A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound

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The 2.1 million acres (equivalent to Yellowstone National Park) of the wilderness study area are coming under increasing threat by resource development
Essays of personal explorations of the region by an award-winning creator are accompanied by dramatic images from an award-winning photographer
The wilderness study area is home to the largest concentration of tidewater glaciers in The us and hosts a vast diversity of terrestrial and aquatic mammals, birds, and fish

It s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is that more true than on the pages of A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound. The images of photographer Hugh Rose show you what this region holds and what’s going to be lost without protection from rampant resource development. Alongside Hugh s images are eloquent essays covering the natural and cultural history, people, and fragility of this region by noted Alaskan creator Debbie Miller.

Alaska s famed Prince William Sound includes more than 3,000 shore land miles of bays, coves, and deep fjords topped by the ice-capped peaks of the Chugach Mountains. More than 1 million tourists visit the region yearly, and small family-owned fishing boats, ecotourism, oyster farms, and guide products and services provide sustainable livelihoods for year-round Alaskan residents. Many Americans first came to know of Prince William Sound through the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 a catastrophe with lingering long-term effects, such the collapse of the once abundant herring population, a critical fish in the marine food chain.

In A Wild Promise, readers commute alongside Hugh and Debbie as they hike and kayak from Columbia Glacier to College Fiord, exploring the Nellie Juan College Fjord Wilderness Study Area, a region set aside for study in 1980, to be followed it was once hoped by permanent protection from Congress. But for almost 40 years Congress has failed to act. Today, it is likely one of the most vulnerable public lands areas, and must be secure before its pristine wilderness is destroyed.

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