Respected friends,
You will be inspired.
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman,vividly crafted by EDF writer Miriam Horn, brings to life the landscapes and wildlife along a 2,200-mile journey down the Mighty Mississippi River Basin -- from the front range of Montana’s Northern Rockies to the vast wheat fields of Kansas and down the river to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, you will meet five American conservation heroes working to reverse decades and centuries of environmental damage across America’s working lands and waterways. I am recommending Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman to all my friends and family and encourage you to put it at the top of your reading list. You won’t regret it.
You can preorder your copy today through AmazonSmile and select EDF to receive a portion of your purchase.
Echoing the story-telling spirit of Mark Twain, Woody Guthrie, and Aldo Leopold, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman describes the work of Dusty Crary, Justin Knopf, Merritt Lane, Sandy Nguyen, and Wayne Werner, modern-day conservation heroes from America’s heartland who have devoted their lives to preserving the natural systems that feed the world and make our modern lives possible.Through their lives and the challenges they have worked to overcome, readers are introduced to our own history and the story of generations of Americans who settled and worked the land and built communities. These are tales of struggle and survival and ultimately of renewal. Today’s generation of ranchers, farmers, and fishermen are innovating and reinventing how humans and nature coexist not only for today, but for all time, to help restore imperiled natural systems and preserve our cultures.
This is a wonderful, energizing read, as you can see in the excerpt below.
And by preordering your copy today, you can help bring these stories to more people. Book sale proceeds will go back to supporting EDF conservation efforts across these working lands and waterways.
I hope you’ll enjoy this book as thoroughly as I have. Happy reading.
Excerpt from Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: www.hrvatska.hr
It is just a few hundred miles from Wayne’s favorite fishing spots here to Havana, Cuba, or the tip of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. And just a bit farther still into the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans: distances readily crossed by sharks and manatees, or the larvae and eggs of grouper, snapper, parrotfish, damselfish, corals and shrimps. Here, the interdependencies traced by the Mississippi River flow past America’s borders to touch the rest of the world: what the U.S. does in its oceans and atmosphere will foretell those nations’ destiny, just as decisions they make will shape ours. These waters, in other words, that began in the mountains above Dusty Crary’s ranch, sustaining his cattle and roaming grizzlies and shimmering trout; these waters that traveled through Justin Knopf’s prairies, nourishing his parched soils and the wheat the world eats; these waters that filled the banks of the Mississippi, carrying on its writhing back America’s history and prosperity, settling into its rich, bountiful protective bayous to produce most of the fish we eat; these waters that knit together the fortunes of everyone in this book, everyone in the Mississippi watershed, everyone in the nation, extend further still, linking our fortunes to every microbe, grizzly bear, crustacean, weed, finfish and human on earth.
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