PETER FRIEDERICI was raised in the suburbs of Chicago and now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he directs the Sustainable Communities program at Northern Arizona University. His writings on connections between people and place have been widely published in magazines and journals. His books include Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation and, with photographer Peter Goin, A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon beyond Climate Change.

The tattering of the great American wilderness is a source of lament, but this book offers eloquent witness to the beauty and complexity that live along the edges of urban life. Peter Friederici is an inspired guide to these half-wild places, combining heartful appreciation with scientific precision. His devotion to seeing and learning the significance of what he sees reveals once again the ancient lesson that the love of nature is one of the central organizing principles of human life.

PETER FRIEDERICI was raised in the suburbs of Chicago and now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he directs the Sustainable Communities program at Northern Arizona University. His writings on connections between people and place have been widely published in magazines and journals. His books include Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation and, with photographer Peter Goin, A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon beyond Climate Change.

The tattering of the great American wilderness is a source of lament, but this book offers eloquent witness to the beauty and complexity that live along the edges of urban life. Peter Friederici is an inspired guide to these half-wild places, combining heartful appreciation with scientific precision. His devotion to seeing and learning the significance of what he sees reveals once again the ancient lesson that the love of nature is one of the central organizing principles of human life.

PETER FRIEDERICI was raised in the suburbs of Chicago and now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he directs the Sustainable Communities program at Northern Arizona University. His writings on connections between people and place have been widely published in magazines and journals. His books include Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation and, with photographer Peter Goin, A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon beyond Climate Change.

The tattering of the great American wilderness is a source of lament, but this book offers eloquent witness to the beauty and complexity that live along the edges of urban life. Peter Friederici is an inspired guide to these half-wild places, combining heartful appreciation with scientific precision. His devotion to seeing and learning the significance of what he sees reveals once again the ancient lesson that the love of nature is one of the central organizing principles of human life.