SITKA, ALASKA In the final installment of our oral history series on the West Chichagof wilderness, Bob Fedoroff, the son of Jack Calvin’s second wife, Margaret, talks about his mother’s contribution to the effort to create a wilderness in Southeast. Chuck and Alice Johnstone, and Mary Purvis share more memories of Jack Calvin, and Gene Irvine remembers how the entire undertaking could be distilled down to a brief standoff between Jack Calvin and a brown bear at Goulding Lakes. Chuck and Alice Johnstone remember their friend Jack Calvin. The Johnstones accepted the Bob Marshall Champions of Wilderness Award on behalf of the Sitka Conservation Society this fall in Washington DC. It is one of the highest honors bestowed by the US Forest Service.

Images courtesy Bill Foster.

Excerpts of text and photos from “Nakwasina Goes North”: page 1, page 2, page 3.
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