{"product_id":"gila-libre-new-mexicos-last-wild-river-9780826340825","title":"Gila Libre!: New Mexico's Last Wild River","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): M. H. Salmon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of New Mexico Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of New Mexico Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - West - Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45114573652119,"sku":"9780826340825","price":1269.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780826340825.webp?v=1767642463","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gila-libre-new-mexicos-last-wild-river-9780826340825","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}