Old Alaska and arctic natural history books.

[Alaska. Dept. of Fish and Game]. Alaska's Fisheries Atlas. Volume 1. [Compiled by Robert F. McLean and Kevin J. Delaney]. State of Alaska, Dept. of Fish and Game, 1978. Volume 1 ONLY of a 2 volume set. Contents of volume 1: Fish Species Accounts, Area Accounts, and Fish Distribution Maps, for, King Salmon; Sockeye Salmon; Coho Salmon; Pink Salmon; Chum Salmon; Pacific Herring; Red King Crab; Blue King Crab; Brown King Crab; Tanner Crab; Dungeness Crab; Northern Pink Shrimp; Humpy Shrimp; Coonstripe Shrimp; Spot Shrimp; Sidestripe Shrimp; Pacific Scallop; Razor Clams. Illustrations, maps. Oblong, 17 1/2” X 23 1/4”. (Keywords: Fishes--Alaska. Fishes--Alaska--Geographical distribution--Maps). SOLD

[Alaska. Dept. of Fish and Game]. Alaska's Fisheries Atlas. Volume 2. [Compiled by Robert F. McLean and Kevin J. Delaney]. State of Alaska, Dept. of Fish and Game, 1978. Volume 2 ONLY of a 2 volume set. Contents of volume 2: Fish Species Accounts, Area Accounts, and Fish Distribution Maps, for, Rainbow Trout; Steelhead Trout; Cutthroat Trout; Arctic Char; Dolly Varden; Lake Trout; Eastern Brook Trout; Arctic Grayling; Sheefish; Round Whitefish; Humpback Whitefish; Broad Whitefish; Arctic Cisco; Bering Cisco; Least Cisco; Northern Pike; Burbot. Illustrations, maps. Oblong, 12 1/2” X 18 1/4”. (Keywords: Fishes--Alaska. Fishes--Alaska--Geographical distribution--Maps.) Very good condition. $250. plus $15.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: top of natural history bookcase] Inventory #1349. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Alaska. Dept. of Fish and Game. Alaska's Wildlife and Habitat. Volume 1. 1973. Locates Alaska's wildlife resources on maps, identifies habitats and characteristics of species. Types of animals covered are Big Game, Marine Mammals, Waterfowl, and Seabirds. SOLD

Alaska. Dept. of Fish and Game. Alaska's Wildlife and Habitat. Volume 2. 1978. Locates Alaska's wildlife resources on maps, identifies habitats and characteristics of species. Species included are FURBEARERS: Arctic Fox, Arctic Ground Squirrel, Beaver, Coyote, Hoary Marmot, River Otter, Least Weasel, Lynx, Marten, Mink, Muskrat, Northern Flying Squirrel, Raccoon, Red Fox, Red Squirrel, Short-tailed Weasel. SMALL ANIMALS & BIRDS: Blue Grouse, European Rabbit, Porcupine, Rock Ptarmigan, Ruffed Grouse, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Snowshoe Hare, Spruce Grouse, Tundra Hare, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Willow Ptarmigan. RAPTORS: Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Gyrfalcon, Osprey, Peregrine Falcon, Rough-legged Hawk, Snowy Owl. SEABIRDS: Cassin’s Auklet, Crested Auklet, Least Auklet, Parakeet Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Whiskered Auklet, Pelagic Cormorant, Double-Crested Cormorant, Red-Faced Cormorant, Pacific Fulmar, Black Guillemot, Pigeon Guillemot, Glaucous Gull, Glaucous-Winged Gull, Herring Gull, Sabine’s Gull, Mew Gull, Black-Legged Kittiwake, Red-Legged Kittiwake, Common Murre, Thick-Billed Murre, Ancient Murrelet, Kittlitz’s Murrelet, Marbled Murrelet, Black Oystercatcher, Horned Puffin, Tufted Puffin, Fork-Tailed Storm Petrel, Leach’s Storm Petrel, Aleutian Tern, Arctic Tern. Weighs 10 pounds. Oversized oblong 12 1/2 X 18 inches. Condition: like new. $295. plus $15.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: top of natural history bookcase] Inventory #1350. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

