Balancing Water Restoring the Klamath Basin

"A book of unusual personality, charm, and force; it should greatly please a wide range of readers, including those sophisticated about conservation and land-use questions, and it should make even the hardest-line ranchers think some new thoughts about their future strategies."--Ernest Callenbach, author ofEcotopia "What a grand collaboration: Kittredge's words and the Blakes' images take us to the soul of the Klamath Country, at once a magnificent, battered, and resolute landscape. This finely-crafted blend of artistry, history, literature, public policy, and ecology tells the full and compelling story of one great western place and its people. In so doing, Balancing Water tells us a great deal about how, if we find the common will to work it right, we can shape the futures of other watersheds across the west."--Charles Wilkinson, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Colorado, and author ofFire on the PlateauandThe Eagle Bird "Coexistence has never been a popular principle in the American West, but as this book makes clear it has become indispensable for the survival of both endangered nature and endangered rural community. I was inspired by this brilliant collaboration of writer and photographers. They show a West that is changing for the good. They bring a message of hope that is compelling and timely." --Donald Worster, Hall Professor of American History, Univ of Kansas and author ofRivers of Empire: Water, ARidity, and the Growth of the American WestandNature's Economy: A History of Ecological IdeasBlake, Tupper Ansel is the author of 'Balancing Water Restoring the Klamath Basin' with ISBN 9780520213142 and ISBN 0520213149.