[pct-l] Is Alaska no longer wild?

[Mr. Los Angeles]

In James Campbell's "The Final Frontiersman," he tells the story of the last white person to set up as a trapper in the Alaska outback.  He is the last because sweeping new BLM rules went into effect a few years ago, making it impossible for anyone to go to Alaska, build a log cabin in the deep woods, and lead the old life of a trapper.

The author says that this guy is in fact, the only full-time white trapper left out there.  All the others have left the wilderness and moved to the cities.

The book also brings to mind the question whether Alaska really is wild anymore.  Is it getting subdivided, electrified, internet-ified, and domesticated like the lower 48?  

Sure, it probably will never actually be like the lower 48, but is Alaska really wild anymore?






       
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