Alaska Wildlife: Through the Season - Softcover

AUTHOR HOMETOWN: Denali Park, AK AUTHOR BIO: Tom Walker has lived in Alaska for more than 40 years and is the author of over a dozen books centered on Alaska. A freelance photographer and writer, his work has been published in Alaska Magazine, Field and Stream, Readers' Digest, Newsweek, Audubon, Sierra, and many other regional and national publications. Walker has been a wildlife conservation officer, wilderness guide, loghome builder (shoulder surgery preempted that career), wildlife and nature photographer, and freelance writer. In his early years, he followed the rodeo circuit, after a stint as a horse packer in the eastern High Sierras in his home state of California. Like many others, the military took him to Alaska, where he mustered out and sank roots. Walker now lives in a log house on the very edge of Denali National Park and, despite the sometimes extreme winter weather-down to -50º F in winter-he finds the rural life fulfilling. He has won awards for both his photography and his volunteer work with Alaska wildlife issues. His two volume history of McKinley Park (1902-1930 era), now renamed Denali National Park, took almost 30 years to complete and features extensive interviews and research: o Kantishna-Mushers, Miners, Mountaineers: The Pioneer Story Behind Mount McKinley National Park, $17.95, paper, Feb 2006, Pictorial Histories Publishing, ISBN 978-1575101248. o McKinley Station, $21.95, paper, Feb 2009, Pictorial Histories Publishing, ISBN 978-1575101453. Two other books of Walker's are currently still in print: o Caribou: Wanderer of the Tundra, $9.95, paper, Jun 2000, Graphic Arts Center, ISBN 978-1558685246. o National Geographic Guide to America's Outdoors: Alaska, co-authored with Nan Elliot, $24.00, paper, Jun 2001, National Geographic, ISBN 978-0792277477. Walker has been largely known for his wildlife images and other books on Alaskana. Most are now OP, including two of his most popular titles: o Alaska's Wildlife: originally published in 1995 by Graphic Arts, who then did a reissue in 2005 under their West Winds imprint (ISBN 978-0972792165). o Building the Alaska Log Home: originally published in 1983 by Alaska Northwest Books (used editions of this title sell for nearly $100 on Amazon!); the most recent edition was published in 2007 by Epicenter Press (ISBN 978-0979047039).