Gila Libre!

Kirjan Gila Libre! (2008) on kirjoittanut M.H. Salmon. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut University of New Mexico Press. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 144 sivua ja se on nidottu.

M. 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. ""Gila Libre! New Mexico's Last Wild River"" 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. ""Gila Libre! "" 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.