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Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
· 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.
For more information about the author, visit his web site at www.visionsofthewild.com/.
· 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.
For more information about the author, visit his web site at www.visionsofthewild.com/.
196 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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December 21, 2020
What beautiful, beautiful photographs! These are interspersed with a few essays on the Yellowstone to Yukon initiative and with short descriptions by the photographer about how he got certain shots. I like that he used film and makes clear he is showing what he saw as he saw it, rather than being a collection of manipulated Adobe-fied images (color enhanced, lighting as it should or could have been, the "best" of several photos blended together, etc.) . I'd rather have my nature the way I would see it if I was there - if I had the photographer's artistic eye and patience.
June 10, 2026
Beautiful photographs are the backbone of the book with moving essays on why we need to protect this vast ecosystem for its migratory and top predator species. The Yellowstone to Yukon project is a real effort, with First Nation, and US and Canada efforts to bring it about. A good overview with few particular details of managing the goal. Also read Rescuing the Planet by Tony Hiss for more detailed how-tos and history on corridor preservation.
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