Author: Dan D. Gapen
Publisher: Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications
ISBN: 9780932985002
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Wilderness North
Author: Dan D. Gapen
Publisher: Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications
ISBN: 9780932985002
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher: Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications
ISBN: 9780932985002
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Crown Jewel Wilderness
Author: Lauren Danner
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820476
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest’s crown jewels. Now, in the first full-length account, Lauren Danner chronicles its creation--just in time for the park’s fiftieth anniversary in 2018. The North Cascades range benefited from geographic isolation that shielded its mountains from extensive resource extraction and development. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction after World War II as economic affluence sparked national interest in wilderness preservation and growing concerns about the impact of harvesting timber to meet escalating postwar housing demands. As the environmental movement matured, a 1950s Glacier Peak study mobilized conservationists to seek establishment of a national park that prioritized wilderness. Concerned about the National Park Service’s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service’s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies to achieve the goal of permanent wilderness protection. Their grassroots activism became increasingly sophisticated, eventually leading to the compromise that resulted in the 1968 creation of Washington’s magnificent third national park.
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820476
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest’s crown jewels. Now, in the first full-length account, Lauren Danner chronicles its creation--just in time for the park’s fiftieth anniversary in 2018. The North Cascades range benefited from geographic isolation that shielded its mountains from extensive resource extraction and development. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction after World War II as economic affluence sparked national interest in wilderness preservation and growing concerns about the impact of harvesting timber to meet escalating postwar housing demands. As the environmental movement matured, a 1950s Glacier Peak study mobilized conservationists to seek establishment of a national park that prioritized wilderness. Concerned about the National Park Service’s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service’s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies to achieve the goal of permanent wilderness protection. Their grassroots activism became increasingly sophisticated, eventually leading to the compromise that resulted in the 1968 creation of Washington’s magnificent third national park.
North of the Sun
Author: Fred Hatfield
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806513171
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806513171
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
True North
Author: Elliott Merrick
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583943005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
An enthralling survival memoir “of a running fight against the forces of nature” and “the joys of wild life”—for lovers of nature and off-grid adventure (Kirkus Reviews) In the 1930s, a couple abandons the daily grind for a winters-long trek with native trappers through one of the most remote regions of Canada. While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was 24-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions. True North tells the captivating story of one of the high points of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife, Kay, made with trapper John Michelin in 1930. Covering 300 miles over a harsh winter, they experienced an unexplored realm of nature at its most intense and faced numerous challenges. Merrick accidentally shot himself in the thigh and almost cut off his toe. Freezing cold and hunger were constant. Nonetheless, the group found beauty and even magic in the stark landscape. The couple and the trappers bonded with each other and their environment through such surprisingly daunting tasks as fabricating sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and learning to wash underwear without it freezing. Merrick’s intimate style, rich with narrative detail, brings readers into a dramatic story of survival and shares the lesson the Merricks learned: that the greatest satisfaction in life can come from the simplest things.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583943005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
An enthralling survival memoir “of a running fight against the forces of nature” and “the joys of wild life”—for lovers of nature and off-grid adventure (Kirkus Reviews) In the 1930s, a couple abandons the daily grind for a winters-long trek with native trappers through one of the most remote regions of Canada. While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was 24-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions. True North tells the captivating story of one of the high points of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife, Kay, made with trapper John Michelin in 1930. Covering 300 miles over a harsh winter, they experienced an unexplored realm of nature at its most intense and faced numerous challenges. Merrick accidentally shot himself in the thigh and almost cut off his toe. Freezing cold and hunger were constant. Nonetheless, the group found beauty and even magic in the stark landscape. The couple and the trappers bonded with each other and their environment through such surprisingly daunting tasks as fabricating sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and learning to wash underwear without it freezing. Merrick’s intimate style, rich with narrative detail, brings readers into a dramatic story of survival and shares the lesson the Merricks learned: that the greatest satisfaction in life can come from the simplest things.
Up North
Author: Doug Bennet
Publisher: M & S
ISBN: 9780771011160
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An indispensable guide to learning about things that go bump in the night and are forever sucking your blood in the wilderness. Easily carried in a knapsack or coat pocket, "Up North" provides fascinating facts about the flora, fauna and other natural phenomena readers are likely to encounter outdoors in Ontario. Illustrations. color photos.
Publisher: M & S
ISBN: 9780771011160
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An indispensable guide to learning about things that go bump in the night and are forever sucking your blood in the wilderness. Easily carried in a knapsack or coat pocket, "Up North" provides fascinating facts about the flora, fauna and other natural phenomena readers are likely to encounter outdoors in Ontario. Illustrations. color photos.
Paddle North
Author: Layne Kennedy
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517782
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Explore the Quetico- Boundary Waters with seasoned paddlers-- one a writer, one a photographer--whose work reflects on the spirit of the place, conveying an open invitation to visit an ages-old wilderness.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517782
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Explore the Quetico- Boundary Waters with seasoned paddlers-- one a writer, one a photographer--whose work reflects on the spirit of the place, conveying an open invitation to visit an ages-old wilderness.
Wilderness at Dawn
Author: Ted Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671690885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This captivating combination of history, research, and storytelling presents the collective biography of the ordinary people who tamed this rugged continent and formed our nation. 11 maps; illustrations. Featured at the National American History Conference.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671690885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This captivating combination of history, research, and storytelling presents the collective biography of the ordinary people who tamed this rugged continent and formed our nation. 11 maps; illustrations. Featured at the National American History Conference.
Leave No Trace
Author: Jim Wark
Publisher: Universe Pub
ISBN: 9780789320773
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Features aerial photographs of the North American wilderness, and presents essays that chronicle the efforts made to expand and protect the areas throughout history.
Publisher: Universe Pub
ISBN: 9780789320773
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Features aerial photographs of the North American wilderness, and presents essays that chronicle the efforts made to expand and protect the areas throughout history.
North Woods
Author: Percy Knauth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wilderness Survival
Author: Berndt Berglund
Publisher: New York: C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Includes chapters on edible plants, knots, clothing, etc.
Publisher: New York: C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Includes chapters on edible plants, knots, clothing, etc.