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Snow Leopard, The (Matthiessen), 439, 443
Snow Queen, The (Kent), 194–95
snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), 134
snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), 23–24, 37
Snyder, Gary, 202, 414–15, 416, 423, 441, 455
background, 387–90
Buddhism and, 392–93, 395, 399
as Forest Service lookout, 390–92, 393–99
Ginsberg and, 399–400
literary influences on, 396, 397, 398
poetry of, 390, 392, 399, 402, 406–9
Social Security Act, 293
Soil Conservation Act (1935), 315
Soil Conservation Service, 254
Southgate, Patricia, 435, 436
Souvenir Album (Curtis), 46
spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri), 63
Spencer, Ted, 328
Spoilers, The (Beach), 34
sports hunting. See hunting issues
Sports Illustrated, 435, 436
Stassen, Harold, 465
statehood issues, 370, 404
Arctic NWR and, 454, 457, 471–72, 473, 474–77, 486, 495
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 201, 272
Stegner, Wallace, 499
Steller, Georg Wilhelm, 28–29, 33
Steller’s eider (Polysticta stelleri), 28, 63, 431
Steller’s greenling (Hexagrammos stelleri), 28
Steller’s jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), 28
Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), 28, 150
Steller’s sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), 28
Steller’s sea monkey, 28
Steller’s white raven, 28
Stenzel, Louise, 10
Stepovich, Mike, 476
Stevens, Christine, 452
Stevens, Ted, 472–73
Stickeen (Muir), 12
“Stickeen River and Its Glaciers, The” (Ball), 3
Stieglitz, Alfred, 325
Stimson, Henry L., 77, 318
Stone, Cathy, 491, 497
Stone, Christopher D., 305–6
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 311, 312
Stone sheep (Ovis dalli stonei), 128
Straus, Oscar S., 232
Strauss, Lewis, 403–4
Stuck, Hudson, 133
Suiter, John, 396
Summer Birds of the Adirondacks (Roosevelt), 40
Sumner, Lowell, 360, 361, 364, 367–69, 485
Arctic NWR and, 462, 463
Arctic Range and, 369–70, 385
Suzuki, D. T., 393, 396
Syracuse University, New York State College of Forestry at, 234
Taft, William Howard, 49n, 157
Billy Possums and, 100–101
criticized by T. Roosevelt and Hornaday, 151
election of 1912, 115–20
firing of Pinchot from Forest Service, 73–74, 80–82, 107–8
lack of interest in Peary’s trek to north pole, 69
lack of support for T. Roosevelt’s conservation policies, 72–81, 88–89, 91, 207
Pinchot’s opinion of, 96, 103
support of conservation movement, 108, 115, 174
T. Roosevelt’s opinion of administration of, 98
Tanana Valley Sportsmen’s Association, 175, 296–97
Arctic NWR and, 455–56, 458, 459, 466, 468, 470, 487
Taylor (Brady) glacier, 11
Taylor Grazing Act (1934), 315
Teapot Dome scandal, 218
Teller, Edward, 403–5
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled (Stuck), 133
Thayer, Abbot H., 111
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (Miller), 80
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, 205
Thomas, Ashton, 264, 269, 271, 274
Thomson, John, 488
Thoreau, Henry David, 146, 303, 321, 397
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (Roosevelt), 173
tidewater glaciers, 19
Tillion, Clem, 419
timber companies. See forest preservation; Weyerhaeuser Lumber
Times Herald, 321
Tlingit, 26, 33, 36, 81, 138
missionary work with, 43
Muir made honorary chief by, 12
as Muir’s guides, 6–7, 10–11, 12
totem poles of, 7
T. Roosevelt and land rights of, 53
Young’s missionary work with, 5, 7–8, 10
Tongass National Forest
Alaskans’ opinion of, 60, 111
protection as cause in election of 1910, 107
size of, 60
T. Roosevelt and creation of, 58–62
threatened by exploitation, 206
threatened during Taft administration, 72, 75–76, 79, 81, 91–92, 104
Wilson and, 162
World War II and, 294, 322
Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest (Durbin), 59
Top of the Continent (Laurence), 186
totem poles, 7, 30, 54, 315–16
tourism, 18, 19–20, 47, 143–44, 484–485, 488
Town and the City, The (Kerouac), 400
Trail of the Gold Seekers, The (Garland), 90
Trailside (Adams), 334
Travels in Alaska (Muir), 12, 53, 169–70, 264
Tree Mountain, 12
trees, legal standing and, 302, 305–7
