Canaries on the Rim

by Chip Ward

About the Author - Events & Discussions - About the Book

A mild-mannered librarian by day, Chip Ward, who managed Utah's public library development program moved to Grantsville, Utah in the late 1970s so he and his wife could raise their children in the classic setting of small-town America. There, on the edge of the Great Basin Desert, disturbing tales of local sickness and death interrupted an idyllic life. In a seven-year quest to understand a hidden history of ecocide, Ward has cofounded West Desert HEAL, Families Against Incinerator Risk, and the Citizens Against Chlorine Contamination, and is a national spokesperson for the Chemical Weapons Working Group, an umbrella organization for grassroots groups opposing chemical weapons incineration.

-Verso Books  http://www.project-112shad-fdn.com/book1.htm

Chip’s Blog site, with 16 essays published online since 2003 http://www.chipwardessays.blogspot.com/ 

Chip Ward is a former grassroots organizer/activist who has led several successful campaigns to hold polluters accountable. He described his political adventures in Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land. Today he works to protect the spectacular redrock wildlands of Utah.
-The Nation