Casting Onward

Steve Ramirez, Author Bio, Casting Onward (Inside Back Jacket-Cover) Steve Ramirez is an outdoor and conservation author who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. Steve's first book, Casting Forward - Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country, (Lyons Press) has received critical acclaim, and is in its second printing. His work has appeared in various journals including Fly Fisherman Magazine, Trout Magazine, The Flyfish Journal, American Angler, Tail Magazine, Texas Sporting Journal, Explore Magazine, Under Wild Skies, Cutthroat: Journal of the Arts, The Houston Literary Review, and many more. Steve serves as the Ambassador for Texas, for the American Museum of Fly-Fishing, is a Life Member of Trout Unlimited, and a contributing member of the Nature Conservancy, Audubon, and the Native Fish Coalition. As a certified Master Naturalist, Steve is passionately involved in promoting the restoration and conservation of the watersheds, rivers, canyons, forests, deserts, wetlands, grasslands, and shorelines of North America and beyond. He is an avid hiker and world adventure traveler who has explored four continents, but who always seems to return home to the spring fed Hill Country streams of Texas. "Teaser" (Inside Front Jacket-Cover) How do we find healing and hope in an all too often wounded and seemingly hopeless world? What can be done to save the sacred places and wildlife that are threatened by the unending advance of humanity, and the unfortunate expansion of apathy? In this second installment of the "Casting Forward" series, Steve Ramirez takes us on an outdoor adventure, fly-fishing and hiking across the rivers, streams, and shores of North America, in search of native gamefish, meaningful friendships, and a more hopeful future. Casting Onward is the story of adapting to the rapidly unfolding transitions of the Earth's changing climate, both natural and human. It is the story of finding our tribe and uniting in the creation of a better future. It is a tribute to the resilience of humanity and nature, and a call for hopeful action. In Casting Onward, the existence or absence of native fish becomes a bellwether for the success or failure of human impacts on once healthy, whole, living, environments. It seeks to answer the questions about those things in life that truly matter, and what is most worth fighting to restore, preserve, and protect, across this great nation. It askes the core question that humanity needs to ask itself... "Are the choices we are making, healthy... or wise?" It doesn't matter if you are an angler, hiker, naturalist, or simply find peace walking in a city park... Casting Onward will transport you to times and places where you too can explore and experience the power of nature and the best of human nature.