Todd Wilkinson – författare

Entrepreneur and media mogul Ted Turner has commanded global attention for his dramatic personality, his founding of CNN, his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his company's merger with Time Warner. But his green resume has gone largely ignored, even while his role as a pioneering eco-capitalist means more to Turner than any other aspect of his legacy. He currently owns more than two million acres of private land (more than any other individual in America), and his bison herd exceeds 50,000 head, the largest in history. He donated $1 billion to help save the UN, and has recorded dozens of other firsts with regard to wildlife conservation, fighting nukes, and assisting the poor. He calls global warming the most dire threat facing humanity, and says that the tycoons of the future will be minted in the development of green, alternative renewable energy. Last Stand goes behind the scenes into Turner's private life, exploring the man's accomplishments and his motivations, showing the world a fascinating and flawed, fully three-dimensional character. From barnstorming the country with T. Boone Pickens on behalf of green energy to a pivotal night when he considered suicide, Turner is not the man the public believes him to be. Through Turner's eyes, the reader is asked to consider another way of thinking about the environment, our obligations to help others in need, and the grave challenges threatening the survival of civilization.

Ted Turner was for many years the largest private property owner in America, and known most notably for his establishment of bison herds on several large ranches in five western states. His holdings in the United States and the Patagonia region of Argentina represent refuges of biodiversity. This is a never-before-seen glimpse into Ted Turner s two million acres, a volume of land equal to the size of Yellowstone National Park. The Turner family land holdings are spread across nearly two dozen properties, some that climb to snow-covered mountains in the Northern Rockies, others where wild desert sheep dwell and dodge stalking cougars, and still others lapped by ocean tides and offering nesting places for imperilled sea turtles crawling ashore after surviving incredible journeys. In between that dramatic topographical range are expanses of American prairie and glacial valleys where Turner has undertaken his unprecedented mission to reconnect iconic native bison with the landscapes where they once flourished. With his own private bison herd numbering around 50,000, the largest in the world, Turner has demonstrated that what is ecologically good for bison enhances the health of soil, grasses, and habitat sustaining hundreds of other native species. Rhett Turner explores his father s devotion to leaving nature in better shape than he found it by taking readers to the diverse world of Turner properties. By doing so, he illustrates how monumental conservation can be brought to scale on private land in ways that also deliver dividends for public land, as well as wildlife recovery tying future generations to the promise of America s greatest legacy our wild lands. With a foreword by Jimmy Carter, this book is an inspiring call to action to reflect on how we all can strive to leave our land a little better a little wilder than how we found it.

An intimate view into the lives of this celebrated bear family that draws thousands to Yellowstone each year hoping for even a glimpse. The most famous population of grizzly bears in the world lives in the ecosystem that encompasses Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, and the most visible queen of all has been Jackson Hole Grizzly 399. During her long life, with cubs at her side, she has navigated the intersection between wilderness and people. Her harrowing journey has changed the way tens of millions of people around the globe think of both grizzlies and conservation. Over the past two decades, legendary nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen has been tracking Grizzly 399 and her cubs, amassing more than one million photos along the way. Together with conservation writer Todd Wilkinson, Mangelsen returns with a new, long-awaited volume that brings the importance of 399 and the plight of American grizzlies into focus in a way that will move your heart and inspire you to join the army of advocates who want to keep this region of public lands, which belongs to all of us, forever wild.

No comprehensive book of George Carlson s work has ever before been published, making this magnificent volume an incomparable addition to the libraries of collectors and students of Western art and American landscape painting. Likened to the French and American Impressionists, who turned to nature s beauty for relief from the industrialised world, Carlson is regarded as one of the most important American artists of his generation. His Prix de West triumphs have come in two different mediums: sculpture and, more recently, landscape painting. Recognised as one of America s greatest bronze sculptors, Carlson is also a master at using pastels and oils. Carlson s tactile, textured landscape paintings are viewed as bold touchstones for a new movement taking hold in Western art and it is inspiring new generations of Realists and Impressionists. With nature as his muse, Carlson is an American treasure, and this book demonstrates how and why he is making his own impactful contribution to the canon of art history.