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The Quiet World_ Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 - Douglas Brinkley [304]

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heterophylla), 56

Western Paradox, The (De Voto), 327–28, 332

western red cedar (Thuja plicata), 56

Weyerhaeuser Lumber, 50, 239, 242, 310, 389, 391

Whalen, Philip, 393, 396–97, 400–401, 414–15

whales, slaughter of, 401

Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (Ford), 28

Wherry, Kenneth S., 465

White, E. B., 133

White, Stewart Edward, 144

White, Thomas, 61

white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), 132

White Mountains, New Hampshire, 174

white sheep (Ovis dalli), 134

White Wilderness (film), 228, 354, 363, 445–47

Whittler, The (Kent), 194–95

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 468

Wickersham, James, 78–79, 91, 139–40, 266

Wild Bill (Murphy), 304

wilderness, use of term, 361

Wilderness: A Journey of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (Kent), 184, 194, 195, 198–99, 200, 407

Wilderness Act of 1964, 171, 262, 394, 440

Wilderness and the American Mind (Nash), 125, 249

Wilderness Hunter, The (Roosevelt), 128

Wilderness of Denali, The (Sheldon), 133, 134, 223

Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: A Hunter’s Experiences While Searching for Wapiti, Bears, and Caribou on the Larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska, The (Sheldon), 112, 134–35, 141

Wilderness of the Upper Yukon, The (Sheldon), 112, 128, 129

Wilderness Society, The, 305, 361, 375, 388

Arctic NWR and, 456–57, 460, 463, 470, 472

Arctic Range and, 373

Douglas and, 282–83, 302, 320

Marshall and, 231, 257–59, 261–62

Muries and, 282–84, 358

Wild Life Conservation Theory and Practice (Hornaday), 166

Wildlife in Alaska: An Ecological Reconnaissance (Darling and Leopold), 360, 364

Wildlife in America (Matthiessen), 224–25, 426, 436, 437, 438–39, 440–41, 452

wildlife protection, in general, 15, 52, 60, 171. See also specific species

Wildlife Refuges (Gabrielson), 344, 345

Wilkes, Charles, 54

Williams, Lydia Phillips, 451

Williams, Terry Tempest, 481

Williams, William Carlos, 400, 403

William Temple Hornaday Gold Medal, of Boy Scouts of America, 102

willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), 131–32

Wilson, Woodrow, 117–18, 120, 142, 143, 161–62, 167, 169

Winds of Change, The (Beach), 35

Winter Wilderness (film), 228, 356

Winter Wonderland (film), 459

Wirth, Conrad, 299

Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, and Love Community (WKFL), 417, 420

Wolcott, Charles, 108

wolves (Canis lupus)

A. Murie and, 285–89, 291–93, 295–99

Crislers and, 446–47, 458–59

Disney films and, 343, 350–54

shot from airplanes, 301, 368–69

Wolves and Men (Lopez), 301

Wolves in Relation to Stock, Game, and the National Forest Reserves (Bailey), 287

Wolves of Mount McKinley, The (A. Murie), 295, 351

Wolves of North America, The (Young and Goldman), 293, 351

Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs), 338–41

Wood, J. P., 197

Wood, Morton “Woody,” 340, 481

Wood, Virginia, 365, 385, 404, 477

Arctic NWR and, 481, 483–87, 490, 496

wood frog (Rana sylvatica), 24

Woods Hole Laboratory, 300

woolly mammoth, 14

Woozley, Edward, 463

Work, Hubert, 218

World Conservation Congress, 52, 74, 77, 99, 157

World in His Arms, The (Beach), 34–35

World War II, 318, 322, 342–43, 345, 428–29, 430, 481

Worster, Donald, 12

Wrangell Island, 14–15

Wrangell Mountains, 134, 488

Wreck of the Ancon, Loring Bay (Bierstadt), 185

Wyoming, 218


Yachting in the Arctic Seas (Lamont), 25

Yard, Robert Sterling, 257–59

yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), 62

Yellowstone National Park, 6

Yes Bay, 58

“Yosemite Glaciers” (Muir), 3

Yosemite National Park, 19, 168–69

Adams’s photographs of, 324–25

damming Hetch Hetchy and, 93–94, 166–67

Yosemite Valley, 3

Young (Dawes) Glacier, 12

Young, Egerton, 293

Young, S. Hall, 5–14, 170

Young, Stanley P., 293, 351

Yukon Delta Federal Bird Reservation, 63, 72, 96, 145, 442–43

Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, 159

Yukon River, 29, 103–4

Yupik people, 26–27, 33, 145, 181


Zahniser, Howard, 299, 394, 398

Arctic NWR and, 456–57, 462–63, 470, 477

Zen Buddhism (Suzuki), 393

Also by Douglas Brinkley

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi

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