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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
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