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| Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery
     
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Hardcover
128 pages
Aperture
Published 2001
From Book News, Inc.
Photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum provides dramatic color photographs of the unusual landscape found in southwest Alaska. The essay by wildlife biologist Bruce Hampton addresses the environmental issues involved in managing a habitat and sustainable fishery that meets the needs of all species. The publication was sponsored by the Alaska Conservation Foundation in order to make the public aware of the beauty and importance of the region's natural system. Oversize: 13x12.25.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
About the Author
Robert Glenn Ketchum is the curator of photography for the National Park Foundation. He has received the United Nations Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award and the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
In his most stunningly beautiful book to date, renowned landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum turns his encompassing and color-rich vision to the vast habitat and fisheries resources of southwest Alaska and Bristol Bay. With his artist's eye for color, texture, and extraordinary detail, Ketchum's large and powerful images capture the immense richness of this magnificently wild country.
Framed between some of Alaska's most spectacular mountain ranges and the northern Pacific, here lies the spawning ground of the world's largest population of sockeye salmon. It is also one of the last productive wild fisheries remaining on earth, providing bountiful harvests for a host of dependent creatures-from whales to grizzlies to fishermen.
Co-author Bruce Hampton provides an engaging and comprehensive essay on the life history of sockeye salmon, the region's commercial and sport fisheries, and their crucial importance to the region's environment and the people who depend on salmon for survival. Greg Syverson's intimate photographs of fish and their aquatic habitat further illuminate the text. |
Overlooked in America: The Success and Failure of Federal Land Management
Robert Glenn Ketchum; & Charles Callison (Contributor) |  |
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Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery
Robert Glenn Ketchum; Bruce Hampton; & Jan Konigsberg (Introduction) |  |
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The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest
Robert Glenn Ketchum; Carey D. Ketchum (Contributor); & Roderick Nash (Introduction) |  |
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Northwest Passage
Robert Glenn Ketchum; & Barry Lopez (Contributor) |  |
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