Yampa Yearnings

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yampa Yearnings</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> by award-winning author Eugene Buchanan heralds northwest Colorado's Yampa River the last remaining free-flowing tributary to the Colorado River Basin that still retains its natural hydrograph. As with David James Duncan's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My Story as Told by Water</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the book promises to increase awareness for readers' backyard rivers through Buchanan's 30-year relationship with his beloved Yampa in Steamboat Springs. From its headwaters a flycast from the birthplace of the country's wilderness movement to its confluence with the Green 250 miles later in Dinosaur National Monument the river supports agriculture municipalities a world-class ski resort industry endangered fish unique riparian zones water rights recreation and more. The author of five books (</span><u style=color: rgba(128 0 128 1)>www.eugenebuchanan.com</u><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) Buchanan whose work has appeared in the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times Men's Journal Outside National Geographic Adventure </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and other publications addresses all this and more instilling a sense of waterway preservation in everyone who turns its pages. </span></p>