[Alaska. Dept. of Fish and Game]. High Stakes on the Kenai River. [VHS video tape]. produced by Alaska, Department of Fish and Game. circa 1994. 30 minutes running time. (Keywords: Habitat, Ecology, King Salmon). VG. $29.95 plus $3.00 media mail postage. (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase]. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. Salmon 2000. Juneau, AK: 1991. 122pp. Chapters are: Executive summary; resource analysis; domestic market; foreign market analysis; quality survey. bibliography. softcover. good-very good. $25 plus $3.00 media mail postage. (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory #1344 . To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Anderson, James Hugh. A geobotanical study in the Atlin region in northwestern British Columbia and south-central Yukon Territory. Ph.D. thesis, Michigan State University, 1970. 380 pages + illustrations. [keywords: Botany--British Columbia--Yukon Territory--Atlin Region]. Softcover, University Microfilms. Foxing to fore edge, otherwise VG. $22.50 plus $3.00 media mail postage. (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase]. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Andriyashev, A. P. Fishes of the northern seas of the U.S.S.R. (Ryby severnykh morei SSSR). 1964. Translated from the Russian edition of 1954. Jerusalem, Israel Program for Scientific Translations & U.S. Dept. of Commerce. 617 pp. illus. Keywords: Marine fishes Russia Soviet Union. Softcover. Some page corners wee bumped, otherwise VG. $175 plus $6.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory #1230 . To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Barber, Kim R. Use of Clearcut Habitats by Black Bears in the Pacific Northwest.1983. M.S. thesis. Utah State University, Logan. 169 pp. PHOTOCOPY. (168 pages are here. Last page seems not to have been photocopied.). Bound with a clear plastic cover, white plastic spine, and cardboard back board. Nicely labled on spine. Small "discarded" stamp on cover page. INV#1206. $25.00 plus $4.00 postage & packing for this book, $1 for each additional book. For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Barr, Lou & Nancy. Under Alaskan Seas: The Shallow Water Marine Invertebrates. 1983. Alaska Northwest Publishing. Softbound. 208 pages. Cover corner crease, otherwise like new. $45 plus $3.00 media mail postage. (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory #1353 . To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Baxter, Dow Vawter, Benjamin Labaree & Willard Hildebrand. On and Off Alaskan Trails. 1937. Drawings by Carleton Angell. 184 pages, photographs. Map on end papers/paste-downs. "This travel log was written while the authors were studying Alaskan forests & forest diseases." Inscribed by the author "Best wishes Dr. Bl----, Along 'The Trail' Dow V. Baxter". Hardcover, no dust jacket. Sun-fading (not severe) to top of cover and spine, otherwise near fine. $75 plus $4.00 media mail postage. (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory #8765. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Bee, James W. & E. Raymond Hall. Mammals of Northern Alaska. Univ. of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Miscellaneous Publication # 8. 1956. 309pp. One color plate of small mammals. A polar bear on cover. Softbound. Very good. Some page corners slightly creased (but not folded over). Scarce book. $85 plus $6.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory # 1216. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Boltovskoy, Esteban. Planktological Dictionary in Five Languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Russian. Publisher: Hidrografía Naval, Argentina. Hardcover. 1963. 107pp. one of 2000 copies. 4to. Previous owner's name inside. Corners bumped, otherwise good. $95 plus $5.00 postage & packing for this book. INV#1209. Indispensable for plankton research in Alaska and Russian waters. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Chamberlin, Ralph V., & Wilton Ivie. The spiders of Alaska. Salt Lake City [1947]. 103 p. illus. 8vo [26 cm.] softcover. Utah. University. Biological series, v. 10, no. 3) Bulletin of the University of Utah, v. 37, no. 10. Very good+. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF ALASKA NATURAL HISTORY. It took me 30 years to find a second one! Not found at the Alaska State Library, nor at University of Alaska-Anchorage, nor at Anchorage Municipal Library. SOLD

