"In this loving, fair-minded, and ultimately uplifting account, Charles Bergman trains our gaze away from the excesses of the past toward the future. Restoration really can happen if we just focus on the instrinsic wealth of the delta and the practical, real-world approaches that can bring it back. If restoration comes - and momentum is definitely building - much gratitude will rightly be directed toward this beautiful and compelling volume, which tells one of the American West's central stories bright and true."

--Charles Wilkinson, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Colorado and author of Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest

"Even though it deals with an age of cynicism and environmental collapse, Red Delta is a beautiful and informative and very loving book. It is rich in compassion and in natural and human lore, and in a measured yet never shrill outrage concerning past chicaneries and pending holocausts. Most importantly, Charles Bergman balances his tales of woe with an uplifting hope that encourages solutions and a positive future. His cautionary tale is rich in moments of reprieve and fabulous passages of discovery. His admiration for one of nature's more beleaguered redheaded stepchildren is catching. Through this book, and hopefully for centures into the future because of it, the Colorado River Delta lives."

--John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War

Red Delta is an Award Winning Book!

• 2003 Washington State Book Award
• 2003 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Book in Science and the Environment
• 2003 PEN USA Literary Award Finalist in Research Nonfiction