During the course of his career, his elegantly written essays and articles appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers.Īt the time of his death, Mr. With author Sarah Bates, he co- wrote "Overtapped Oasis" in 1989, an examination of Western water policy.
Fish and Wildlife Service who specialized in busting international poaching rings. Reisner was also the author of "Game Wars," a 1991 book that elucidated the career of Dave Hall, a now retired special agent for the U.S. "Cadillac Desert" was ranked by the Modern Library as 61st among the 100 most notable nonfiction English language works published in the 20th century. The film won a Columbia University/Peabody Award. The book was the basis for a $2.8 million documentary film series, which was first shown on national Public Broadcasting stations in 1997. Reisner's book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1979, and began the research on water policy that ultimately resulted in "Cadillac Desert." From 1972 to 1979, he was a staff writer and communications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Paul, Minn., and was a 1970 graduate of Earlham College in Indiana. It stimulated a campaign for water policy reform that continues to the present. The book was a wake-up call about destructive dam-building, pork barrel water subsidies, and the general frittering away of the West's scarce water resources.
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