By Char Miller
The booklet investigates how we are living in this contested land --how we make our position in its oft-arid terrain; an surroundings that burns simply and floods frequently and defies our efforts to nestle in its foothills, canyons, and washes.
Exploring the demanding situations within the Southwest of studying the best way to stay inside of this complicated traditional method whereas greedy its old and environmental frameworks. knowing those framing units is necessary to achieving the political lodgings essential to construct a extra beneficiant society, a extra liveable panorama, and a extra simply neighborhood, no matter what our documented prestige or species.
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