Robert Glenn Ketchum: The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest - Softcover

Robert Glenn Ketchum is named in the centennial edition of Audubon magazine as one of the one hundred champions of conservation who shaped the environmental movement of the twentieth century. He was recently awarded the Josephine and Frank Duveneck Humanitarian Award, as well as the Robert O. Easton Award for Environmental Stewardship. These acknowledgments reflect the success of Ketchum's thirty-year career as an activist, photographer, and writer. Ketchum's work is exhibited internationally and included in major museum collections throughout the United States. He is a founder and on the Board of Directors of Advocacy Arts Foundation, a trustee of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, a member of the Board of Councilors of the American Land Conservancy, and on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Communication Offices (EC). Ketchum served for fifteen years as Curator of Photography for the National Park Foundation.

Carey D. Ketchum is a writer who is deeply interested in the Tongass National Forest.

Roderick Nash is a professor emeritus and former professor of history and environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Nash is the author of the acclaimed books Wilderness and the American Mind and The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental ethics (History of American Thought and Culture).

Steve Kallick is the former Campaign Manager of the Alaska Rainforest Campaign as well as Executive Director of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Environment Program of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

"Detail, perception, and sensitivity of whole surroundings. The combination of these qualities lives in Ketchum's work. And behind the exceptional work is a deeply committed and talented man."--Robert Redford