University of Washington Press
by Riki Ott

The glossy art book Alaska's Copper River Delta visits one of the world's most remarkable wetlands - with its associated rain forest, barrier islands, mountains, and glaciers, and its wildlife and human inhabitants - and reveals a delta rich in color and images through the work of 22 artists from 11 countries. Organized by local residents and the Artists for Nature Foundation (Netherlands), artists visited the delta in July 1995 and May 1997 to coincide with spawning runs of the renowned Copper River salmon, and the world's greatest shorebird migration.

At 700,000 acres, the Copper River delta is the largest wetlands on the Pacific Coast of North America. Over 235 species of birds nest in the different habitats of the delta. The delta and its coastal marine waters also provide critical habitat for 40 species of mammals and for some of North America's most productive and last remaining runs of wild sockeye, king and coho salmon. These anadromous fish play a central role in driving the great engine of life on the delta.

Riki Ott is one of the founders of the Copper River Watershed Project. She lives in Cordova, Alaska.

Published in association with Artists for Nature Foundation

160 pp., 130 color illus., bibliog., maps, index, Paper, ISBN 0-295-97743-4, $29.95

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