500 wildlife refugees. some i write about in the book, west virginia, south carolina, this is big, wild country still. we saved this due to people like walt disney, william o douglas and others. so doug, it s gorgeous, it s irreplaceable, you ve got to go there. is there any warning this this book that tells us, wait a second, something is going on where we might lose part of this or something is under threat? the glaciers are melting. global warming is very real. if you could ask lisa murkowski whose probe for drilling in the arctic refuge. i begin this book with mir going at the outside passage. he s one of the great american writers. the glaciers he wrote about and documented in great detail. many of the species of alaska,
forest reserves, wanted to make sure the place wasn t overfished. this goes from roosevelt to dwight eisenhower where anwar was created. i remember talking to you as you were writing this book, you couldn t stop talking about the beauty of alaska. and at the end of the conversation you were like, you have to go. you can t explain it. i spent i have three kids 7 and under. my wife brought me to homer alaska. i picked a town because u.s. fish and wildlife runs the aleutians. as i document here in the 1950s it became a nuclear test bomb site during the cold war. now it s healed all these places. you have grae sea otters, seal life, walrus and incredible bird life. our u.s. government, we re always talking about federal cuts in the news. the u.s. fish and wildlife does a remarkable job of running the