Finch Conservation

Beth Maynor Young is an accomplished conservation photographer who has spent much of her life chronicling the natural beauty and remnant wild places of the contemporary South. In 1990, she founded Cahaba River Publishing, a conservation-motivated firm that supports her life’s passion— nature and landscape photography. Today, Beth’s photographs give us a moving vision of the natural world and speak quietly yet deeply of our need to preserve the South’s unique environmental heritage. Her photographs are mostly from unprotected places—each with its own story of biological compromise and imminent threat. But these places also embrace a Southern tradition—of being saved and preserved, of restoration and resurrection. Her conservation photography is part of many private and corporate art collections across the country. The renown popularity of her work is a testament to the importance of environmental issues and the caliber of her photography. Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers, is her newest book, which can be ordered on her web site. Alabama has a geology and biology story that trumps any other state in the U.S. This story of Alabama is told by a master story teller, John C. Hall. She is currently photographing a book on the Longleaf Pine forest and ecosystem working with Rhett Johnson, Bill Finch and John Hall. beth@bethyoung.net