Karen Brewster's new book "Boots, Bikes and Bombers" is available!

Karen Brewster, Research Associate in the Oral History Program at the Rasmuson Library, UAF, published "Boots, Bikes and Bombers - Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood" (University of Alaska Press). This book documents the life history of Ginny Hill Wood through oral history recordings. Ginny Hill Wood was a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman who served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in World War II, co-founded Camp Denali, Alaska's first wilderness ecotourism lodge, helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state's first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction and preservation.