Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West

Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West

Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West

Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West

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Overview

Thinking Like a Watershed points our understanding of our relationship to the land in new directions. It is shaped by the bioregional visions of the great explorer John Wesley Powell, who articulated the notion that the arid American West should be seen as a mosaic of watersheds, and the pioneering ecologist Aldo Leopold, who put forward the concept of bringing conscience to bear within the realm of "the land ethic."

Produced in conjunction with the documentary radio series entitled Watersheds as Commons, this book comprises essays and interviews from a diverse group of southwesterners including members of Tewa, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. Their varied cultural perspectives are shaped by consciousness and resilience through having successfully endured the aridity and harshness of southwestern environments over time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826352330
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 10/15/2012
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jack Loeffler is an aural historian, radio producer, writer, and musician. Among his earlier books are Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey and La Música de los Viejitos. He lives in Santa Fe.



Celestia Loeffler, Jack’s daughter, is a writer and producer in Durango, Colorado. Both are board members of Lore of the Land, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing and preserving the traditional communities of the American Southwest.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Thinking Like a Watershed: Introduction Jack Loeffler 1

Pueblo Watersheds: Places, Cycles, and Life Rina Smentzell 27

Connected By Earth: Metaphors from Hopi Tutskwa Lyle Balenquab 45

"Don't You Let that Deal go Down": Navajo Water Rights and the Black Mesa Struggle Sonia Dickey 67

Politics of the Colorado River with Stewart Udall Jack Loeffler 91

Applying Navajo Tradition to the Modern World Roy Kady 105

Tohono O'odham Culture: Embracing Traditional Wisdom Camillus Lopez 133

La Cuenca Y La Querencia: The Watershed and the Sense of Place in the Merced and Acequia Landscape Juan Estevan Arellano 151

Ranching and the Practice of Watershed Conservation Sid goodloe 193

Roots of Hunger: The Quest for a Sustainable Food Culture Celestia Loeffler 215

Restorying the Land Gary Paul Nabban 235

Navigating the Rapids of the Future William de Buys 252

Conclusion Jack Loeffler 259

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