CHAPTER 2
CONSERVATION IN TRANSITION
Perhaps better than anyone else, Celia Hunter and Virginia Hill Wood embodied the positive qualities that outsiders often associated with Alaska. They had met as World War II Women Air Force Service Pilot flyers, better known as WASPs, and first visited Alaska in 1947. After several postwar jobs as pilots, they returned to Alaska and, with Hill’s husband, Morton Wood, a former Mount McKinley Park ranger, established Camp Denali, a summer camp devoted to nature study and recreation, at Wonder Lake on the northern edge of Mount McKinley National Park. “We have operated on a very simple principle,” Ginny Wood explained, “of just making our income balance our expenditures. … Mostly we just rolled up our sleeves ...
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