Helen Cherullo honored with Voice of the Wild award
 Helen with Tom Campion of Alaska Wilderness League and photographer Amy Gulick
Braided River executive director Helen Cherullo was honored with the 2011 Voice of the Wild award from Alaska Wilderness League in recognition of her contributions to promoting greater conservation awareness.Helen was presented the award by 2010 Voice of the Wild recipient - photographer and author of Salmon in the Trees - Amy Gulick. Amy said, "Helen takes a crazy idea and turns it into an engaging story that will
resonate with people who value our wild lands for their beauty, wildlife and
their benefits to all of us. Stories, after all, help us make sense of the
world around us."
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Images by Florian Schulz featured in National Geographic Magazine
 Photographs from award-winning wildlife photographer Florian Schulz are featured in the July issue of National Geographic Magazine accompanying a story by Audubon contributing editor Susan McGrath. The article, entitled On Thin Ice, describes the threats facing polar bears in the rapidly warming Arctic. If the sea ice continues to shrink, polar bears could face extinction in the wild. Read the full story here. To learn more about Florian Schulz and his work to protect wildlife corridors, visit www.VisionsoftheWild.com.
See Schulz's images from the National Geographic story and many more in his upcoming book, To the Arctic.
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| Midnight Wilderness by Debbie S. Miller
Originally published more than twenty years ago, Midnight Wilderness:Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a passionate and vivid account of one of the world’s greatest
natural treasures - the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Author Debbie S.
Miller draws on her years of exploring this unique, magical, and expansive
territory, weaving chilling adventure, personal anecdote, wildlife observation,
and Native American life into a beautiful and compelling memoir of place.
A new afterword by the author explains the challenges still facing the refuge in
the twenty-first century, and how we might preserve it for generations to come.
Proceeds from sales of this book will benefit Alaska Wilderness League in
its ongoing efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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