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SUMMARY:RIWPS Member Event: Virtual Book Discussion - Crossings
DESCRIPTION: Virtual Book Discussion (for RIWPS members only)\nBook: Crossings\n\nDiscussion date: Sunday 16 March\, 3:00 to 4:00\n\n\n\n\nWhile the days are still short and the temperatures near freezing\, let’s read and then gather around our screens to discuss Ben Goldfarb’s book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Goldfarb is an engaging\, prize-winning writer. His topic may seem to stray from RIWPS’ core interests\, but we’ve done this before to good effect. Crossings is an eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads\, from the award-winning author of Eager. We read that book in 2021.\n\n \n\nSynopsis:\n \nSome 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth\, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us\, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings\, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone\, but as the new science of road ecology shows\, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. Creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; invasive plants hitch rides in tire treads; road salt contaminates lakes and rivers; and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat. \n Yet road ecologists are also seeking to blunt the destruction through innovative solutions. Goldfarb meets with conservationists building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads\, engineers deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests\, animal rehabbers caring for Tasmania’s car-orphaned wallabies\, and community organizers working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities.\n  \nToday\, as our planet’s road network continues to grow exponentially\, the science of road ecology has become increasingly vital. Written with passion and curiosity\, Crossings is a sweeping\, spirited\, and timely investigation into how humans have altered the natural world―and how we can create a better future for all living beings. 20 illustrations \n\n \n\nAwards:\n\n\nGrand Prize Winner of the 2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition\nWinner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism\nFinalist for several other awards including the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award\, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction\, and the Colorado Book Award.\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Science News\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and Kirkus Reviews\n\n\nOSLS has 14 print copies\, an eBook and a Kindle; Amazon $19.99\, audio CD + used starting at $15.99; $9.20 on Kindle. If you listen to it as an audio book\, it will take 12 hours to hear the whole tale.\nParticipation in this event is a benefit of membership.  Not sure you membership is current?  Contact office@riwps.org \nRegistration required. Click here to register. \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/book-discussion-crossings/
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Brave the Wild River  (Members Only)
DESCRIPTION:Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon \nby Melissa Sevigny (W.W. Norton Press) \nJoin fellow RIWPS members on March 3 from 2 to 4 pm to discuss Brave the Wild River\, the beautifully written adventure story of two women botanists running the untamed Colorado River.  Let’s share our thoughts.  Consider choosing a couple of quotes or passages that resonated with you.  \nElzada Clover was a cacti-loving native of the Southwest and a faculty member at University of Michigan where she taught Lois Jotter\, a ready-for-adventure undergrad. In the summer of 1938\, the two women planned a trip down the Colorado. No one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon\, and they were determined to be the first. But the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world and they and their small crew of an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader\, a zoologist\, and two amateur boatmen were thought to be foolhardy. \n Word of the trip spread through the national press and the nation came alive with shock\, censure\, and negative attitudes\, especially with the idea of two women alone with three men!  \nUsing the women’s journals\, the scientist journalist Sevigny recounts their daring forty-three-day journey down the river\, meticulously cataloging the plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon’s secret nooks and crannies. But Sevigny also includes bits of human history and culture\, geography\, politics and poetic descriptions of the rocky gorge.  \nThe satisfying ending wraps up the aftermath of the botanists’ results\, their lives and an amazing opportunity for Jotter as an old woman. Today scientists use Clover and Jotter’s journals and plant lists to learn and compare today’s flora with what Clover and Jetter found in 1938. \n• Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography  • A Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023  • A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • \nCopies available in the Ocean State Library system and online. \nThis event is for RIWPS members.  Not a member?  JOIN NOW.  Not sure if your membership is current?  Contact office@RIWPS.org \nTo participate register below  (Directions to access this discussion will be sent to those who register closer to March 3).  As always\, let us know if you need to cancel your registration. office@riwps.org
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