Michael Forsberg, the man behind the lens in Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild has an article in the Spring 2010 edition of Nature Conservancy Magazine. Forsberg discusses his three year project to photograph the stark beauty of the remaining natural habitats in this once thriving ecosystem that stretches over one million square miles from southern Canada to northern Mexico, but which is now one of the most threatened environments in North America. Complete with a special Youtube video that matches some of the images from the book with Forsberg’s commentary, the article drives home the urgent need for to protect the Great Plains and the surprising abundance of wildlife that rely on it. Read it online at the Nature Conservancy Magazine website.
Also see a gallery of photographs from the book and sample pages in PDF format (4.2Mb).