From the Editor's Desk:

"Welcome to our new Journal. For longtime readers of our previous publication, as you will quickly see, we've maintained our focus on thematic topics that delve deeply into issues of interest to ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists and others. Our goal, as before, is to inspire and educate. After Nine years, however, we decided it was time to use 'fresh eyes' on the publication. I hope what you see and read meets your expectations.

"To new readers, we hope you will find the material in these pages thought-provoking and inspirational as well. As the subtitle says, we are trying to foster a land health movement - a movement whose aim is to rebuild relationships between people, between people and land, and between ecological processes - starting at the level of soil, grass, and water. Key to this movement is the sharing of knowledge. It is our sincere hope that in this Journal you will find something of use for where you live and work.

"And we welcome your feedback. If practical, in future issues we plan to include a Reader's Corner - so please send me your comments: executive@quiviracoalition.org

"The theme of this issue is 'A New Land Movement' which farmer and author Peter Forbes describes as being focused on the critically important job of saving relationships along with saving places. As each contributor suggests, we are entering a new era, one which heeds Wendell Berry's instruction that 'You can't save the land without the people, to save either you have to save both.'

"I thank each of the authors for their help. I also want to thank Tamara Gadzia for doing the desktop publishing work. Her skill and diligence is hugely appreciated by all - myself especially!

"And thanks to all of you for taking the time to read it!" -Courtney White

Contents:

• A New Land Movement: Beyond Saving Places to Saving Relationships -Peter Forbes
• In Praise, and in Appraisal of, the Working Landscapes of the West -Gary Paul Nabhan with Ken Meter
• A West that Works: A Corner Turned - the Chico Basin Ranch -Courtney White
• A View from the Field: An Ecotone, Not a Divide -Julie Sullivan
• The Break of Day: PrePostindustrialism - or Getting from Here to There -Courtney White
• Restoration Working Paper No. 1: Seeing the Forest and the Trees - a Review of a Collaborative Restoration Project on Rowe Mesa, San Miguel County, New Mexico -Courtney White

**Support for this publication was provided in part by: The Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation, The Healy Foundation, and by Annual Membership in The Quivira Coalition.

Front cover photo by Peter Forbes.