Living River: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado
Dave Showalter
(Author)
Description
2023 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Nature & the Environment2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Regional Adult Nonfiction
2024 Colorado Book Awards Finalist in Creative Nonfiction
- Engages and inspires readers on an epic watershed journey that celebrates life, beauty, and resilience
- The famed Colorado River is the lifeblood of the American West
- Addresses the antiquated water allocation guidelines that are set to be revised in 2026
With powerful visual storytelling, Living River illustrates how we can create a resilient watershed if we change our relationship with water. Exploring the endangered Colorado River from source to sea, award-winning photographer Dave Showalter provides a deeper understanding of how countless numbers of creatures and 40 million humans depend upon its water and how the futures of all are inextricably linked to the health of the river. Starting at the headwaters in the Continental Divide, Showalter covers the wide range of issues facing the river and highlights places that demonstrate the land's resilience, offering hope for the future. Throughout, he weaves in the stories of riverkeepers like Cynthia Wilson, who works to ensure universal access to clean water for her Diné community; Holly Richter, a conservation leader on the San Pedro River; and Tom Koerner, manager of the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Living River forms the foundation for a robust impact campaign that will inform and influence stakeholders in the development of a new river compact, one that embraces new technology, conserves and restores our western rivers for wildlife and recreation, and recalibrates water consumption within the Colorado River system.
Product Details
Price
$39.95
$37.15
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Publish Date
March 22, 2023
Pages
192
Dimensions
9.5 X 9.7 X 1.1 inches | 2.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781680516326
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Conservation photographer and author Dave Showalter is focused on the American West. Dave works throughout the ecosystems of the Intermountain West and has published two books prior to Living River: Sage Spirit: The American West at a Crossroads (Braided River), and Prairie Thunder: The Nature of Colorado's Great Plains (Skyline Press). Dave is a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, and a long-time contributor and partner of Platte Basin Time-lapse. Dave works in partnership with numerous conservation groups, including: Audubon Rockies, The Nature Conservancy, and Trout Unlimited Headwaters chapter on the Living River project. With Living River and conservation story-telling, Dave seeks to take readers on a journey to see ourselves as part of nature and the community of living things, engendering empathy, caring, and love of the natural world--the genesis of meaningful conservation. Dave is based in Arvada, Colorado.
Reviews
An informative examination and celebration of the beautiful and endangered Colorado River and its importance for people and wildlife.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"