Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Effective Conservation by Ignacio Jiménez.

Rick Ridgeway, Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map. Ventura, CA:

By John Miles The bear literature is rich, but with threats to bears proliferating

Jonathan Franklin, A Wild Idea, New York: HarperOne, 2021. Reviewed by John Miles, Rewilding

Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. Princeton: Princeton

Douglas Chadwick, Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might

David Roberts, The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness.

Michael A. Soukup and Gary E. Machlis, American Covenant: National Parks, Their Promise,

Reviewed by John Miles Eric Wagner, After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount

Kim Heacox, The Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska. Gilford, CT: Lyons