Book Reviews

Pioneering Conservation in Alaska

by Ken Horn
University Press of Colorado, 2006

$29.95, 540 pages

Heroes and villains, slaughter and salvation -- it's the story of Alaska's conservation movement, laid out by author Ken Horn in a compelling text that relies on deft juggling of facts and characters to describe the engagement of western civilization with the state's resource abundance. Conservationists followed in the wake of a ravishing army of gold seekers, animal harvesters, and land despoilers. Horn reveals how they pioneered a different ethos with respect to Alaska, leading to the creation of such institutions as Mount McKinley National Park and Tongass National Forest, and the evolution of seeing the wild as a resource in itself. --Terry Winckler

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