WRRC Special Event: Living River: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado

Watch the recorded webinar

Join conservation photographer Dave Showalter for a unique in-person event—an epic visual journey through the vast Colorado River watershed. Showalter’s new book, Living River: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado (New April 2023) from Braided River paints a galvanizing picture of the living Colorado River and the challenges it faces, and will inspire people of all walks of life to cherish and protect the life, beauty, and resilience of this dynamic life force.

Featuring stunning photography and powerful essays, Living River captures breathtaking landscapes rich with wildlife from upper Colorado’s tributary Fraser River to the southwestern Gila and San Pedro Rivers.

Copies of Showalter’s Living River book will be available for purchase during the event. Living River is published by Braided River, a literary and conservation nonprofit, and an imprint of Mountaineers Books. Learn more at https://www.livingrivercolorado.org.

DAVE SHOWALTER

Conservation photographer and author Dave Showalter is focused on the American West. Showalter works throughout the ecosystems of the Intermountain West and published two books, Sage Spirit: The American West at a Crossroads (Braided River) and Prairie Thunder: The Nature of Colorado’s Great Plains (Skyline Press), prior to Living River: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado. He is a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers and a long-time contributor and partner of Platte Basin Time-lapse. Showalter works in partnership with numerous conservation groups, including Audubon Rockies, The Nature Conservancy, and Trout Unlimited Headwaters. With Living River and conservation story-telling, he seeks to take readers on a journey to see themselves as part of nature and the community of living things, engendering empathy, caring, and love of the natural world—the genesis of meaningful conservation. Showalter is based in Arvada, Colorado.