num_pages: 196
description: · 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 initiativeA 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. For more information about the author, visit his web site at www.visionsofthewild.com/.
language: English
title: Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
titlecomplete: Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Mountaineers Books