Explore the endangered Colorado River from source to sea with conservation photographer Dave Showalter.
Available April 1
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“An informative examination and celebration of the beautiful
and endangered Colorado River and its importance for people and wildlife.”
With powerful visual storytelling, Living River illustrates how we can create a resilient watershed if we change our relationship with water.
countless creatures, including 40 million humans, depend upoN THE RIVER’S water. the futures of all are inextricably linked to the health of the river.
Starting at the headwaters in the Continental Divide, Showalter covers the wide range of issues facing the river and highlights places that demonstrate the land’s resilience, offering hope for the future. Throughout, he weaves in the stories of riverkeepers like Cynthia Wilson, who works to ensure universal access to clean water for her Diné community; Holly Richter, a conservation leader on the San Pedro River; and Tom Koerner, manager of the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge.
Living River IS PART OF a robust impact campaign that will inform and influence stakeholders in the development of a new river compact: one that embraces new technology, conserves and restores our western rivers for wildlife and recreation, and recalibrates water consumption within the Colorado River system.
This book will engage and inspire readers on an epic watershed journey that celebrates life, beauty, and both human and wild resilience.
About the Author
photographer and WRITEr Dave Showalter works throughout the ecosystems of the Intermountain West. PRIOR TO LIVING RIVER, HE PUBLISHED Sage Spirit: The American West at a Crossroads (Braided River), and Prairie Thunder: The Nature of Colorado’s Great Plains (Skyline Press).
As a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, Dave seeks to take readers on a journey to see ourselves as part of nature and the community of living things, engendering empathy, caring, and love of the natural world―the genesis of meaningful conservation.
Dave is based in Arvada, Colorado.
“The river is not dying and our narrative must change. She flows with the same pure purpose as before we arrived.”
Media & Press Inquiries
To request a press copy of this book, or set up an interview with Dave Showalter, please email Marissa Litak
marissal@mountaineersbooks.org.
For event inquires email Erika Lundahl
elundahl@braidedriver.org.
About Braided River
Braided River is a conservation media and literary arts nonprofit founded in 2007.
Because we know that images and narratives transport audiences to places they may never otherwise see, we use visually rich multimedia campaigns to support democratic and community-based solutions to complex conservation and environmental justice issues facing wild and sacred life and lands in Western North America.
Through award-winning books, websites, traveling photography exhibits, multi-media events, and films, Braided River crafts compelling stories of biodiversity, local and rural economies, Indigenous stewardship, and climate change that build connection and inspire civic engagement.
