Seize Heart Waters: Sources Of The Bow River Constructed By Kevin Van Tighem EBook

too much to take in all at once, In the end I thoroughly enjoyed this read, Excellent photographs perfectly placed in the text, Normally a book as beautiful as this one is handicapped by prose so vacuous that it would dislodge the toupee from an unsuspecting reader.


This is not the case for Heart Waters it is a magnificent book,

It is an effective mixture of lilting prose, science, and a balanced discussion around competing land uses and social values.
As such, the book would have universal appeal to anyone who is connected to the environment,



For me, it is also about a region that I adore, which is probably why I am gushing a bit here.
For more than a century the foothills and Front Range mountains of western Alberta have been recognized as vital to the future water supply for Canadas prairies.
Virtually all the water that sustains communities, ecosystems and the economy of prairie Canada comes from this narrow strip of land along the Continental Divide.
For all its importance, however, water management decisions have ignored the lands health and focused almost exclusively on building dams.
The result, as the author points out, is that the Bow Rivers annual flows have decreased by more than a tenth, even while spring floods become more frequent and destructive.
The solutions to prairie Canadas water challenges lie in healing the wounded landscapes of our headwaters, .