Climate, Hope & Resilience
From the front lines of wildfire to vanishing salt lakes and communities reshaping a warming world, this panel explores how people confront ecological crisis with courage and imagination. Blending memoir, global reporting and personal transformation, these authors illuminate where resilience and hope take root amid a changing climate.
| Where: | National Park Experience Stage (Seats 146, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - National Parks (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Nature / Environment |
| Moderator: | Carol Schwalbe |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Western National Parks |
Panelists
River SelbyRiver Selby is the author of "Hotshot: A Life on Fire," dealing with life as a firefighter. They are currently a Kingsbury and Legacy Fellow at Florida State University, where they are pursuing their Ph....
Caroline TraceyCaroline Tracey is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and High Country News. Her first book, "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History," has just been published....
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Alan WeismanAlan Weisman has reported from all seven continents and more than 60 countries. His books include The New York Times bestseller "The World Without Us," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award....
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Books:
Salt Lakes
An Unnatural History
Caroline Tracey
Nature / Environment
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
March 2026
ISBN 9781324089025
Hardcover, 288 pages
Buy nowSalt lakes are some of the world’s most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of
them—from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea—are drying up, a harbinger of dust
storms, rising sea levels, and worsening human health.
In this dazzling love letter to
strange and delicate waters and a moving odyssey into her own identity, Caroline
Tracey takes readers across the American West and to Mexico, Argentina, and
Kazakhstan to document salt lakes, their loss, and the efforts underway to save them.
She explores how the lakes have reflected the fast–changing natural world through
Mormon diaries, Soviet realist novels, and Australian Aboriginal paintings. And she
unravels the lakes’ lessons for her own life as she finds queer love and a sense of home
in an imperfect world. An unforgettable coming–of–age story and an exquisite work of
nature writing, Salt Lakes is a moving call to fight for all that is fragile in our lives. More/less
Hope Dies Last
Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
Alan Weisman
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
April 2025
ISBN 9781524746698
512 pages
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Hotshot
A Life on Fire
River Selby
History / Biography
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
August 2025
ISBN 9780802149497
304 pages
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