Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau by Lenhart, Lawrence
Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau by Lenhart, Lawrence

Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau

Twice declared extinct, North America's most endangered mammal species, the black-footed ferret (BFF), is making a comeback...
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Author: Lawrence Lenhart
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Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau by Lenhart, Lawrence

Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau

CHF 36.01
Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau by Lenhart, Lawrence

Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau

CHF 36.01
Author: Lawrence Lenhart
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Twice declared extinct, North America's most endangered mammal species, the black-footed ferret (BFF), is making a comeback thanks to an evolving conservation regimen at more than thirty reintroduction sites across the continent. Lawrence Lenhart lingers at one such site in his proverbial backyard, the Aubrey Valley in northern Arizona. He clocks hundreds of hours behind the wheel, rolling over ranch ruts as he shines a spotlight over dusky sage steppe in the hopes of catching a fleck of emerald eyeshine.

The beguiling weasel at the center of this book is more than a charismatic minifauna; it is the covert ambassador of a critical ecosystem that has dwindled to 1 percent of its former size. In a landscape menaced by habitat fragmentation, bacterial plague, settler colonialism, and soil death, a ferret must be resilient. Lenhart investigates the human efforts to sustain the species through monitoring, vaccination, captive breeding, and even cloning.

Lenhart balances this lens of environmental witness with personal essaying that captures the parallel story of his wife's pregnancy as he realizes the ferret's conservation story is dramatically synchronized with her trimesters. In preparing to raise a child in the Anthropocene, Lenhart takes stock of his own ecosystem and finds something is amiss. Through an ethic of "deeper ecology," Lenhart must hone his ecological interest in the black-footed ferret to assure it isn't overshadowed by his own paternal interests.

Author: Lawrence Lenhart
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 06/15/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780820364124

About the Author
LAWRENCE LENHART is associate chair and associate professor of English at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage and Of No Ground: Small Island/Big Ocean Contingencies. His prose has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre, Greensboro Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and Western Humanities Review. He is editor in chief of Carbon Copy, reviews editor of DIAGRAM, and president of the Northern Arizona Book Festival. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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