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is the scene of some of the most intense environmental
debates on the planet. Fishing, forestry, pollution,
climate change and resource exploitation are challenging
the region's scientists, industrialists and policymakers.
Yet Alaska still has some of the world's wildest places
and largest wildlife populations.
Should we be trying to keep the Alaskan environment
as pristine as possible? Or does the state's low population
and unspoilt condition give us more room to use its
abundant
natural resources?
In a series of four dispatches, Nature news's
John Whitfield looks at these issues.
John
Whitfield won a fellowship to
visit Alaska from the Institutes for Journalism and
Natural Resources. www.ijnr.org
All
photos
© J. Whitfield
unless specified.
Web
Producer
Charlotte Westney.
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