Cooper, Dr. Robert H. Natural Science Field Study - State of Alaska. 1967, Ball State University. Bound report book. This is pretty much a log of the 30 day field trip that 25 Ball State students had in Alaska during 1967. Includes an interesting description of a July 10 seal kill. $35 plus $5.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory #1351 . To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881 Contributors include John Muir, Edward W. Nelson, & Irving O. Rosse. Places visited include: Saint Michael, Bering Sea, Plover Bay, Bering Strait, Saint Lawrence Island, King Island, Kotsebue Sound, Cape Thompson, Icy Cape, Herald Island, Wrangel Island, and others. Overall very good condition. $295 plus $5.00 postage & packing & insurance (international orders extra) for this book. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Elliott, Henry Wood, et al. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska.... 1898. Washington, Govt. Print. Office. United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division. Volume 3 only. (55th Cong., 1st sess. House. Doc. no. 92, pt. 3) Contents of volume 3: Reports by H. W. Elliott and Lieut. W. Maynard, U.S.N., on the fur-seal fisheries, etc., of the Pribilof Islands, and by Rev. S. Jackson on "Reindeer in Alaska" and "Education in Alaska," with comments on Elliott's and Maynard's reports by D. S. Jordan. [keywords: Bering Sea controversy. Sealing. Fisheries--Alaska. Alaska--Economic conditions. History of Education in Alaska]. Many folding maps in color. Includes "The Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into the District of Alaska for 1895" (reindeer report for 1895 with all of its historical photographs). Photos with the reindeer report include Baptist mission pupils, Wood Island (Kodiak); Coe, Rev. and Mrs. C. P., and Miss L. Goodchild; East Cape Village, Siberia; Gambell, Mr. and Mrs. V. C.; Hanna, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas; Juneau public school; Lapps, Teller Reindeer Station; Lopp, W. T., in winter costums; Model cottages, Sitka, Alaska; W. H. Myer (brig), wrecked; Native Thlinget (Tlingit) family, Juneau; Presbyterian mission pupils, Juneau; A corner of the Sitka Indnstrial School; Reindeer: Hobbling; Reindeer: Lassoing; Reindeer: Loading on shipboard; Reindeer: Milking; Reindeer: Skinning; Reindeer: Traveling. Roman Catholic mission, Koserefski. Roman Catholic mission pupils, Koserefski; Siberians, reindeer men, Peter and Kimok; Siberians, reindeer men, St. Lawrence Bay; Thlinget (Tlingit) house, interior carving; Vice-president and Sitka school children. Interesting volume. Library discard bound in buckram. Good condition. $125. plus $5.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory # 7777. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

The Fishes of Alaska by Barton W. Evermann & E. L. Goldsborough With 20 very fine color stone lithographs by Albertus. H. Baldwin. Original 1906 edition. One of the great Alaska color plate books. Seven of the 20 plates are shown here. For price please email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

[fisheries, 4 volumes]. Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year ... with appendixes. Bureau of Fisheries. 4 volumes: reports for the fiscal years 1928 (part 1), 1931, 1932, 1933. The 1928 volume includes pages 61-171 "Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries in 1927", by Ward T. Bower. Illustrations include "Alaska Fisheries Patrol Vessel Teal", "Native Type Fish Wheel on the Copper River, Alaska", "Gill-net Salmon Fishing Boat (under sail), Western Alaska", "Salmon Gil-net Boats Leaving for the Fishing Grounds, Bristol Bay, Alaska", "Road Construction Work, Pribilof Islands, Alaska", "Salmon Counting Weir, English Bay, Cook Inlet, Alaska". The 1931 volume includes pages 1-108 "Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries in 1930", by Ward T. Bower. Illustrations include "Bureau of Fisheries Vessel Penguin, tender for the Pribilof Islands", "Salmon Counting Weir, Situk River, Alaska". The 1932 volume includes pages 1-96 "Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries in 1931", by Ward T. Bower. The 1933 volume includes pages 1-78 "Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries in 1932", by Ward T. Bower. These reports are chock full of facts and figures. A huge number of tables include such info as "Average annual price per case of 48 1-pound cans of salmon, 1917-1927"; or "Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska Halibut Industry, 1927." An unbelievable amount of interesting information on this period of Alaska's industries and economy. (Title history note: Merged with: United States. Bureau of Biological Survey. Report of the chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey (1929), to form: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Annual report of the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to the Secretary of the Interior). 4 volume set in red cloth covers. Overall G-VG. $250. plus $6.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

