For the Love of Rivers

Stream ecologist Dr. Kurt Fausch will be the featured speaker at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute in Ashland, Wisconsin Thursday, October 13 at 7 p.m. Dr. Fausch is the author of the new book,  For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist’s Journey.

In his book, Dr. Fausch draws readers across the reflective surface of streams to view and ponder what is beneath, and how they work. Fausch has spent his career studying how fish make a living in streams and how streams are linked to their riparian forests. While celebrating their beauty and mystery, he uses his many years of experience as a field biologist to explain the underlying science connecting these aquatic ecosystems to their streamside forests and the organisms found there—including humans.