Coming Summer 2012On Arctic Ground: Tracking Time Through Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve  Author Debbie
S. Miller is currently collaborating on a book of photography and essays
featuring the wildlife and landscape of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
(Reserve). On Arctic Ground: Tracking Time Through Alaska’s National
Petroleum Reserve will be published in May, 2012. Miller is the author
of Midnight Wilderness and has explored the Arctic region of
Alaska for nearly 40 years.
Originally set aside by President Harding in 1923 as a
resource for military fuel needs, the Reserve is home to half a million
migrating caribou, countless migrating birds from all over the world, and,
surprisingly, one of the largest Polar dinosaur fossil beds in the Arctic. The Reserve is also the largest piece of undisturbed public land in the United States—yet
few outside of Alaska have ever heard of it.
On Arctic Ground will feature a series of vignettes written by Miller
about the astonishing array of wildlife she has encountered over many seasons
exploring the Reserve. Additionally, former Secretary of the Interior Bruce
Babbitt is writing the book’s Preface, drawing on his years of experience
managing both the economic and biological resources of the Reserve.
Miller’s
vignettes will be accompanied by images from an array of award-winning
conservation photographers. The b ook will also feature essays and insight from Alaskan writers and science authorities—including wildlife biologist Jeff
Fair and senior Audubon Alaska scientist John Schoen—as well as an essay and audio download by noted Alaska
writer and soundscape artist Richard
Nelson. Paleontologists Jack Horner and Patrick Druckenmiller will share the most recent research and
remarkable discoveries associated with dinosaur studies in the Alaskan
Arctic.
This book will serve as a media platform to bring
greater public awareness to the opportunities for permanently preserving the
significant biological areas and wildlife that thrive within the Reserve.
Braided River will collaborate with the Alaska
Wilderness League to bring this story to members of Congress, the media,
and the general public.
To find out more about Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve and what you can do now to protect it, visit the websites below: Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve: America's Unknown Treasure Chill the Drills: Protect America's Arctic
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On Arctic Ground - Author Debbie S. Miller grew up near the San Francisco Bay. In 1975, she
and her husband, Dennis, moved to teach in Arctic Village, Alaska, a
Gwich’in Athabascan Indian village located on the southern boundary of
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Over the past twenty-eight years,
Miller and her family have explored the refuge on many trips through all
of its seasons.Miller has authored ... |
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On Arctic Ground - Essayist Richard Nelson is a writer, activist, cultural anthropologist, and subsistence hunter who lives in Southeast Alaska. His books include Patriotism and the American Land, Make Prayers to the Raven (which became an award-winning PBS television series), Hunters of the Northern Forest, Shadow of the Hunter, and Hunters of the Northern Ice. Nelson's awards include the John Borroughs Medal for nature ... |
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Arctic Wings - Essayist Jeff Fair is a wildlife biologist with four books to his credit, including Moose for Kids and The Great American Bear. His essays have appeared in Alaska Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, Equinox, Ranger Rick, Audubon Magazine, and Appalachia,
where he is a contributing editor. In 1998 he received the National
Wildlife Federation’s Farrand/Strohm Writing Award, and ... |
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