Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-‘in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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The eloquent voice of Rick Bass has been raised regularly in celebration and defense of The united states’s wilderness and Flora and fauna. In Caribou Rising, Bass journeys to one of the most sole remaining landscapes on Earth where the wild is entirely untrammeled—Alaska’s Arctic National Flora and fauna Refuge, where great caribou herds gather, calve, and migrate, and where the ancient bond between animals and human hunters still informs day-to-day life.
As the Bush administration used to be pressuring Congress to open the Refuge to oil drilling, Bass traveled to Arctic Village to enroll in the native Gwich-‘in in their annual caribou hunt. He wanted to witness and report on what we all stand to lose if that comes to pass.
Caribou Rising details Bass’s time hunting in addition to talking with the Gwich-‘in and their leaders, and offers his reflections on the profound differences between that culture and our own, and on the ancient physical and non secular connection between the Gwich-‘in and the caribou.
Those who read this strange testament to the Refuge, the caribou, and the Gwich-‘in will come to appreciate the interconnectedness of all three, and cannot help but be inspired to make a stand in their defense.
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