The USFWS Library invites you to join us for our upcoming online wild read book discussion on Thursday, May 18 at 3 PM EST. Please register in advance. This spring for America’s Wild Read, the USFWS Library is featuring an environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by award-winning author, Terry Tempest Williams. Being a Utah native, Terry grew up knowing Great Salt Lake, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, and the thousands of birds that migrate through and became her refuge and sanctuary. Both the landscape of her childhood and the landscape of her family, the bedrocks of her life, are subjected to change in this work first published in 1992. The author contemplates the threats facing Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, altered by rising levels of the Great Salt Lake and her journey of loss as her mother battles ovarian cancer.
The Wild Read book club meetings are a place where the readers should come ready to reflect on the reading, answer discussion questions, and enjoy some time together through a conversation on conservation literature. We hope you join us and share your thoughts and perspectives from the reading.