“The timber industry is not worrying much about the wildlife on Admiralty Island or anywhere else ...” and unless there is a potent public outcry, the U.S. Forest Service is about to preside over the destruction of the largest stand of virgin forest in the United States.
What future do we want for what remains of wild America, and to whom shall it be entrusted? This question boils at the heart of conservation polities, and nowhere more hotly than in the growing controversy over the magnificent North Cascades in Washington. The author of this report on the tangled struggle over the Cascades’ future is editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin Company, a director of the Sierra Club, and the author of ROADLESS AREA.
Speaking from long devotion to Alaska and with high aspirations for its future, Ernest Gruening, Alaska’s governor from 1939 to 1953 and its senator since it became a state, argues in favor of the proposed Rampart Canyon Dam, which Paul Brooks attacked in his article “The Plot to Drown Alaska” in the May ATLANTIC.
Author of ROADLESS AREA, this year’s winner of the .John Burroughs Medal. Paul Brooks is a frequent contributor to the ATLANTIC, in addition lo his regular duties as editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin Company, In his article “Alaska: Last frontier” (ATLANTIC,September, 196%) he pointed out (hat to the conservationist, liAlaska today offers us something that history seldom affords — a second chance/is the present paper makes clear, ill-conceived projects like Rampart Dam could destroy (hat chance forever.
Publisher, writer, conservationist , PAUL BKOOKS spends most of his holidays camping with his wife in remote spots from Alaska to East Africa. His account of their adventures,many of which have been described in theATLANTIC, will be published this month by Alfred A. Knopf under the title ROADLESS AREA.
PAUL BROOKS, who is editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin Company, last appeared in these pages with an account of a trip to Mount McKinley Park and the Alaskan tundra. He is presently bringing together the experiences that he and his wife hare enjoyed in our “roadless areas” for a book to be published next year.
The editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin. PAUL BROOKS spends every holiday exploring the more remote and primitive of our national parks. As this goes to press he and his wife are deep in Canyonlands, that area in Utah which is note being considered for a new park.
Editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin, PAUL BROOKSis a rugged canoeist whose holidays are spent exploring the remote areas of wilderness in North America. In earlier ATLANTIC articles he has described the Quetico-Superior canoe country, the Great Smoky Mountains, and Isle Royale. He here lakes us to Algonquin Park.
A rugged canoeist whose holidays are spent exploring with his wife the more remote areas of wilderness of North America, PAUL BROOKSis deeply concerned with the preservation of these areas in our national parks. Mr. Brooks is the editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin and a frequent contributor to theATLANTIC.
PAUL BROOKS,editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin Company, has written previously for the ATLANTIC about wilderness areas tn which he and his wife hare traveled during their holidays and whose preservation is one of his chief concerns. He has visited the Quetico-Superior canoe country, the Olympics, and the Great Smoky Mountains, and here he describes Isle Royale in Lake Superior.