Alaska's Inside Passage Wildlife Viewing Guide
Title | Alaska's Inside Passage Wildlife Viewing Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Riley Woodford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Wildlife watching |
ISBN |
Alaskan Wildlife Coloring Book
Title | Alaskan Wildlife Coloring Book PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Sovak |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2006-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0486452212 |
Wolves, grizzlies, beluga whales, and other awesome creatures roam their native habitats in this fun-to-color collection of 30 accurately rendered drawings.
Alaska's Wildlife
Title | Alaska's Wildlife PDF eBook |
Author | Carrie Compton |
Publisher | W.W. West Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780972792165 |
Travel from Glacier Bay to Prince William Sound: see Bald Eagles feeding along the Chikat River and grizzly bears at Brooks Falls patiently waiting for spawning red salmon.
Dominion of Bears
Title | Dominion of Bears PDF eBook |
Author | Sherry Simpson |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0700619356 |
Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side. As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between bears and humans is ancient and ongoing and, in Alaska, profoundly and often uncomfortably close. A huge number of North America’s bears live in Alaska: including at least 31,000 brown bears, 100,000 black bears, and 3,500 polar bears. And nearly every aspect of Alaskan society reflects their presence, from hunting to tourism marketing to wildlife management to urban planning. A long-time Alaskan, Simpson offers a series of compelling essays on Alaskan bears in both wild and urban spaces—because in Alaska, bears are found not only in their natural habitat but also in cities and towns. Combining field research, interviews, and a host of up-to-date scientific sources, her finely polished prose conveys a wealth of information and insight on ursine biology, behavior, feeding, mating, social structure, and much more. Simpson crisscrosses the Alaskan landscape in pursuit of bears as she muses, marvels, and often stands in sheer awe before these charismatic creatures. Firmly grounded in the expertise of wildlife biologists, hunters, and viewing guides, she shows bears as they actually are, not as we imagine them to be. She considers not only the occasionally aggressive behavior bears need to survive, but also the violence exacted upon them by trophy hunters, advocates of predator control, or suburbanites who view bears as land sharks that threaten the safety of their families. Shifting effortlessly between fascinating facts and poetic imagery, Simpson crafts an extended meditation on why we are so drawn to bears and why they continue to engage our imaginations, populate indigenous mythologies, and help define our essential visions of wilderness. As Simpson observes, “The slightest evidence that bears share your world—or that you share theirs—can alter not only your sense of the landscape, but your sense of yourself within that landscape.”
Alaska Wildlife Impressions
Title | Alaska Wildlife Impressions PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Farcountry Press |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781560372837 |
Photographer Steven Kazlowski brings us Alaska's wildlife in its many beautiful settings?migratory birds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Dall sheep clinging to cliffs in the Brooks Range, red foxes, moose, and musk oxen on the interior tundra, marine life along the fjords of the Kenai Peninsula, sea otters on the bleak Aleutian Islands. Experience life in the Last Frontier
Animal Stories
Title | Animal Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Sherwonit |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2014-09-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1941821308 |
These timeless, beautifully written essays share encounters and observations on a variety of Alaskan wildlife and include natural history information.
Wildlife in Alaska
Title | Wildlife in Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo Starker Leopold |
Publisher | New York : Ronald Press Company |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Nature |
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