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New Proposal to Protect Alaskan Wilderness Most Sweeping in Decades
2015-01-25 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: No president in 35 years has made as sweeping a conservation proposal as President Barack Obama did today by urging Congress to transform the oil-laden coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into what would be the largest wilderness area in the nation's history. The president's move to designate 12.3 million acres of new wilderness would block decades of efforts to drill for oil on a 1.5-million-acre portion of the refuge. That coastal region is thought to contain up to 10.3-billion...
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Canada: Victory Yukon Wilderness Is "Game-Changer"
2014-12-07 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Environmentalists and indigenous people across northern Canada are celebrating a historic legal victory that protects one of the world's last major pristine river systems. In a December 2 ruling, Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale ruled that the Canadian territory's government did not have the authority to override a land-use plan to preserve the bulk of the 26,000-square-mile (67,000-square-kilometer) Peel Watershed region. A wildlife habitat of global importance, the northern Yukon wilderness...
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Worlds last remaining forest wilderness at risk
2014-09-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The world's last remaining forest wilderness is rapidly being lost - and much of this is taking place in Canada, not in Brazil or Indonesia where deforestation has so far made the headlines. A new satellite study reveals that since 2000 more than 104 million hectares of forests - an area three times the size of Germany - have been destroyed or degraded.Since 2000 more than 104 million hectares of forests - an area three times the size of Germany - have been destroyed or degraded "Every four...
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What the Wilderness Act has taught us
2014-09-02 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Ffty years ago Wednesday, Lyndon Johnson strolled out to the Rose Garden, pressed a fountain pen between the fingers of his hefty right hand and signed into law the highest level of protection ever afforded the American landscape. "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt," President Johnson said later, "we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning." On that day, America...
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09.27: First Wilderness: My Quest in the Territory of Alaska
2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar
First published in 1973, Sam Keith's One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey was based on the journals and photography of his dear friend, Dick Proenneke. In 2003, portions of the book were used in Alone in the Wilderness, a documentary which aired on public television stations. In 2013, Keith's daughter, Laurel Lies, discovered amidst her father's possessions a manuscript, originally written in 1974. First Wilderness (Alaska Northwest Books) includes Keith's journals, letters, and notebooks, woven into the manuscript to create a compelling, poignant memoir that offers descriptions of pre-statehood Alaska and its wildlife. Lies will be joined in conversation by editor Tricia Brown.
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