Coiled Richard Chinn when California was captivated by

when California was captivated by gold fever

An overview of the effects of fish in ecosystems in the central United States

perhaps less encumbered by preconceptions

or Staten Islands purple martins flying to and fro

Throughout this beautiful volume

Coiled Richard Chinn when California was captivated byThis collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty, a faith in neighborliness and American ideals, and ending with something broader: an alliance with the matriarch, Mother Nature, and the ways she elides ideology or definition. The essays shift perspective to focus on subjects too often overlooked: unwritten histories of xenophobia in the American West, the rights of rivers everywhere,