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The Biden administration has effectively halted the controversial Ambler Road project in Alaska, which aimed to create an industrial route through the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to access copper and zinc deposits. The Bureau of Land Management cited concerns about irreversible harm to wildlife, particularly caribou herds, as the reason for denying the project. Alaska's Republican senators criticized the decision, while Indigenous groups and conservationists praised it. Additionally, the administration announced increased protection for 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which drew mixed reactions from Indigenous groups. [Extracted from the article]

Discusses the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. Description of the area; Discussion of the frontier in the United States; Question of values, and of whether wilderness should be drilled or protected; Question of how much oil is beneath the ANWR coastal plain.

Presents information on the Trans-Alaska pipeline in Alaska. Role of the pipeline in destroying the wilderness areas in Alaska; Estimates on the quantity of oil supplied; Problems encountered in the construction of the pipeline.

The article focuses on the effort of wilderness activist Robert Marshall in wilderness preservation in Alaska. Particular focus is given to the authorship on the civilization of Eskimos and Native Americans in his book "Arctic Village: A 1930s Portrait of Wiseman, Alaska". His authorship of the motto North to the Future for the Glacier Park in the state is also highlighted.

The author talks about her experience spending a summer in Alaska as an intern at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Topics include the humbling experience of attempting to conquer the wilderness, the impossibility of ignoring one's own insignificance when living in a town nestled in dramatic landscapes, and the independence and self-sufficiency provided by hikers' free reign on public land in Alaska.

The article focuses on the strategy to conserve bisons in the Alaska wilderness. Topics discussed include monitoring of the bison by Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center's director Mike Miller, search of sages by Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Bob Stephenson, and finding suitable home for bisons in Alaska.

The article describes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. It notes the executive order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in January 2015 directing the Fish and Wildlife Service to begin managing the entire refuge as wilderness, and called the Congress for a lasting protection of the area. Cites spotted include Brooks Range, a sand bar on the Aichilik River and a view where the Aichilik River meets the Beaufort Sea.

The article discusses Veterans Expeditions of various military veterans in Togiak Wilderness area in Alaska, including Bradley Noone, Nick Watson and Capt. John Jinishian and mentions their experiences of fly fishing.

The article focuses on the wilderness areas in Alaska. Topics include the impression of 25-year-old photographer and environmental filmmaker Ben Hamilton on wild places in the state, the Wilderness Act signed by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson into law in 1964 which established the National Wilderness Preservation System, and the contribution of the wilderness area in the economy of the state, particularly the tourism industry.

The article focuses on the wilderness areas in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska. The definition of wilderness under the Wilderness Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1964 is mentioned. The archipelago has 18 wilderness areas under the Wilderness Act. Misty Fjords is said to be the largest of these areas. It is formerly known as Forest Reserve No. 1 due to its timber status. The author's experience of bushwhacking in the rainforest of Alaska is also mentioned.

The article offers information on the historic sites and landscapes located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in McCarthy Road in Alaska. The author explains that the park, which is considered as North America's largest and wildest national park, contains 70 percent of land that is designated as a wilderness area. Details related to the park's historic articfact, the Kennecott Mine National Historic Landmark, and the travel services offered in the park are also included. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents photographs of the Alaskan wilderness, including the Dawes Glacier and a Bohemian waxwing feeding on mountain ash berries.

An essay is presented on the Alaskan wilderness. The author describes April in Alaska. He reveals the things he had seen while paddling upstream. He recounts his experience while camping. According to him, salmon supply the bulk of nutrition to both plants and animals in Alaska, and are greatly aided by beavers.

The article discusses the old Alaskan marriage commissioner law. The marriage commissioner performed some unusual weddings in the wilderness. According to American cultural history professor Stephen Haycox, marriage commissioners were very useful during the state's early days, when the closest minister or judge could be several days' travel away. The author notes that the Alaska statute remains useful because it is a lot easier to pay a lodge owner or cruise-ship staffer to get a license than to find a parish priest.

The article features the wild lands in Alaska. The undeveloped lands in southwestern Alaska is one of the world's top ten metal reserves containing copper, gold and molybdenum, worth $300 billion. The Bristol Bay streams holds the world's largest run of wild salmon. Results in a recent survey showed that people living in the community prefer more designated wilderness within the forest with no increase in logging. They see the proposed developments as a great threat to the natural resources.

The author recounts his experience cruising in Southeast Alaska. He stayed aboard the C-Dory 25 Anna Leigh boat heading back to Anacortes. They were rafted up in one of several inlets surrounding the Misty Fjords National Monument. Upon arrival at the federal wilderness preserve, he saw the beauty of the whole area.

The article presents the author's experience of his visit to Lost Coast, a stretch of California. According to the author, most part the Lost Coast is defined by two large government holdings. The 7,800-acre Sinkyone Wilderness State Park at the southern edge is a morass of sheer headlands and isolated coves. At the north of Sinkyone is the 64,000 acre King Range National Conservation Area. The region is the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's largest West Coast tract outside of Alaska and is the heart of the Lost Coast.

Describes recreational fishing opportunities and regulations in several remote rivers in Alaska. King salmon fishing in the Ayakulik River; Management of wilderness rivers by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service through the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge; Efforts to protect wildlife; Arctic grayling and rainbow trout in the Gulkana River; Restrictions on the Brooks River; Sceneries enjoyed by anglers.

