"Penobscot Bay from the River Mouth"

Saving the Ducktrap River and the salmon that live there involves preserving all the living world around it: ponds and tributaries, trees and plants, headwaters and wetlands, insects and wildlife. "Our ethical obligation to conserve biodiversity is both anthropocentric—in the interests of our own species—and biocentric—in the interests of the entire living world," writes Scott Dickerson, executive director of Coastal Mountains Land Trust, in To Save a River.

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