Beluga Days
Subtitle: Tracking a White Whale's Truths
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: December 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781582431512
Subjects: Endangered species & extinction of species; Marine Mammals; Nature; White whales; Nature/Ecology; White whale; Environmental Conservation & Protection - Endangered Species; Marine Life; Nature / Marine Life; Nature : Environmental Conservation & Protection - Endangered Species; Science / Oceanography; Endangered species; Mammals; Alaska; Cook Inlet
Description: "Living in waters adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, the beluga whales of Cook Inlet are an isolated and genetically distinct population. Living memory goes back to a time when these whales seemed countless, and in the early 1990s they still numbered more than 1000, but a sharp decline has brought them near extinction."

"Beluga Days is a wonderful evocation of the wildnerness of coastal Alaska and Native communities that still eat whale meat and depend on local foods. It is also a foray into the fascinating labyrinth of Alaskan culture, history, and politics, as the complex relationships in this unique state coalesce in a mad theater around the whale crisis.

With hunters, regulators, environmentalists, researchers, businesspeople, and whale lovers, Nancy Lord explores the challenges of protecting whales and habitat while respecting the centuries-old tradition of Native subsistence hunting and accommodating the many forces of change."--Jacket.