tree sparrow (Spizella arborea), 132
Tree Where Man Was Born, The (Matthiessen), 443
Tremblay, Ray, 439
True Life Adventure: The Olympic Elk (Crisler), 446
Truman, Harry S., 319–20, 322
trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator), 132–33
Trumpeter Swan Society, 132
Trumpet of the Swan, The (White), 133
Tsimshian people, 26, 33
Tudor, Ralph, 383
Tuxedni Federal Bird Reservation, 63–64, 158–59
Two in the Far North (Murie), 131, 254, 277, 360, 382, 384
Udall, Stewart, 492, 494, 497, 499
Umnak Island, 158
Unalakleet experimental laboratory, 209
Unalaska Island, 158
Union Oil spill, 304–5
United States Exploring Expedition, 54
United States v. Causby, 482
U.S. Biological Survey, 39, 40, 51, 63, 89, 98, 122, 156, 158, 160, 229, 276–77, 287
O. Murie and, 273–79
Sheldon and, 122–23, 127–37
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, 98, 151, 156, 224
U.S. Bureau of Mines, 98
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 222
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 158, 290, 292
Arctic NWR and, 463, 467
Arctic Range and, 367–68
Duck Stamp Act and, 318
foxes and, 198
Jones and, 426, 430–34
U.S. Forest Service
brushfires and, 138
Depression-era cutbacks, 243
Leopold joins, 213–14
Snyder as lookout with, 390–92, 393–99
T. Roosevelt and, 56–62
Taft and, 73–74, 82–83, 89, 107–8
U.S. Forest Service Bulletin, 238, 239
U.S. Geological Survey, 239, 247
U.S. Signal Corps, 104
U.S. Treasury Department, Document No. 429, 15
Valdez, Alaska, 79, 104–5, 110
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 115, 488–89
Vancouver, George, 8–9
Vandegraft, Douglas L., 406
“Vanishing American Hobo, The” (Kerouac), 422
Van Name, Willard, 226–27
Venta, Krishna, 417–19, 420
Vermont, 126, 155–56, 199, 256
Viereck, Les, 488
Viking Press colophon, 200
Visions of Denali (Laurence), 186
volcanoes, 145
Vonnegut, Kurt, 303
Voyaging (Kent), 199
Vreeland, Frederick K., 143–48, 178, 179–83, 316–17
Vreeland Glacier, 147
Wainwrigh
t, John, 410
Walcott, Frederic, 281–82
Walden (Thoreau), 321, 397
Walker, Ernest, 213–14
Walker, Tom, 122
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 113
Wallace, Henry C., 80, 218
Wall Street Journal, 47–48
walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), 29–30, 46, 154–55
Walsh, Thomas, 166
Walt Disney Productions. See Disney, Walt
Walts, Vernon, 246
wapiti, 122
War Against the Seals, The (Busch), 97–98
Washington, University of, 48
Washington Post, 321
Wayburn, Edgar, 59
Webster, Daniel, 437
Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, frontier defined in, 140
Weeks Law, 174
Weeks-McLean Bill, 151
Weismann, August, 113
Welch, Joseph, 377
western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), 56
Western Paradox, The (De Voto), 327–28, 332
western red cedar (Thuja plicata), 56
Weyerhaeuser Lumber, 50, 239, 242, 310, 389, 391
Whalen, Philip, 393, 396–97, 400–401, 414–15
whales, slaughter of, 401
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (Ford), 28
Wherry, Kenneth S., 465
White, E. B., 133
White, Stewart Edward, 144
White, Thomas, 61
white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), 132
White Mountains, New Hampshire, 174
white sheep (Ovis dalli), 134
White Wilderness (film), 228, 354, 363, 445–47
Whittler, The (Kent), 194–95
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 468
Wickersham, James, 78–79, 91, 139–40, 266
Wild Bill (Murphy), 304
wilderness, use of term, 361
Wilderness: A Journey of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (Kent), 184, 194, 195, 198–99, 200, 407
Wilderness Act of 1964, 171, 262, 394, 440
Wilderness and the American Mind (Nash), 125, 249
Wilderness Hunter, The (Roosevelt), 128
Wilderness of Denali, The (Sheldon), 133, 134, 223
Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: A Hunter’s Experiences While Searching for Wapiti, Bears, and Caribou on the Larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska, The (Sheldon), 112, 134–35, 141
Wilderness of the Upper Yukon, The (Sheldon), 112, 128, 129
Wilderness Society, The, 305, 361, 375, 388
Arctic NWR and, 456–57, 460, 463, 470, 472
Arctic Range and, 373
