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**News and Events: March 2: Yellowstone to Yukon with Florian Schulz


Thu, February 2, 2006 10:16 AM

Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
Florian Schulz, photographer and author

Thursday, March 2, 2006
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Communications Facility Room 115, Western Washington University campus, Bellingham, WA

For most of the last decade, Florian Schulz, an award-winning photographer, has roamed deep into the wilderness of the northern Rockies, documenting one of the last intact mountain ecosystems in the world. The result of his devotion showcases the beauty of this land, and demonstrates the value in connecting vital wildlife habitats. His book, Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam, was published by The Mountaineers Books, in November 2005.

In his presentations, Florian shares wonderful stories, stunning images, and is passionate about his message: calling on North Americans to support a bold vision, which is the creation of “national corridors” to ensure a healthy ecosystem. His project and book promotes protection of parks and preserves, and their connection through wildlife migration corridors between Yellowstone and the Yukon. He documents the landscape, plants, birds, animals, and people of an ecosystem that is surprisingly intact along the spine of the Rocky Mountains.

Of Florian’s book, Wade Davis, author of Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures, writes: “In this beautiful book Florian Schulz, a child of Europe, lays down a challenge to all of us fortunate enough to have been born in the New World. “Y2Y” is no mere slogan. It is a phrase that invokes a spirit of place, a geographic artery of the heart that links the last vestiges of the western wilderness in a river of hope that runs from Montana to the Arctic, a corridor that will remain, thanks in part to Florian’s efforts, forever unburdened by the constraints of the modern. Florian has invoked the power of the wild to call for the preservation of these lands; his book is a sublime gift to all who would follow in his wake.”