[fur seal] (various authorhttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/54597877/AHBWP/guildsmaller.jpgs). Seal islands of Alaska. Letter from the secretary of commerce and labor, transmitting, in response to House resolution no. 73, information relating to the seal islands of Alaska. Washington [Govt. Print. Off.] 1911. A massive 1232 pages. (62d Cong., 1st sess. House. Doc. 93). "Copies of all letters, reports, and documents received from agents of the department in charge of the seal islands of Alaska, together with copies of all instructions given to such agents ... since January 1, 1904, to date." Added author: Nagel, Charles. A huge amount of information, statistics, and correspondence on the history of the fur seal harvest, including sealing in the first decade of the 20th century, on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. The letters from the agents stationed in the Pribilofs are particularly interesting to read. Japanese sealers, ship names, international politics, Native life, living conditions on the Pribilofs, etc, it's all here. Good, in soiled boards. $95. plus $4.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] INV#11111. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Gabrielson, Ira Noel, & Frederick Charles Lincoln. The birds of Alaska. 1959. Full color illustrations by Olaus J. Murie and Edwin R. Kalmbach. Topography of a bird by Bob Hines. Gazetteer by Myra A. Putnam. Published Harrisburg, Pa., by the Stackpole Co. 922 pages. A Wildlife Management Institute publication. [Keywords: Gabrielson & Lincoln; Alaska Birds; Ornithology History; Alaska Bird Life; Habits of Alaska Birds]. Highly recommended. I read it cover to cover back in the 1980's when I spent a summer on Forrester Island photographing birds. The book is packed with interesting anecdotes such as their account of finding a dipper (water ouzel) in full song, in the dead of an arctic winter, in a warm springs pool far into the north of Alaska. The book helped me locate a yellow wagtail nest near Old Chevak. Gabrielson & Lincoln's work is a masterpiece. PRICES: VG in dust jacket, earlier green binding, $200. Or VG without dust jacket, green binding, $150. Later brown binding in dust jacket $150. Later brown binding without dust jacket $125. (Xlibrary price deduct $50). I have most of these conditions/states in stock. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Gabrielson, Paul W. Keys to the benthic marine algae and seagrasses of British Columbia, southeast Alaska, Washington and Oregon. by P.W. Gabrielson, R.F. Scagel and T.B. Widdowson.
May 1990, revised edition. Vancouver, Dept. of Botany, University of British Columbia. (Phycological contribution No. 4, ISSN088865-464-2). Keywords: Marine algae, Pacific Coast, Benthos. Softcover. Worn at the corners; small cover crease. $28 plus $4.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory # 1216. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

	Ben Guild The Alaska Psychoactive Mushroom Handbook: A Field Guide to Alaska's Hallucinogenic and Psychedelic Species. 1979. Published by Alaska Nature Press, Eagle River, Alaska. 114pp. Softcover. Rare. In near new condition. SOLD (but I may have another, ask)

