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Gila (Paperback, New)
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The forests comprising the Gila National Forest and Wilderness in
southwest New Mexico is the largest in the contiguous U.S., the
least visited or photographed, the one most wild in nature. It is
nestled at the nexus of four great ecosystems. It lies at the end
of the Rocky Mountains after they slide down the North American
continent like a glacier before breaking up into an archipelago of
small ranges floating in a sea of grasslands. A couple hundred
miles to the south, the Sierra Madre Mountains rise up, serrating
Mexico for another two thousand miles. To the west lies the Sonoran
Desert with its giant saguaros, and to the east spreads the
Chihuahuan Desert, a minimalist dream of small ranges and desert
grasslands. In its present state, the Gila is a functioning,
high-quality ecosystem of remote forests and canyons. The Gila
River courses through this land, the last undammed river in New
Mexico. The heart of the Gila is its unspoiled wilderness. Noted
environmentalist Aldo Leopold conceived the modern concept of
"wilderness" here. It was designated the world's first wilderness
area in 1924, and became the cornerstone of the National Wilderness
Preservation System when the Wilderness Act was signed into law in
1961. For more than thirty years, celebrated photographer Michael
P. Berman has explored the vast Gila, fascinated by the land and
how people use and value it. He has wandered deep into the forest
with his large-format camera, searching for the untrammeled,
scraggly, and complex ecosystems, allowing the Gila to reveal
itself. In this two-volume slip-cased edition, the untouched
specialness of the Gila is captured in Berman's photographs and
explored in fifteen essays by noted writers, natural historians,
and environmentalists.
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