EVERGLADES, home to staggering numbers of plants and animals, is to wetlands what Kilimanjaro is to mountains, the Amazon to rivers, or the Grand Canyon to cracks in the Earth. Like these iconic places, the Everglades is singular and sublime. Nothing remotely matches it. Once a continuous sheet of water covering the southern half of the Florida peninsula, less than half the original Everglades survived development. Now diminished and relatively desiccated, the Everglades persists, in the vivid words of author William deBuys, as a kind of inundated Kansas of water, grass, and muck, ending in the dense mangrove forests that edge the sea. Mary Peck grew up in Florida, barely an hour away from the Everglades but separated from the wetlands by air conditioning and pavement. Revisiting South Florida as an adult, she saw the Everglades for the first time. Her photographs combine with deBuys s account of the natural and political history of the Everglades to underline the tension between awe at the power of our experience in wild places today and the knowledge that those very places are being lost.

Everglades : Time's Discipline

Arts & Photography

Mary Peck

William deBuys

Photography & Video

Merlin Press

Book by Paul Horgan, William deBuys

The Heroic Triad: Essays in the Social Energies of Three Southwestern Cultures

History

Paul Horgan

Americas

Univ of New Mexico Pr

New Mexicoâ€™s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures — Hispanic and Anglo — meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor — shovel and axe, irony and humor — he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River of Traps also magically evokes the now-vanished world in which Romero tended flocks on frontier ranges and absorbed the values of a society untouched by cash or Anglo America. His memories and wisdom, shared without sentimentality, permeate this absorbing story of three men and the place that forever shaped their lives.

River of Traps: A Village Life

Alex Harris

In 2000 President Clinton signed into law the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, a visionary piece of legislation that transferred to the public domain a privately owned ranch in northern New Mexico. This book tells the natural and human history of the preserve, presents photographs of its splendor, and outlines the unique administrative experiment now underway to manage its public lands.

Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico's National Preserve

Don J., Usner

Museum of New Mexico Press

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