| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By Roger Kaye. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. xix + 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Roger Kaye's engaging story of the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a welcome addition to environmental literature. This eight million-acre preserve in the northeast corner of Alaska was first proposed as a wilderness preserve by Bob Marshall in 1937. At the conclusion of World War II the time was right to pursue Marshall's idea. Although environmentalists reacted mainly to threats, such as at Dinosaur National Monument, the Alaska fight was different. Instead of defensively reacting to development, in this case, a group of Wilderness Society environmentalists boldly suggested that a significant part of Alaska should never be developed. The proposed refuge would remain pristine, free from development and auto-based, convenience-oriented tourism. It would be the "last great wilderness," as Kaye calls it.

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