John Weisheit photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P1926

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The John Weisheit photograph collection consists of 1 box containing 10 8x10 black and white photographs (copy prints), 49 4x5 black and white photographs (copy prints), 22 4x5 black and white photographs, and 26 5x7 or smaller color photographs depicting river trips on the Colorado River from 1872 to 1975. Individuals depicted in the images include river guides Bert Loper and Georgie White.

Dates

Creation: 1872-1975

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical / Historical

John Weisheit was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California. After growing up in Whittier California and Phoenix Arizona, he moved to Moab Utah in 1987. He married Susette Renea DeCoster in 1990. The couple worked as Wilderness Guides for Tag-A-Long Expeditions specializing in southeastern Utah. Weisheit’s experience as a river guide, particularly his observations of how the Colorado River changed over the decades of his career, led him to writing and teaching about the ecology of the Colorado River (Nolter, 2022).

Weisheit served on non-profit boards such as the Canyonlands Field Institute and the Colorado Plateau River Guides. In 2000, Weisheit co-founded Living Rivers/Colorado Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting river restoration through instilling “a new ethic of achieving ecological restoration, balanced with meeting human needs” (Living Rivers, 2007). In 2004, the University of Utah Press published Cataract Canyon: A Human and Environmental History of the Rivers in Canyonlands, cowritten by John Weisheit, Robert H. Webb, and Jayne Belnap. The focus of the book is the biological, geological, and human history of Cataract Canyon.

Sources: Living Rivers. (2007, January 24). About. Living Rivers.

Nolter, John. (2022, May 12). John Weisheit. A Peace of My Mind.

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet (1 Box) : 107 items

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

John Weisheit (1954-) is a Colorado river guide, writer, speaker, and advocate for river restoration. This collection contains copy prints of Colorado River history and photograph prints of trips down the river guided by Bert Loper and Georgie White.