This article focuses on the exploration of Alaskan glaciers. At Mendenhall Glacier, the fog limited how far onr could see. Then — as if a curtain had suddenly been lifted — the clouds parted and the massive river of ice revealed itself, like a prehistoric apparition summoned to greet tourists. Of all the attractions Alaska offers, glaciers arc perhaps the most compelling. After all. Alaska is one of only a few places in the world where yon can still find tidewater glaciers — other cruise destinations include Chile and Scandinavia. A glacier is formed when snow falls high in the mountains and slowly compacts into ice. As it gels denser and heavier, the ice eventually begins to flow downhill. Every cruise of Alaska includes at least one day of "scenic cruising," which is spent in a park or wilderness area renowned for its glaciated landscape. The most sought-after destination for glacier viewing is the aptly named Glacier Bay National Park, where visitors find 12 tidewater glaciers. INSETS: WHO GOES THERE;GLACIERS 101.

Presents the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Photographs of sceneries; Wildlife and natural landscapes; Description of the national park.

Reports on small animals found in the wilderness of Alaska. Warblers; Short-tailed weasel; Red squirrel; Red-backed vole; Snowshoe hare; Shrews; Porcupine; Northern hawk owls; Arctic fox; Hoary marmots.

Provides basic information about Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Weather condition; Abundance of aquatic resources; Scenery of the wilderness areas.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska protects more than 13 million acres of mountains, tundra, forests, ice fields--and solitude. At the park's headquarters near Copper Center--four hours by car from Anchorage, five if you take some time with the roadside views-a new visitor center had just opened. It was empty. So was the parking lot. Over at the administration building, Gary Candelaria, the superintendent, said an accurate head count of visitors was impossible because Wrangell-St. Elias has no tollbooths or entrance fee. His best guess, for visitors, was between 30,000 and 60,000 a year. That top figure is what Great Smoky Mountains National Park might expect on a summer weekend. Moreover, a visitor can't really experience this park the way one might driving through Yellowstone or Yosemite. There is no through here, only over. At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias is far and away the largest unit in the entire National Park System, nearly six times the size of Yellowstone. With Canada's Kluane National Park and Tatshenshini-Alsek Park next door, and the United States' Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve just around the corner, Wrangell-St. Elias and its neighbors embrace a United Nations World Heritage site that is the largest internationally protected wildland on Earth. Four majestic mountain ranges converge here: the outliers of the Alaska Range on the north, the volcanic Wrangells--part of the Pacific Rim's Ring of Fire--merging into the St. Elias Mountains in the center of the park, and the snaggle-toothed Chugach confronting the Gulf of Alaska on the southwest. Mount St. Elias tops out at 18,008 feet, the highest peak in the U.S. after Denali. Mount Wrangell, a 14,000-footer, remains tectonically active; plumes of steam occasionally rise hundreds of feet above its icy summit.

Presents information on several package tours offered by Sierra Club Outings in 2003. Cost of the tours; Background on Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming; Discussion on the wilderness areas in Alaska.

Shares the author and his friends' wilderness adventure at the Kodiak Island in Alaska. Hunting of eiders, north Pacific's sea ducks; Weather-related problems; Commercial uses of eiders; Eider species that inhabit Alaska.

Describes the Arctic National Wildlife Range in Alaska as the last great wilderness in the United States. Information on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act; How John Schoen, senior scientist with the Audubon Alaska described the refuge in the book `Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony'; Description of a trip to the refuge.

Presents information on letting children experience backpacking in wilderness areas in Alaska.

Presents an article on camping at a wilderness area, circumnavigating the Nation Creek drainage in Alaska.

Focuses on conservationists' efforts to protect public lands in Alaska. Vulnerability of Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge to development and industrialization; Increased pressures on wilderness areas; Decline of essence of wilderness.

Presents the authors account of their travel to the Glacier, an area of wilderness and frozen ravine in Alaska. Dogs and horses that accompanied them on the journey; Range of activities that the authors did while on their journey; Celebration of the arrival of the millennium while on the trip.

Discusses the attraction of nameless places in the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska. Emotions evoked in explorers when in the arctic wilderness; Author's own experiences while exploring the Gates; Exploration and naming of some places in the Gates by Robert Marshall from 1929 to 1939; Plan for no more geographic naming in the Gates; Environmental benefits of not naming places in the Gates. INSET: Do It Yourself..

Focuses on Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska as part of the magazine's special feature called "America's Best Vacations." Observations of the author about glaciers that came as a surprise, noting the use of steel spikes on crampons that made walking on solid ice easier; Number of yearly visitors to Wrangell-St. Elias, noting it's one of the least visited national parks in the United States; Plans of the National Park Service to increase visitation; Description of the town of McCarthy where the national park is located; Difficulty in getting to the park.

Provides information on several places in the United States that are candidates for the status of a wilderness that needs to be protected. Grand Canyon National Park; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. INSET: Land of the Burning Man.

Describes the author's backpacking trip in the Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska. Beauty of the wilderness area; Peaks and glaciers; Trip along Coal Creek; Description of the North and South Branch of Trimble Glacier. INSETS: Tordrillo mountains;How to deal with river crossings.