Travels Up the Creek
A Biologist’s Search for a Paddle
- Publisher
- RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Subjects
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology, Essays
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This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 Level AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This Moderate book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of content, page-list, landmark, reading order, Structural Navigation and Index, Semantic structure. Blank pages have been removed from this EPUB.
EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.0 AA
Short alternative textual descriptions
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WCAG level AA
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771607148
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
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Description
A new collection of essays that will engage readers, inspire change, raise awareness, nurture empathy, and reshape perspectives on environmental stewardship towards a sustainable future.
Travels Up the Creek intricately crafts stories of environmental awakening, drawing inspiration from Aldo Leopold, Stan Rowe, Wendell Berry, and Rachel Carson. This engaging journey confronts ecological challenges, advocating a shift in perspective and encouraging readers to embrace curiosity and scrutiny in contemplating the significance of our natural landscape. Urging environmental stewardship rooted in science, the book challenges groupthink, offering knowledge, motivation, and agency to those dedicated to creating a better world.
Exploring human-nature connections and stark realities, Lorne Fitch's new book underscores empathy, prompting readers to safeguard imperiled species and threatened places. A call to action in a world grappling with seemingly insurmountable issues, the book inspires change through education and a touch of righteous anger. A compelling guide for Earth stewards, it promises to contribute to a sustainable future for all.
About the author
Lorne Fitch has been a biologist for over 50 years. He has criss-crossed the province, learned the landscape, investigated fish and wildlife populations, and engaged with ranchers, farmers, industry, and bureaucrats over conservation. His insights are the result of much scar tissue. Lorne is a professional biologist, a retired provincial fish and wildlife scientist, and a former adjunct professor at the University of Calgary. He is also the co-founder of the riparian stewardship initiative called Cows and Fish. For his work on conservation he has been part of three Alberta Emerald awards, an Alberta Order of the Bighorn Award, and a Canadian Environmental Gold Award, with additional recognition from the Wildlife Society, the Society for Range Management, the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the Alberta Wilderness Association. His first book with RMB was Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World. Lorne lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.