Focuses on fish and wildlife protection issues in the course of planning, establishing, and conducting monitoring activities. Also explores the rationale behind the decision making process and offers recommendations for improved environmental management in future cases.

Focuses on fish and wildlife protection issues in the course of planning, establishing, and conducting monitoring activities. Also explores the rationale behind the decision making process and offers recommendations for improved environmental management in future cases.

Focuses on fish and wildlife protection issues in the course of planning, establishing, and conducting monitoring activities. Also explores the rationale behind the decision making process and offers recommendations for improved environmental management in future cases.

In 1977 oil began to flow south from the Arctic through the controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). This study considers the TAPS proposal and controversy as an extension (even a culmination) of established processes, policies, and attitudes within Alaska history, American environmental history, and the history of conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR