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Incorporating seven years of photography and research, Krista Schlyer portrays life along the Anacostia River, a Washington, DC, waterway rich in history and biodiversity that has nonetheless lingered for years in obscurity and neglect in our nation's capital. River of Redemption offers an experience of the river that reveals its eons of natural history, centuries of destruction, and decades of restoration efforts. The story of the Anacostia echoes the story of rivers across America. Inspired by Aldo Leopold's classic book, A Sand County Almanac, Krista Schlyer evokes a consciousness of time and place, taking readers through the seasons in the watershed as well as through the river's complex history and ecology. As with rivers nationwide, the ways we've changed the Anacostia affect the people and wildlife that inhabit its shores, from the headwaters in Maryland, past its confluence with the Potomac River, and ultimately to the Chesapeake Bay. Centuries of abuse at the hands of people who have altered the landscape and mistreated the waterway have transformed it into a polluted, toxic soup unfit for swimming or fishing. The forgotten river is both a reminder of the worst humanity can do to the natural landscape and a wellspring of memory that offers a roadmap back to health and well-being for watershed residents, human and non-human alike. Blending stunning photography with informative and poignant text, River of Redemption offers the opportunity to reinvent our role in urban ecology and to redeem our relationship with this national river and watersheds nationwide.
The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall's effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall's effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, "Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" helps readers understand all that is at stake. As Krista Schlyer explains, the remoteness of this region from
most US citizens' lives, coupled with the news media's focus on
illegal immigration and drug violence, has left many with an
incomplete picture. As she reminds us, this largely isolated
natural area, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of
Mexico, hosts a number of rare ecosystems: Arizona's last
free-flowing river, the San Pedro; the grasslands of New Mexico,
some of the last undeveloped prairies on the continent; the single
most diverse birding area in the US, located along the lower Rio
Grande River in Texas; and habitat and migration corridors for some
of both nations' most imperiled species.?In documenting the changes
to the ecosystems and human communities along the border while the
wall was being built, Schlyer realized that the impacts of
immigration policy on wildlife, on landowners, and on border towns
were not fully understood by either policy makers or the general
public. The wall not only has disrupted the ancestral routes of
wildlife; it has also rerouted human traffic through the most
pristine and sensitive of wildlands, causing additional
destruction, conflict, and death--without solving the original
problem.
Approximately 250 wild whooping cranes nest in northern Canada and
winter in south Texas, flying 2,500 miles annually between these
two distinct havens: the coastal marshes of the Gulf of Mexico and
the boreal wilderness on the border of Alberta and the Northwest
Territories. Through twists of good fortune, each of these terminal
migratory places is protected from human encroachment--by a U.S.
national wildlife refuge on the one hand and a Canadian national
park on the other. This last remaining natural flock of the
species, its numbers small but slowly increasing, has thus become
known by the names of its sanctuaries: Aransas-Wood Buffalo. See the recent article in "National Geographic"here.
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