A Pensive Evening with Kurt Fausch
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025 6pm - 7pm
Location
Old Town Library
201 Peterson Street
Details
Join us in welcoming Kurt Fausch in celebration of his newest release, A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters! He will be hosting a talk at Old Town Library on April 29th, at 6:00 PM MST followed by a Q&A and book signing! Books can be purchased beforehand at our store front or at the event, but we ask you wait until the very end before asking for personalization. Books can be shipped to you from our online store too! (but not internationally)
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at events@oldfirehousebooks.com.
About the book:
In A Reverence for Rivers, Kurt Fausch draws on his experience as a stream ecologist, his interest in Indigenous cultures, and a thoughtful consideration of environmental ethics to explore human values surrounding freshwater ecosystems. Focusing on seven rivers across the globe—from the Salmon River in Oregon to the Sarufutsu River in Japan—he examines the growing ethical dilemmas threatening our rivers, including increasing demands for water, habitat fragmentation, overfishing, and deepening climate change.
How do we decide which rivers deserve legal protection? What is our right to water as humans? And how do we foster resilient rivers? Through a combination of scientific expertise and thoughtful observations of the natural world, Fausch translates the science of rivers into accessible language for readers and begins to address these questions. He weaves deep Indigenous histories throughout the book and includes personal visits to tribal lands to explore the traditional values held by several Indigenous groups. Fausch reminds us that our connection to rivers is personal and grounded in specific places, flowing from the stories we carry about our relationships with and responsibilities to these rivers.
In a final essay Fausch ponders Aldo Leopold’s statement that “nothing so important as an ethic is ever written,” but instead evolves in the minds of a thinking community. A Reverence for Rivers speaks to both the mind and the heart, offering perspectives so that we might begin to imagine and create an ethic for living with and caring for the running waters on which we rely for so much.
This event is produced by an outside organization and is unaffiliated with the Downtown Development Authority. The DDA website serves as a marketing outlet for events and promotions occurring inside the Downtown boundary. For questions regarding the event, please contact the event producer.
