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Arctic Brotherhood, 48–49, 49n, 61
Arctic Dance (Craighead and Kreps), 265
Arctic Dreams (Lopez), 229
Arctic loon (Gavia arctica), 62
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Arctic NWR), 231, 255, 366, 373, 378, 439, 443, 453–71, 479–99
described, 453–54, 454n, 479
established by public land order, 493–95, 493n
hunting issues, 455, 458–60, 466–67
name issues, 454n, 458, 463
oil exploration and mining issues, 456, 460–61, 467–68, 472–73, 472n, 484–85, 490
public opinion in Alaska and, 457–58, 462, 472, 474, 484, 487, 491
statehood issues and, 454, 457, 471–72, 473, 474–77, 486, 495
styles and tactics of defenders of, 454–71, 480–93
Arctic Prairies, The (Seton), 461
Arctic Range
attempts to prevent development of, 359–69
importance of photographs of, 363, 370–71
Matthiessen in, 439–40
Sheenjek expedition to, 373–76, 380–86
Arctic Village (Marshall), 244–45, 247–50, 254, 367
Arctic Wild (L. Crisler), 350–51, 353, 445–47, 448, 451
Arnold, Hap, 338
Arrhenius, Svante, 1
Asaiah, Brother, 417, 419–21, 425n
Ascent of Denali, The (Stuck), 133
Atlantic Monthly, 435
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), 156–57
atomic bomb testing. See Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Jones and, 433–34
Project Chariot and, 403–6, 424
Atwood, Mike, 476
Audubon, 459
Audubon, John James, 88, 113, 193
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 438
Audubon Plumage Law (1910), 156
Audubon Society, 41, 88, 227
Auk, 132
aurora borealis, 267
Austin, Mary Hunter, 450
Autobiography, An (Adams), 324, 328, 330
Autobiography, An (Roosevelt), 158n
Autobiography of a Curmudgeon (Ickes), 120
Avery Island, Louisiana, 157
Bade, William F., 178
Baden-Powell, Robert, 101
Bailey, Florence Merriam, 287
Bailey, Vernon, 287
bald eagle, 224–30, 292n
Bald Eagle Protection Act, 230
Baldwin, Roger, 227
Ball, Witt, 3
Ballinger, Richard
feud with Pinchot over development of Alaska, 75–80, 110, 314
after Pinchot’s firing, 82
Taft appoints as secretary of the interior, 74–75
Bambi: A Life in the Woods (film), 347–48, 356
Barefooters, 417–21, 424
Barnette, E. T., 265
Bartlett, E. L. “Bob,” 476, 477, 489, 490–91
Bartsch, Paul, 88
Basho, 135
Bass, Rick, 456
Bates, Claude. See Asaiah, Brother
Baxter State Park, 146
Beach, Rex, 34–35
Bear Glacier, Kent’s paintings of, 186–88
Beard, Daniel, 101–2, 146
bears, 123–24, 160–61, 210, 281–82
beat generation, in Alaska, 415–21. See also Ginsberg, Allen; Kerouac, Jack
Beebe, Frank, 391
Beebe, William, 204
Bella Bellas, 31
Bellows, George, 188
Benchley, Robert, 198
Benedict, Ruth, 250
Berg, Andrew, 129
Bergere, Estella, 214
Bering Sea, 14–15, 26–27, 30
Bering Strait Land Bridge National Preserve, 27, 33
“Berry Feast, A” (Snyder), 392, 402, 407
Bierstadt, Albert, 185–86
Big Burn, The (Eagan), 73
Big Sur (Kerouac), 424
bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), 164
“Billy Possums,” 100–101
Bird, Isabella, 450
birds, 28, 36, 132, 151
bird-banding movement, 88
Duck Stamp Act and, 317–18
Hornaday on loss of species, 149
refuges and reservations for, 52, 62–64, 158–59, 173, 214
T. Roosevelt and, 62–64, 87–88, 156–58
bison, 151
black bear (Ursus americanus), 161
black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), 197
black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), 88
Black Mountain, 12
black turnstones (Arenaria melanocephala), 63
Blatchley, Willis Stanley, 106–7
blue bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus), 161
Bob Marshall Wilderness, 262, 262n
Bogoslof Island, 159
Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open, A (Roosevelt), 165, 173
Book of the American Woodcock, The (Sheldon), 209
Boone and Crocket Club, 77, 102, 158, 459
brown bears and, 156
data collection on Alaska’s game animals, 176–77
Hornaday and, 95–96, 150
membership of, 210
Mount McKinley National Park and, 140, 142, 143
Sheldon and, 129, 132
T. Roosevelt and, 39, 41, 205
Borglum, Gutzon, 222
Boy Scouts of America, 101–3, 144
Brady, John G., 42–44, 48, 57
Branson, Jim, 439
Breaking New Ground (Pinchot), 84, 158
Brewer, William, 16
Brinton, Christian, Kent’s letter to, 196
bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis),