In 1935 Aldo Leopold bought 80 acres of badly eroded farmland along a bend of the Wisconsin River. Leopold and his family began to manage and restore the land. Written with the knowledge of a scientist and the eye of a poet.

"When the Freeman family decided to restore a damaged creek in Washington's Olympic Peninsula--to transform it from a drainage ditch into a stream that could again nurture salmon-- they knew the task would be formidable and the rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott Freeman artfully blends his family's story with powerful universal lessons about how we can all live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land...