Award Winning Author Kurt Fausch

Author of For the Love of Rivers & A Reverence for Rivers

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  • Book cover titled 'For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist's Journey' by Kurt D. Fausch, featuring a person sitting on a grassy island in a river in a mountainous landscape.

    For the Love of Rivers

    In For the Love of Rivers, Kurt Fausch highlights an international collaboration among stream ecologists to discover the essence of rivers and the strong hidden connections with their surrounding forests.

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  • Book cover titled 'A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters' by Kurt D. Fausc, featuring a lush green forest with a flowing river.

    A Reverence for Rivers

    Using engaging storytelling, Fausch draws readers into the challenges facing rivers worldwide, and envisions an ethic for living with and caring for the running waters on which we rely.

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A Reverence for Rivers

Group of people outdoors, dressed in casual and outdoor gear, gathered around a man demonstrating something in a small container, with buckets and equipment on the ground. It looks like a nature or educational field activity.

Dr. Kurt Fausch is an award-winning scientist and author focused on the ecology and ethics of streams and rivers. 

He is a professor emeritus at Colorado State University where he taught for 35 years.  His research with scores of students and collaborators on streams and their fish and other organisms took him throughout the Midwest and West, and to northern Japan.

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Praise for A Reverence for Rivers & For the Love of Rivers

  • "In this beautifully written and soulful book, Kurt Fausch exposes the raw nerve of conservation: do we care enough about the natural world to save some of it?"

    Brian Richter

    Chief Scientist of the Nature Conservancy's Global Water Program

  • "Written in the tradition of Aldo Leopold, A Reverence for Rivers makes a case for ethical river conservation in plain language, including cultural perspectives of indigenous people and the urgent importance of rivers for sustaining a livable planet."

    Peter Moyle

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus of fish conservation, University of California-Davis

  • “A Reverence for Rivers is an eloquent contribution to developing an ethics of river conservation. Fausch’s writing is lyrical, and the lessons are profound. Readers cannot help but become more receptive to the beauty and complexity of rivers, and the astounding vitality of riverine life."

    Sandra Lubarsky

    Professor Emeritus of sustainable communities, Northern Arizona University

  • “For the Love of Rivers is a book that will inspire and enlighten anyone with a personal or professional connection to rivers, water, and conservation.”

    Jeremy Monroe

    Founder and Director of Freshwaters Illustrated

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