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"The Endangered Species Act is an act of love that asks for our engagement, each in our own way with the gifts that are ours in the places we call home. Learn their names. Speak their names. Remember their names. Act." -- Terry Tempest Williams, from the Introduction In 1973, the United States Congress came together with bipartisan support to create and pass a bold and visionary act -- one of protection, preservation, and promise. For the past fifty years, this promise, the Endangered Species Act, has ensured that the most threatened and vulnerable species and their habitats are protected. From the stellar sea lion to the ivory-billed woodpecker, from the steelhead trout to the red wolf -- this landmark act has worked to preserve the wild beauty that surrounds and sustains us.
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Allen Crawford is an artist, illustrator, designer, and writer. He and his wife Susan founded the design and illustration studio Plankton Art Co. in 1996. Their studio's most notable project to date is the collection of 400 species identification illustrations that are on permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life in New York.Allen's latest book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself (Tin House Books) is an illustrated, hand-lettered, 256-page edition of Walt Whitman's epic poem. It's scheduled for release on May 13, 2014.Under the pseudonym "Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy" Allen wrote, designed, and illustrated The Affected Provincial's Companion, Volume One (Bloomsbury 2006), which was soon optioned for film by Johnny Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil.In October 2013, Metrolit Verlag in Berlin published a German edition of The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. One.Allen has appeared in The New York Times, Interview, Orion, Frieze, Vice, Tin House, and Art in America.
