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WapsiBanks00
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I'll keep an eye out for this book, sounds exciting. That would have been critical research as those dams were being built. Plus, floating the Colorado - not sure I'd have the guts to do it today. I'm glad there aren't any Class V rapids in BWCA/Quetico.
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chessie
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WapsiBanks00: "I'll keep an eye out for this book, sounds exciting. That would have been critical research as those dams were being built. Plus, floating the Colorado - not sure I'd have the guts to do it today. I'm glad there aren't any Class V rapids in BWCA/Quetico."
I burned through it, even if you aren't a botany geek - it's a great historical book. And, one of the botanist accompanied a trip much later, when she was 80 y.o. ("The Old Timers Trip") because she could, in real time, observe the changes post Glen Canyon Dam.
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h20
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Thanks for the tip. I'll see if my library can get it for me. Update...it's on hold.
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dogwoodgirl
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just put it on hold myself...sounds great!
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chessie
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A great read, especially if you've some interest in the Grand Canyon and botany.
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, by Melissa Sevigny, 2023.
The 2 botanists, along with 4 men, boated the Colorado River in 1938.
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