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Gila Libre!: New Mexico’s Last Wild River

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M. H. Salmon was once told, “a river named ‘Gila’ offered sporting fish. But this was once no river. It was once a stream, and standing at the bank I could see that when you picked out a riffle you must cross on foot without wetting your knees. Hardly even your ankles. I knew rivers–the St. Lawrence, the Seneca, the Oswego, the Salmon, the Black, and the Nueces. A real river could glide a freighter, or as a minimum a barge, a yacht, a bass or flow boat. This Gila would ground a canoe.” But he soon learned the river offered more than water and fish.

Gila Libre! New Mexico’s Last Wild River is the story of a geographic anomaly that includes kind of four million acres of the nation’s first designated (1924) wilderness area, New Mexico’s largest national forest, and the state’s only undammed river. Visitors might spot a beaver and a coatimundi at the same day, an elk and a javelina at the same hillside, or catch a flathead catfish and a wild trout in the same pool. Apaches roamed along the Gila’s shores, as did mountain men and outlaws.

Gila Libre! tells the river’s story to this point, extolling what is still a unique Southwest resource and speculating on its future, which includes the threatening proposal of a tremendous state and federal water project.

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