Wings Over Water
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Product Details
Publisher: Flashpoint
Release Date: April 5, 2022
Formats: Hardcover, Ebook
ISBN: HC: 978-1-954854-55-0; EB: 978-1-954854-56-7
Page Count: 128
The Vital Magic of North America’s Prairie Wetlands
Wings For Wetlands LLC, foreword by Michael Keaton
A beautiful, photo-rich companion book to the internationally distributed IMAX film of the same name, Wings Over Water celebrates the prairie wetlands of North America and the birds that live and breed in this critical habitat.
Covering 300,000 square miles stretching from Canada through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, the prairie wetlands are one of Earth’s most important, yet little-known, ecosystems. More than half of all North American migratory waterfowl and 96 species of songbirds breed and nest there, and more than 60 percent of the continent’s ducks are hatched there. Wings Over Water immerses readers in this awe-inspiring, essential region, using more than 300 breathtaking photos and inspiring essays from some of North America’s foremost conservationists to shine a spotlight on these critical breeding grounds and the need to protect them.
Wings Over Water is a joint venture of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, which works to secure the future of hunting, fishing, and land management; Ducks Unlimited Inc., Wetlands America Trust, and Ducks Unlimited Canada, the world’s largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to conserving North America’s disappearing wetland and waterfowl habitats; and the National Audubon Society, the world’s oldest nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to bird conservation.
About the Authors
Academy Award–nominated actor Michael Keaton, the narrator of Wings Over Water, is a passionate conservationist dedicated to the preservation of habitats that sustain wildlife in the Great Plains and beyond.
Chris Dorsey is a renowned sportsman and host of Great American Country’s series Ultimate Sportsman’s Lodge Colorado. Chris is the president and founding partner of Orion Multimedia, the world’s largest producer of outdoor adventure television programming.
John Cooper served 23 years as a Special Agent of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service prior to serving 12 years as cabinet secretary of the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) under two governors. After he retired, he was Gov. Rounds’ senior policy advisor on Missouri River issues. Cooper was also a senior policy advisor to the national Bipartisan Policy Center on climate change and wildlife management issues. He previously chaired the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission.
Charles S. Potter, Jr. is president and CEO of the McGraw Center for Conservation Leadership and of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. He is well known throughout the United States for his leadership in the conservation arena. Charlie has also successfully started and operated businesses in the outdoor recreation industry and has been engaged in the world of agriculture investing to create agriculture properties that benefit conservation and natural resource interests.
T. Edward Nickens, columnist and editor-at-large for Field & Stream, is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He also serves as a contributing editor for Garden & Gun, Ducks Unlimited, and Audubon. His monthly column for Our State magazine, Ramblin’ Man, is in its sixth year of publication. He lives and writes in Raleigh and Morehead City, North Carolina.
Glenn Olson leads Audubon’s efforts to conserve birds and their habitats along the four flyways, catalyzing work across Audubon’s national network of state programs, Centers and Chapters, and Important Bird Areas as well as with our BirdLife International partners throughout the Western Hemisphere. He serves on North American Wetlands Conservation Act Council (NAWCA) and the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Advisory Council.
Visit the IMAX film’s website at wingsoverwaterfilm.com
Reviews
“What a wonderful companion book to the Wings Over Water IMAX film! The photographs are absolutely stunning, of course, but the text is just as compelling. The behind-the-scenes filming information is interesting, but just as fascinating are the articles on conservation, history, and geography.” —Amazon review