Web of Water: Life in Redwood Creek

By Maya Khosla

The flash of silver in green water; the deliberate stitch-stitching of a dragonfly laying eggs at the water's edge; the wonder of rocky, egg-filled nests releasing hundreds of coho salmon fry into a watery world of sun and shade; the rush and thrust of fresh water flowing into the salty Pacific -- this is part of life in Redwood Creek. For much of its length, the creek flows through Muir Woods National Monument, and the National Park Service monitors its health as one of the ways of understanding and protecting the environment. The text and illustrations in this book capture these efforts in a way that is both poetic and explanatory, and provides a well-grounded look at what happens in the riparian world and why it matters that we understand and guard it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883869277
• ISBN13: 9781883869274
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Golden Gate Natl Park Assn
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Getting Into Streams

Maya Khosla brings her scientist's training and poet's heart into a coast redwood forest stream in this gem of a book. Life in Redwood Creek is a balancing act between natural history and unadorned elegant writing. Who should read it? Any nature lover who is bored by the cloak of "objective" voice. Any lover of words who craves grounded meaning, solid natural-world accounting. And anyone who's stood in the earthy-smell shade of a California Redwood forest and felt at home. This book will bring you back there. I wait patiently for Khosla's next habitat.