Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
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Book Description
"The great Yellowstone to Yukon corridor is a dream worthy of the North American peoples. The superb photographs by Florian Schulz and authoritative essays by leading naturalists that accompany them give substance to that dream and added hope that it can be realized."-Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
The dream is a connected eco-system through North America's Wild Heart-see what this means and learn why it is important. ·200 full-color scenes of a landscape and its wild inhabitants by an award-winning photographer ·Original essays by noted writers, biologists, and conservationists including David Suzuki, David Quammen, Rick Bass, Ted Kerasote, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ·Illustrates the principles-and the viability-of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) conservation initiative
A grizzly bear emerges, one small detail in an immense vista of field and mountains and sky. A shoreline, still and empty but for the telltale tracks of passing wildlife. Golden peaks that roll to the horizon, starkly beautiful in the morning light. This kind of space, of solitude-of simple wildness-still exists in North America, outside the boundaries of any park. Photographer Florian Schulz documents the landscape, plants, animals, and people of an eco-system that is surprisingly intact up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains. There is still time to make a difference: to direct the path of encroaching development and establish connections between the national and provincial parks on this course.
Essay contributors tell of their travels through the region and their experience of the land. They explain the need for Y2Y, based on new findings that reveal isolated nature sanctuaries to be a recipe for extinction. They set the Y2Y conservation program in context: a grand vision grounded on science; a practical plan that provides for economic as well as environmental sustainability; a blueprint designating critical wildlife habitat. Environmental conservation does not mean that humans must be excluded from the land, but we must act thoughtfully.
About the Author
FLORIAN SCHULZ is a wildlife photographer whose work has been honored in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and by the Nature's Best International Photography Awards. A German native obsessed by Yellowstone since childhood, Schulz has spent most of the last decade documenting the Yellowstone to Yukon country.
Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam,Florian Schulz,Mountaineers Books,0898869897,Biodiversity,Biodiversity conservation,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Essays,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals,Yellowstone National Park Region,Yukon Territory
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