Near his home in the Catskill Mountains, author Collin Douma helped an old turtle cross the road toward the Ashokan Reservoir. She was likely headed to her nesting ground, flooded over a century ago. Imagine her first years surviving the flooding of the valley. An inch of a life in a world of monstrous scale.

Her story anchors the debut collection of United Fauna Dispatches. Twelve eco surrealist paintings. Twelve sardonic dispatches. A natural world that defiantly persists in the wake of human impact.