News headlines break my heart over and over again. Worldwide, one of 10 faunal species will be gone by 2100.
A river snakes through wild lands near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska on Sept. 11, 2022.
I keep writing about the Arctic beyond the pages of my new memoir, speaking up on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s anniversaries or when some ploy threatens the Brooks Range. The conservation icon Robert “Bob” Marshall — a one-time forester and inspiration for the Wilderness Act of 1964 — still overly stuck on northern Alaska’s importance for humans, valued its wildlands for “the emotional values of the frontier,” the sense of discovery, freedom and self-sufficiency that they preserved.
After a lengthy permitting process, the scheme by 2022 had reached the phase of preparatory fieldwork when the Interior Department, believing the environmental analysis to be awed, halted it. It will resume when the Washington, D.C. pendulum swings to the right again. Civilization’s mission creep in the high latitudes, the changed seasons and vegetation, the loss of species and silence, of clean water and contemplation, won’t be outright clear to the next generation, which inherits all this. You could argue that I contributed through my writing and guiding and lifestyle, though the largest group I ever guided up north numbered five — a High Peaks all-women backpacking trip — and I remain child- and carless.
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