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...there is another Alaska -- a land of mining towns and tourist boats, of developers and exploiters. Gradually, but inexorably, oil rigs encroached upon the wilderness, and a huge pipeline now snakes its way across the icy expanses where caribou roam. Loggers have cut ever deeper into the lush forests, and fishermen have cast ever wider nets off the winding shores. From Prudhoe Bay in the north to Anchorage in the south, swarms of settlers have tapped the state's wealth as fast as they could...
...state's name comes from an Aleutian word that means "great land." And no one who has ever seen Alaska's panoramic peaks, its rushing rivers and teeming wildlife would argue with that description. Alaska is great in beauty, in majesty and in sheer size. If laid atop the lower 48 states, it would stretch from Florida to California. The territory that was once called Seward's Folly is rich almost beyond comprehension in oil, coal, timber and fish. Alaska is truly America's last frontier, a place of wonder that is virtually unspoiled and a priceless treasure that...
...polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that erode into gullies. And oily wastes have leached out of supposedly secure dumps. The consequences of the contamination are unclear, but some scientists believe that since the permafrost confines biological activity to a layer of ^ earth just a couple of feet thick, and because its flora...
SERENGETI DIARY (PBS, April 12, 8 p.m. on most stations). The ever popular National Geographic specials conclude their season with a look at the people and wildlife of this beautiful East African wilderness...
Moving along. If ever you get the chance to attend one of Melodye Stewart's workshops on African contributions to civilization, go. After 14 years as a corporate secretary, this dynamic mother of one returned to school and developed the courses in which she teaches that not all great things came from European minds. And keep an eye out for books by Luke Pontifell. He does not write them but prints them, beautifully, by hand. Last year his Thornwillow Press published Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s J.F.K. Remembered, and in July he will bring out a book by Walter Cronkite...