Ana Maria Spagna's book is about "saving" the earth through restoring, rehabilitating, and, yes, reclaiming in all its complexity. Spagna hopscotched up and down the West Coast, visiting Death Valley, Marin County, Rocky Recah Dam, Celilo Dam, and many others, to explore the trend toward reversing the early 20th-century landscape "improvements" made by humans taming the American West. Her approach and writing style sometimes replicate the challenges of the task-at-hand, as she records not only the many issues associated with dam removal, or Native control of land, or protecting trees, or safeguarding rivers, but also her own missed phone calls, broken fan belts and water pumps, and cultural miscommunication. Still, her willingness to listen deeply to the stories of the reclaimers, to accept that many perspectives have validity, makes for an important and thought-provoking book. Most importantly, Spagna problematizes the question of what we aim to restore landscapes to. "Aren't we better off considering, always, changes humans have made in the past, for better as well as for worse," she concludes, "when considering ones to make in the future?"