Battleground Alaska
Subtitle: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780700622733
Subjects: Federal government; Alaska, politics and government; Public lands, canada; Environmental protection; Natural resources, canada; Wildlife management; Environmental policy, canada; Environmental policy, united states; Canada, environmental conditions
Description: "Alaska, "the most anti-statist of the American states," has for decades provided high-profile flashpoints for battles between environmentalists and promoters of economic development. Haycox argues that Alaskans' strong anti-statist sentiments (deep distrust of and anger towards federal regulation and control) have greatly amplified and exacerbated the tensions and critical volleys fired between these long-feuding camps. A case study in federal-state relations and environmental-development conflict, his book underscores Alaska's unique and volatile place in American politics and imagination"--