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Anchorage, Alaska
30th September – 6th October
 2005



Wilderness,
Wildlands
and People:
A Partnership
for the Planet
 



"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its melancholy and its charm"

Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States 1901-1909
 
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Proceedings from the
7th World Wilderness Congress
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ALASKA FACTS:
 
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Facts from The Alaska Almanac© 26th Edition:

Highest peak: Mt. McKinley, 20,320 feet
Motto: “North to the Future”
Nickname: “The Last Frontier”
State capital: Juneau
Population: 626,932
State song: “Alaska’s Flag”
State bird: willow ptarmigan
State flower: forget-me-not
State fossil: woolly mammoth
State gem: jade
State insect: four-spot skimmer dragonfly
State land mammal:  moose
State marine mammal: bowhead whale
State mineral: gold
State sport: dog mushing
State tree: Sitka spruce.

 

 
 

"The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild."   Isak Dinesen
 

 
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