Handel, Colleen M. An Annotated Bibliography of Literature on Alaska Water Birds. 1981. Washington, D.C. .Coastal Ecosystems Project, Office of Biological Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of Interior. 515 pages, 1 map. Softcover. [keywords: Water birds--Alaska--Bibliography; Waterfowl--Alaska--Bibliography; Anatidae--Alaska--Bibliography; Birds--Alaska--Bibliography. Cover stamped COPY at the top , otherwise near fine. $28 plus $4.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory # 5555. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Irénée-Marie, Frère, and Douglas K. Hilliard. Desmids from Southcentral Alaska. March 1963. With 25 figures. Hydrobiologia. Volume 21, Numbers 1-2 ( Pages: 90 - 124). Uitgeverij Dr W. Junk, Den Haag, 1962. Separatum. Very good condition. Stamped "459" at top. VG. $10 plus $3.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase]. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Kessel, Brina. Birds of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska: their Biogeography, Seasonality, and Natural History. University of Alaska Press, 1989. 330 pages. Hardcover in nice dust jacket. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Near fine condition. $19.95 plus $3.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Klein, David R., and White, Robert G. Parameters of caribou population ecology in Alaska : proceedings of a symposium and workshop. November 17-19, 1977, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. 1978. 49 pages. (Biological papers of the University of Alaska. Special report ; no. 3). Bibliography: p. 14-15. [keywords: Caribou--Ecology--Congresses; Mammal populations--Alaska--Congresses; Mammals--Ecology--Congresses. Softcover. Name on front cover at the top , otherwise VG. $10 plus $3.00 media mail postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase]. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Martin, Fredericka. Sea Bears: The Story of the Fur Seal. 1960. Chilton, 1960. Library discard. Reading copy. Dust jacket worn at edges with small tear. $7 plus $3.00 media mail postage (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] Inventory # 1343. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Myers, Deke and Bill. Back Trails by Deke and Bill. published by H. M. Myers, Lapeer, Michigan, copyright 1933, 269 numbered pages. Signed by the author: "To A. T. Brown, Jr., With Best Regards, Bill Myers". Cover reads "Being the Tale of Many a Trek a-foot, a-mush and a-saddle, as told by Harry M. Myers and William A. Myers, Father and Son, in copy to the city editor; in letters home, and in the diary of a National Park Ranger, July, 1929 to September, 1932". Back Trails is a collection of articles written that were published in the The Detroit News by Harry Myers and the articles written by Bill Myers that were about his stint as a Ranger in Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska (now named Denali National Park). Important early Denali Park book, and very rare. Only 500 copies were printed. Hardbcover, very good, dust jacket faded on the spine and has light wear along the top, plus the back of the dustcover has been stuck to something and it shows. For price and availability email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

For sale: rare early Denali park history: Back
Trails by Deke & Bill

Orlov, Yu. A.(Chief Ed.) & D. V. Obruchev (Vol. Ed.) Fundamentals of Paleontology, vol. XI: Agnatha, Pisces. Translated from Russian. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jeruselum, 1967. 825 pages, illustrations. Softbound, library discard with usual markings, otherwise good. [shelf locator: Nat. Hist. Bookcase] $75.00 & $5.50 shipping/ins. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Ricker, William Edwin. Handbook of computations for biological statistics of fish populations. Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Bulletin no. 119. Ottawa, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1958. 300 pages. Includes bibliography. Very scarce title. Hardcover, good condition. $150.00 plus $5.00 media mail postage. (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase] . To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Scagel, Robert F. MARINE ALGAE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON. Part 1: CHLOROPHYCEAE (Green Algae). 1966. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CANADA BULLETIN No. 207. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. 257 pp. Softcover. Name on front cover. Good. [shelf locator: Nat. Hist. Bookcase] $15.00 & $3 shipping by media. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Shiras, George. THE WHITE SHEEP, GIANT MOOSE, AND SMALLER GAME OF THE KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA. in National Gergraphic Magazine, May, 1912. A photographic expedition to the Kenai Peninsula, especially Skilak Lake. Whole issue. Light water damage, otherwise very good. INV#1122. $10.00 plus $3.00 postage & packing for this book, $1 for each additional book.

