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Academy Award-nominated documentary storyteller and playwright Stephen Most portrays the Klamath Basin and reveals the urgency for all the communities within the basin to find common ground

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Headwaters

1. Land of Waters

2. Manifest Destiny

3. Theater of War

4. Reclaiming the Land

Part Two. The Mouth of the Klamath

5. Rekwoi

6. Between Two Worlds

7. The Inland Whale

8. Salmon War Stories

9. Water, Fish, and Politics

Part Three. Upriver

10. The Dam and the Weir

11. Coyote's Journey

12. The Road Not Taken

13. Smokey, Bigfoot, and the Owl

14. Beneath the Surface

15. The State of Jefferson

Part Four. Fixing the World

16. Land, Water, and Livelihood

17. The Bucket on Main Street

18. Stakeholders

Notes and Sources

Index

About the Author

Stephen Most is a playwright and documentary storyteller. He has contributed to numerous documentary films, including Emmy Award winners Wonders of Nature and Promises and the Academy Award-nominated Berkeley in the Sixties. His plays Medicine Show, Watershed, and A Free Country dramatize events in Pacific Northwest history.To listen to an interview with Stephen Most entitled

Reviews

"Most tells these stories in the voices of the protagonists, who give the basin's complex history an illuminating immediacy that infuses the entire book. It is a mark of his achievement that he has been able to make these historical, cultural, and environmental pieces into a comprehensive whole. River of Renewal is the best source available for those wishing to think clearly about this cumulative tragedy, as well as a first—rate model for regional land use anywhere in the American West."
*Orion Magazine*

"Most's account is one of the best in recent years for its integration of Native with newcomer, past with present, and myth with reality."
*Environmental History*

"This book should be mandatory reading for anyone who cares about environmental problems and the complex tangle of modern society and its competing economic and political interests."
*The Journal of the West*

"River of Renewal offers an impressionistic, highly informative trip through the Klamath Basin's contentious past, and it does that particular job quite well."
*Oregon Historical Quarterly*

"If a new book of regional history aspired to classic status, it would be ingeniously conceived and gracefully written. It would break new ground and offer penetrating insights. It would prove indispensable to understanding a controversial current event. Stephen Most has written such a book."
*Portland Oregonian*