1. BATTLEGROUND ALASKA:ANTISTATISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN AMERICA'S LAST WILDERNESS.
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HAYCOX, STEPHEN
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ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *STATEHOOD (American politics) , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *POWER (Social sciences) , *NATURAL resources , *GOVERNMENT policy , *NATURAL resource laws , *MANAGEMENT ,FEDERAL government of the United States - Abstract
Alaska's narrow economy, dependent on federal spending and on absentee investment in exploitation of the state's natural resources, has generated especially vehement, comprehensive resistance to federal environmental protection of the state's wilderness areas. Falsely persuaded that the federal government has reneged on promises made at statehood in 1959 to develop resources on its Alaska lands, Alaska politicians, with broad public support, accuse federal officials of systematically impeding the state's economic advance. They do so despite a landmark case in federal court that declared the state's claims invalid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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