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Watershed Redemption, Diana Hartel's sweeping, richly researched account conjures up a Bierstadt landscape. With elegant, crystal-clear prose, she weaves a dire yet hopeful tapestry of ecological ignorance, genocide, and tenacious activism. There is something for everyone--environmentalist, policy-maker, ethnologist, historian, biologist, epidemiologist, artist--in this powerful piece of advocacy. --Jonathan Balcombe, best-selling nature writer and ethologist

About the Author

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Diana Hartel holds a Columbia University doctorate in epidemiology, with an emphasis on infectious disease and chronic diseases of the environment. She has held faculty positions at Columbia and Einstein College of Medicine, as well as a specialist/expert position at the National Institutes of Health in which she chaired inter-agency projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to this book, she published widely in biomedical journals and technical books. After the NIH, she created two nonprofit organizations, one in NY and on in Oregon, focused on environmental education.

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Winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature: Judge Jonathan Balcombe writes, "Watershed Redemption, Diana Hartel's sweeping, richly researched account conjures up a Bierstadt landscape. With elegant, crystal-clear prose, she weaves a dire yet hopeful tapestry of ecological ignorance, genocide, and tenacious activism. There is something for everyone -- environmentalist, policy-maker, ethnologist, historian, biologist, epidemiologist, artist --in this powerful piece of advocacy.

Review in The Hopper: http://www.hoppermag.org/watershed-redemption: Through her words and her own example and through the lives she profiles, Hartel provides those who live in what Aldo Leopold calls “a world of wounds” with a guide on how to grieve for what has been lost or is nearly lost, and how to wisely fight and celebrate what remains and what can be restored and renewed. “We proceed through our love of the land and water,” she writes, “pained by its damage, testing the ground, correcting course with what knowledge we gain.”This generation of a new earth, as Hartel illustrates throughout the book, requires a marriage of science, intuition, respect, empathy, love, and action, with the awareness that all life on earth is profoundly, inextricably, and beautifully interconnected: