First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100

•Released during the 100th anniversary year of the Gila Wilderness, the first designated wilderness area in the United States.

•The Gila Wilderness is on a scale with Yellowstone or Yosemite in terms of its vast untrammeled wildness—and as extinction and climate change threaten our planet, nowhere are the effects more pronounced than in the American Southwest. This anthology will inspire both imaginations and action to protect the sensitive beauty of the Gila.

•Hightower Allen is former features editor of Outside magazine, where her work received the National Magazine Award for Excellence, and has published book reviews in the New York Times and Washington Post.

•Notable contributors to this anthology include Beto O’Rourke, Michael P. Berman, Philip Connors, Martha Schumann Cooper, Martin Heinrich, Pam Houston, Priyanka Kumar, Aldo Leopold, Laura Paskus, Sharman Apt Russell, Jakob Sedig, Leeanna T. Torres, Jonathan K. Tsosie, and JJ Amaworo Wilson.

© 2022 Torrey House Press (Ebook): 9781948814560

Release date

Ebook: 17 May 2022