Singing Stone

Thomas Lowe Fleischner's articles and essays on topics pertinent to western ecology have been widely published in journals such as Conservation Biology and in books including The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management.

Acknowledgments Prologue: From the Oxbow 1. The Terrain of Delight Tales of Deep Time The Soul of Stone Unwarping and Downcutting The Work of a River 2. The Texture of Life The Grace of Animals The Green Gift Mapping Life How Snakes Kiss 3. Walking Upright Chipping Stone With Blade of Chert Here Comes Europe In the Promised Land "More Beauty Than I Can Bear" 4. Home on the Range? A Reluctant Path Toward Policy Resisting Change Meanwhile, Back at the Fence 5. Hungry for Fun The Concrete Curtain Forever Wild? The Governor in the Gym The Fun Boom Epilogue: The Evening Light Can Be Touched Taxonomy of Species Mentioned in Text Notes References Index

"[Fleischner's] book is not only informative and entertaining, but offers a lens through which we can examine the future of this region of Utah."-Orion "Fleischner's book on the Escalante Canyons may have been produced by a conservation biologist, but it is written from the gut.... baiting our appetites for wilderness-and wildness-by offering us tastes of an extraordinary place.... Scientists, aesthetes, and red rock desert rats alike, rejoice! Singing Stone is both history and science, as well as an intimate encounter with a wild desert land."-Wild Earth magazine "The reader is swiftly snapped to attention, engaged by clear, passionate writing. Fleischner guides readers on a celebration of this region's enigmas, while informing on a breadth of topics comprising the landscapes complexity."-Colorado Plateau Advocate, magazine of the Grand Canyon Trust "Reading this book is like taking a tour with an expert guide."-Idaho Librarian "This book is a good source of the history of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the changes it has seen over the centuries. It is structured not as a reference book, but as a guide to be read in a leisurely fashion, cover-to-cover. Fleischner does a wonderful job illustrating the delicate balance between nature and culture."-Utah Archaeology "Well-organized, beautifully written, and thoroughly documented."-CHOICE "Value-laden, sincere, and close to the ground."-The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona