A New Plateau: Sustaining the Lands and Peoples of Canyon Country Peter Friederici and Rose Houk, editors. 2004. Minneapolis: Renewing the Countryside. Paper. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-9713391-6-3. 159 pages.

O’odham/Chicano/Swedish descent and Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network (IPRN), a working group of the Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER). He is also on the steering committee of the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative for Pacific North America and has 40 years of experience in temperate and tropical restoration. He can be reached at PO Box 495, Douglas City, CA 96024;