{"product_id":"gila-libre-new-mexicos-last-wild-river-9780826340825","title":"Gila Libre!: New Mexico's Last Wild River","description":"\u003cp\u003eM. H. Salmon was told, \"a river named 'Gila' offered sporting fish. But this was no river. It was a stream, and standing on the bank I could see that if you picked out a riffle you could cross on foot without wetting your knees. Hardly even your ankles. I knew rivers--the St. Lawrence, the Seneca, the Oswego, the Salmon, the Black, and the Nueces. A real river could float a freighter, or at the least a barge, a yacht, a bass or drift boat. This Gila would ground a canoe.\" But he soon learned the river offered more than water and fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGila Libre! New Mexico's Last Wild River\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a geographic anomaly that includes roughly four million acres of the nation's first designated (1924) wilderness area, New Mexico's largest national forest, and the state's only undammed river. Visitors might spot a beaver and a coatimundi on the same day, an elk and a javelina on the same hillside, or catch a flathead catfish and a wild trout in the same pool. Apaches roamed along the Gila's shores, as did mountain men and outlaws.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGila Libre!\u003c\/i\u003e tells the river's story to date, extolling what is still a unique Southwest resource and speculating on its future, which includes the threatening proposal of a major state and federal water project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. H. Salmon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of New Mexico Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826340825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalmon, M. H.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - M. H. Salmon is publisher of High-Lonesome Books and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Catfish as Metaphor: A Fisherman's American Journey\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives near Silver City, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40876140167283,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e8483ad6-0d3e-464f-9cc0-b208ae02c98f.jpg?v=1688828651","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/gila-libre-new-mexicos-last-wild-river-9780826340825","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}