Douglas and, 282–83, 302, 320
Marshall and, 231, 257–59, 261–62
Muries and, 282–84, 358
Wild Life Conservation Theory and Practice (Hornaday), 166
Wildlife in Alaska: An Ecological Reconnaissance (Darling and Leopold), 360, 364
Wildlife in America (Matthiessen), 224–25, 426, 436, 437, 438–39, 440–41, 452
wildlife protection, in general, 15, 52, 60, 171. See also specific species
Wildlife Refuges (Gabrielson), 344, 345
Wilkes, Charles, 54
Williams, Lydia Phillips, 451
Williams, Terry Tempest, 481
Williams, William Carlos, 400, 403
William Temple Hornaday Gold Medal, of Boy Scouts of America, 102
willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), 131–32
Wilson, Woodrow, 117–18, 120, 142, 143, 161–62, 167, 169
Winds of Change, The (Beach), 35
Winter Wilderness (film), 228, 356
Winter Wonderland (film), 459
Wirth, Conrad, 299
Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, and Love Community (WKFL), 417, 420
Wolcott, Charles, 108
wolves (Canis lupus)
A. Murie and, 285–89, 291–93, 295–99
Crislers and, 446–47, 458–59
Disney films and, 343, 350–54
shot from airplanes, 301, 368–69
Wolves and Men (Lopez), 301
Wolves in Relation to Stock, Game, and the National Forest Reserves (Bailey), 287
Wolves of Mount McKinley, The (A. Murie), 295, 351
Wolves of North America, The (Young and Goldman), 293, 351
Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs), 338–41
Wood, J. P., 197
Wood, Morton “Woody,” 340, 481
Wood, Virginia, 365, 385, 404, 477
Arctic NWR and, 481, 483–87, 490, 496
wood frog (Rana sylvatica), 24
Woods Hole Laboratory, 300
woolly mammoth, 14
Woozley, Edward, 463
Work, Hubert, 218
World Conservation Congress, 52, 74, 77, 99, 157
World in His Arms, The (Beach), 34–35
World War II, 318, 322, 342–43, 345, 428–29, 430, 481
Worster, Donald, 12
Wrangell Island, 14–15
Wrangell Mountains, 134, 488
Wreck of the Ancon, Loring Bay (Bierstadt), 185
Wyoming, 218
Yachting in the Arctic Seas (Lamont), 25
Yard, Robert Sterling, 257–59
yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), 62
Yellowstone National Park, 6
Yes Bay, 58
“Yosemite Glaciers” (Muir), 3
Yosemite National Park, 19, 168–69
Adams’s photographs of, 324–25
damming Hetch Hetchy and, 93–94, 166–67
Yosemite Valley, 3
Young (Dawes) Glacier, 12
Young, Egerton, 293
Young, S. Hall, 5–14, 170
Young, Stanley P., 293, 351
Yukon Delta Federal Bird Reservation, 63, 72, 96, 145, 442–43
Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, 159
Yukon River, 29, 103–4
Yupik people, 26–27, 33, 145, 181
Zahniser, Howard, 299, 394, 398
Arctic NWR and, 456–57, 462–63, 470, 477
Zen Buddhism (Suzuki), 393
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1. Peggy Wayburn, “The Last True Wilderness,” in Mike Miller and Peggy Wayburn, Alaska: The Great Land (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1974), p. 117.
2. Mark Maslin, Global Warming (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 96.
3. Adeline Knapp, “Some Hermit Homes of California Writers,” Overland, Vol. 35, No. 205 (January 1900).
4. Michael P. Cohen, The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), p. 42.
5. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), p. 205. Also Tom Melham, John Muir’s Wild America (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1976), p. 9.
6. Bruce Molnia, Glaciers of Alaska (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 2001), pp. 5–7. Also see Ned Rozell, “Melting Ice,” Alaska Science Forum, Article No. 1731 (December 30, 2004).
7. John Muir, Travels in Alaska (Boston, MA, and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), p. 215.
8. Andromeda Romano-Lax, Chugach National Forest: Legacy of Land, Sea, and Sky (Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association, 2007). (In 2008, the Alaska Natural History Association changed its name to the Alaska Geographic Association.)
9. Susan Kollin, Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), p. 28.
10. Witt Ball, “The Stickeen River and Its Glaciers,” Scribner’s Monthly, Vol. 17 (1879), pp. 805–815.
11. John Muir, “Yosemite Glaciers,” New York Tribune, December 5, 1871.