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Hidden Alaska: Bristol Bay and Beyond

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A stunning visual story of a place of wonder and mystique for each American, this book features what is legendary and beloved about Alaska, a land of magnificent wilderness and beauty, virtually untouched by human ambition. It also makes a speciality of the key focal point in the state today: endangered Bristol Bay, which faces potential mining of the world’s greatest deposits of copper and gold. Its pristine waters are the worlds’ biggest salmon spawning grounds. If the gold is mined, the ecosystem is destroyed —but the impoverished locals have work for the next half-century. After that, the salmon and the mines are gone. Melford, paired with noted environmental storyteller David Atcheson, addresses the quandary by bowling us over with the beauty and importance of the place for all time. Underwritten by the Renewable Resources Coalition, the book will be distributed among its more than 5,000 members.

From Hidden Alaska
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Clouds scrape by the snow-covered Iliamna Volcano, which last erupted before Europeans settled in the area. (p. 98) The wilderness of Chikuminuk Lake and Wood-Tikchik State Park displays an untouched nature that has mostly vanished from the lower 48 states. (p. 100) Corporate interests have proposed a massive mining operation to unearth the rich deposits of gold, copper, and molybdenum under the land in this region. (p. 150) “We love our fish,” says Ina Bouker, a Yupik and teacher from Dillingham who opposes the mine. “The salmon all the time run. But if their habitat is destroyed, they’re going to not come back.” (p. 144)
The eerily majestic northern lights, or aurora borealis, blaze above Twelvemile Summit on the Steese Highway. (p. 76) Commercial fishermen pull in a flow gill net at dusk on Bristol Bay. In an average year more than 40 million salmon commute through the bay to their spawning grounds. (p. 122) Although brown bears are typically solitary creatures, they congregate at places like Brooks Falls in the summertime to catch and eat spawning salmon. (p. 127) A male salmon rests on his long voyage back to the waters of his birth. These migrating salmon die shortly after breeding. (p. 129)


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