Welsh, Stanley L. Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent parts of Canada. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974. 724 pages. ISBN: 0842507051. Very good; former owner's name. For price and availability email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Wilimovsky, Norman J., and John N. Wolfe, editors. Environment of the Cape Thompson region, Alaska. 1966. United States. Committee on Environmental Studies for Project Chariot. (United States Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Technical Information). 1250 pages. illustrations, maps (7 folding, in pocket). "Russian translation of abstracts": pp. 1213-1223. Includes bibliographies. [keywords: Natural history--Alaska--Cape Thompson region, Northwest Alaska. Radioecology--Alaska. Eskimos--Alaska. Northwest Alaska. Chukchi Sea]. Ed Thomas, in 1966 Curator of Natural Science at the Ohio State Museum, regarded this volume as one of the most comprehensive regional environmental studies ever undertaken. Dan O'Neill, authot of "Firecracker Boys", calls this the first genuine environmental impact statement. No library of Alaska natural history is complete without it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Previous Scientific Explorations-Norman J. Wilimovsky
THE LAND- PHYSICAL: Weather and Climate.-P. W. Allen and R. O. Weedfall; Geographic Setting-Reuben Kachadoorian; Areal Geology-Russell H. CamPbell
Engineering Geology of the Chariot Site.-Reuben Kachadoorian; Drilling, Coring, and Frozen-core Analysis-G. R. Lange and T. K. Smith; Groundwater Hydrology-Roger M. Waller
Surface-water Discharge of Ogotoruk Creek-E. H. Likes; Chemical Character and Sedimentation of the Waters.-William L. Lamar; Permafrost and the Geothermal Regimes-A. H. Lachenbruch, G. W. Greene, and B. V. Marshall; Seismic, Gravity, and Magnetic Measurements-David F. Barnes; Slope Movement and Related Phenomena-K. R. Everett; Soils of Ogotoruk Creek Watershed-N. Holowaychuk, J. H. Petro, H. R. Finney, R. S. Farnham and P. L. Gersper
THE LAND-BIOTIC SYSTEMS AND BIOENVIRONMENT:
Vegetation and Flora.-Albert W. Johnson, Leslie A. Viereck, Ross E. Johnson, and Herbert Melchior; Palynology of the Ogotoruk Creek Area.-Calvin J. Heusser; Freshwater Algae and Zooplankton-Douglas K. Hilliard and Jerry C. Tash; Limnology of Tundra Ponds and Ogotoruk Creek.-D. G. Watson, W. C. Hanson, J. J. Davis, and C. E. Cushing; Avifaunal Investigations.-Francis S. L. Williamson, Max C. Thompson, and John Q. Hines; The Caribou of Northwestern Alaska.-Peter C. Lent; Ecology of Terrestrial Mammals-William O. Pruitt, Jr.; Terrestrial Invertebrates.-D. G. Watson, J. J. Davis, and W. C. Hanson
THE COAST-PHYSICAL: Arctic Beach Sedimentation.-George W. Moore
THE COAST-BIOENVIRONMENT: Sea-cliff Birds.-L. G. Swartz; Zooplankton of Some Arctic Coastal Lagoons.-Martin W. Johnson
THE CHUKCHI SEA-PHYSICAL: Oceanography of the Southeastern Chukchi Sea-Richard H. Fleming and Diane Heggarty; Geology of the Southeastern Chukchi Sea.-Joe S. Creager and Dean A. McManus; Marine Geology of the Ogotoruk Creek Area-David W. Scholl and C. L. Sainsbury
THE CHUKCHI SEA - BIOENVIRONMENT: Net Plankton Volumes in the Chukchi Sea-T. Saunders English; Benthic Invertebrates of the Southeastern-Chukchi Sea.-Albert K. Sparks and Walter T. Pereyra; The Ascidians.-Donald P. Abbott; Fishery Investigations of the Southeastern Chukchi Sea.-Dayton L. Alverson and Norman J. Wilimovsky; The Salmon Resource.-Howard D. Smith, Allyn H. Seymour, and Lauren R. Donaldson; Marine Mammals-Murray L. Johnson, Clifford H. Fiscus, Burton T. Ostenson, and Myron L. Barbour
THE PEOPLE: Archaeology of Ogotoruk Creek.-Frederick Hadleigh West; Human Ecological Investigations at Kivalina.-Doris J. Saario and Brina Kessel; A Human Geographical Study.-D. C. Foote and H. A. Williamson; Meat Consumption at Three Northern Eskimo Villages.-Christine A. Heller
RADIOACTIVITY: Aeroradioactivity Survey of the Lisburne Peninsula and Adjacent Areas.-Robert G. Bates; Adsorption Equilibria Between Earth Materials and Radionuclides.-J. H. Baker, W. A. Beetem, and J. S. Wahlberg; Radiological Analyses of Marine Organisms.-Allyn H. Seymour; Radioactivity in Northern Alaskan Eskimos and Their Foods, Summer 1962.-W. C. Hanson, H. E. Palmer, and B. I. Griffin; Radionuclides in Terrestrial and Freshwater Biota.-D. C. Watson, W. C. Hanson, J. J. Davis, and W. H. Rickard
Bibliography; List of Contributors; Russian Translation of Abstracts; Index; Geographic Names Map; Areal Geology Map; Engineering Geology Map; Soils Map; Vegetation Map; Radioactivity Map. Very good condition. $75 plus $5.00 media mail postage (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Nat Hist Bookcase]. To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

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