About this item
Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about it. Author and narrator Heather Shumaker shares the remarkable untold stories behind protecting land and creating new nature preserves. Written in a compelling narrative style, the book is intended in part as a case study for landscape-level conservation and documents the challenges of integrating economic livelihoods into conservation and what it really means to "preserve" land over time. This is the story of a small band of determined townspeople and how far they went to save beloved land and endangered species from the grip of a powerful corporation.
About the Author
Heather Shumaker is a mother and journalist whose book "It's Okay not to Share: and other renegade rules for raising competent and compassionate kids" shares unconventional parenting wisdom. She has written for magazines and radio including "Parenting" and "Organic Gardening," and currently lives in northern Michigan where she raises chickens.
