 8, No. 2, 1981. Octavo, oblong format, paperback. colour photographs. More
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Billion-dollar fish: the untold story of Alaska pollock.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Alaska pollock is everywhere. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America-the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in..... More
Alaska bird trails: adventures of an expedition By dog sled to the delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay.
New York: Bird Research foundation, 1943. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Oil and wilderness in Alaska: natural resources, environmental protection, and national policy dynamics.
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, maps. Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book examines three significant national policy reform efforts that came out of these conflicts: the development of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the..... More
An annotated bibliography of literature on Alaskan water birds.
New York: Fisheries and Wild Life Department, 1981. Quarto, paperback, cover lightly sunned. More
The birds of the Beaufort Sea.
Sydney: BP Exploration (Alaska) Ltd., [1989. second edition). Octavo, coloured map, a fine copy. More
Recent mammals of Alaska.
Anchorage: University of Alaska, Press, 2009. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. From the Polar bear and the Gray wolf to the Walrus and the River otter, there are 116 species of mammals in Alaska. This book serves as a comprehensive guide the mammals that occur or..... More
Traveller's wildlife guide: Alaska.
New York: Interlink Publishing, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, softcover. Alaska has both vast wilderness tracts and a modern transportation system, making ecotravelling in the state easy as well as exciting. From the broad expanses of tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the rich seabird colonies of..... More
Big game in Alaska: a history of wildlife and people.
Anchorage: University of Alaska, (2008. reprint). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Sherwood charts the history of the environmental and political conflict in Alaska, examining the creation of the Alaska Game Commission in the early 1930s. More
The changing Arctic landscape.
Anchorage: University of Alaska Press, 2010. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Though it's generally understood that any landscape changes over time - particularly as the number of people it supports increases - these changes occur over such a span of time that they go more or less unnoticed. With this..... More
Bear wrangler: memoirs of an Alaska pioneer biologist.
Anchorage: University of Alaska, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. The author recounts both the harrowing adventures and the moving experiences that have marked his career as a biologist. Beginning in 1951, Troyer embarked on a 31 year career at Kodiak Island Brown bear preserve. Also available in hardcover..... More
The Aleutian Islands: living on the edge.
Anchorage: University of Alaska, 2008. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A striking collection of photographs that powerfully depict the islands' tumultuous weather and stunning landscape that have drawn so many to their shores. More
Alaska days with John Muir.
New York: Westwinds Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, photographs, map. Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary. This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with..... More
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