Caribou and the Arctic on Uncertain Ground
- Duration
- 90 min
- Ages
- 6+
- Price From
- $24
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Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024
6:30 PM
UAA Recital Hall
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Event Info
Join Author/Photographer Seth Kantner and UAA Ecologist Paddy Sullivan as they share their unique perspectives, stories and photographs of dramatic changes they have observed while living and working in northwest Alaska. Topics include living with caribou, decline of the Western Arctic Herd, sea ice retreat, changes in climate, thawing permafrost, proliferation of trees and shrubs, stream degradation, and other related issues. Seth Kantner was born and raised in the wilderness of northern Alaska and homeschooled on the land. He has worked as a trapper, commercial fisherman, wilderness guide and adjunct professor, and has spoken nationwide and in Canada. He is a Whiting Award winner for his debut novel Ordinary Wolves, which also won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Publishers Weekly Best Books, and other awards. His fifth book and most recent release, A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou, received the National Outdoor Book Award and others. His writing and wildlife photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, Outside and other publications and anthologies, and he has been a columnist for Orion and the Anchorage Daily News. Kantner attended the University of Alaska and University of Montana, where he earned a BA in journalism. A commercial fisherman for five decades, he divides his time between the Kobuk River and the Arctic coast. The CAS Community Lecture Series serves as a fundraiser for the college and all net proceeds will benefit students, programs, and future events like this. |
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Ticket required for all ages
UAA Recital Hall
Fine Arts Building
University of Alaska Anchorage
3700 Alumni Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508