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1. Peggy Wayburn, “The Last True Wilderness,” in Mike Miller and Peggy Wayburn, Alaska: The Great Land (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1974), p. 117.
2. Mark Maslin, Global Warming (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 96.
3. Adeline Knapp, “Some Hermit Homes of California Writers,” Overland, Vol. 35, No. 205 (January 1900).
4. Michael P. Cohen, The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), p. 42.
5. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), p. 205. Also Tom Melham, John Muir’s Wild America (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1976), p. 9.
6. Bruce Molnia, Glaciers of Alaska (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 2001), pp. 5–7. Also see Ned Rozell, “Melting Ice,” Alaska Science Forum, Article No. 1731 (December 30, 2004).
7. John Muir, Travels in Alaska (Boston, MA, and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), p. 215.
8. Andromeda Romano-Lax, Chugach National Forest: Legacy of Land, Sea, and Sky (Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association, 2007). (In 2008, the Alaska Natural History Association changed its name to the Alaska Geographic Association.)
9. Susan Kollin, Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), p. 28.
10. Witt Ball, “The Stickeen River and Its Glaciers,” Scribner’s Monthly, Vol. 17 (1879), pp. 805–815.
11. John Muir, “Yosemite Glaciers,” New York Tribune, December 5, 1871.
12. Dyan Zaslowsky, Tom H. Watkins, and Wilderness Society, These American Lands: Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands (Washington, DC: Island, 1994), p. 287.
13. Kollin, Nature’s State, p. 32.
14. Linnie Marsh Wolfe (ed.), John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979), p. 245. (Reprint of the original, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1938.)
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