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We’re all about the power of books to connect people to nature, land, and to each other.

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As wolf reintroduction begins in Colorado, this winter feels like a perfect time to launch the WOLF RETURN BOOK CLUB. We have two great books lined up! Registration begins this Wednesday, 10am. Click here for more:
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10.01.2024 00:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WE LOVE when people describe the Land Library better than we do! We’re inspired to live up to these words from Ed Roberson, creator & host of Mountain & Prairie, the smartest podcast we know about the American West! 📚📚📚🌱🌱🌱
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17.12.2023 21:17 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bibliophiles & Biophiles — YES we’re very happy tonight! One of the Land Library’s favorite authors just wrote her definitive take on the Land Library.
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21.12.2023 03:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WE LOVE when people describe the Land Library better than we do! We’re inspired to live up to these words from Ed Roberson, creator & host of Mountain & Prairie, the smartest podcast we know about the American West! 📚📚📚🌱🌱🌱
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17.12.2023 21:17 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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JUST PUBLISHED: a new collection of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s writings. Bailey’s (1858-1954) work spread the nature-study idea — simply put, take learning out of the classroom & into the field🌱🌱🌱🌎🌍🌏
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16.12.2023 00:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NEW ARRIVAL — Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by National Book Award winner Tiya Miles. Stories of courage & conviction from Harriet Tubman to Dolores Huerta.
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15.12.2023 00:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JUST IN: Colorado has two new National Historic Landmarks. They are Temple Aaron in Trinidad and Wink’s Panorama near Pinecliff. The former is a historic synagogue that still operates. The later is a lodge at Lincoln Hills— then the only African-American resort in the western US.

13.12.2023 16:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A gift that always fits? A book! Here are some recommendations with Colorado connections This gift-giving season, Colorado Matters asked Emily Sinclair, owner of Paonia Books on Grand Avenue in Paonia, for recommendations of good reads with Colorado connections.

A great book list from Emily Sinclair at PAONIA BOOKS ! 📚📚📚📚📚📚
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13.12.2023 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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FALCONRY is a topic we know little about, but we knew it had to be part of a library focused on people, nature & land. We hope the books we’re gathering serves as a Falconry 101 for many -including us. For more on the Land Library:
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13.12.2023 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UNPACKING A LIBRARY — one of our old favorites just emerged: The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Job #2: find space at the Globeville Land Library so it can join great books like these…
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13.12.2023 01:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TIME TRAVEL at the Land Library —
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We try to keep current with all the great books & new voices publishing today. But we also travel back in time for what was once new. Good books like these…
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10.12.2023 00:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - New Storytellers, Out at Sea, Out of Mind A deep dive into the sonic realms of the sea and the effects of man-made noise pollution.

Required listening: what our sound does to cetaceans.

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09.12.2023 15:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Let’s talk basics…

09.12.2023 03:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WITH THANKS TO SO MANY, the Land Library has raised over $14,000 in the past seven days. We’re almost halfway toward our End-of-Year goal of matching the Borgen Family Foundation’s $30k Challenge Grant. Onward & upwards, with thanks to all…

07.12.2023 01:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BOOKS, LAND, NATURE & COMMUNITY — Thanks to Colorado Gives Day for providing the spark those ingredients need. It’s been a very good day! And there’s still time to help support the Land Library — click here for more: 🌎🌍📚📚
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06.12.2023 01:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ON THE EVE of Colorado Gives Day, we circle back to what the Land Library is all about— Books, People, Nature & Land.
Please help us gather all the voices we need — rural & urban voices, poets & scientists, ALL of us. Click here for more:
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05.12.2023 01:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Borgen Family Foundation has given our Year-End Campaign a tremendous boost: a $30,000 CHALLENGE GRANT! We’ve raised $9,000 since Giving Tuesday. Help us close the gap tomorrow on Colorado Gives Day! Click here to watch your donation double!
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04.12.2023 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HOW TO READ the American West — and how to read rivers, mountains, prairies, climate change, environmental justice, and the sky above. Just some of what you’ll find at the Rocky Mountain Land Library. For more (and HT support), click here: 🌎🌏📚📚
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04.12.2023 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We spent today unpacking the Land Library. We love these books like kids love their baseball card collection. But we also know that they are what we need in the days ahead, full of tipping points we barely understand. 🌎🌍📚

02.12.2023 23:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THANKS TO EVERYONE who contributed on Giving Tuesday! Now we’re on to COLORADO GIVES DAY — and you don’t have to live in Colorado to join in 🌎📚
Thanks also to Gloria Dickie for her generous words. We love her new book EIGHT BEARS!
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30.11.2023 23:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TODAY’S THE DAY 🌎📚 For the next weeks we’ll be raising funds for 2024, plus sharing Land Library news & plans. Join us in creating a Headwaters to Plains Network dedicated to nature & land, the timeless story that connects us all. CLICK HERE for more!
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28.11.2023 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ON THE EVE of Giving Tuesday, here’s a quote we love, & will always aspire to:
“The Rocky Mountain Land Library is like a gene bank for words; it’s our way of saving the past for the future.” — David Mas Masumoto, farmer & author 🍑 🍑 🍑
For more & How to Help:
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28.11.2023 01:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ON THE EVE of Giving Tuesday, here’s a quote we love, & will always aspire to:
“The Rocky Mountain Land Library is like a gene bank for words; it’s our way of saving the past for the future.” — David Mas Masumoto, farmer & author 🍑 🍑 🍑
For more & How to Help:
landlibrary.wordpress.com

28.11.2023 01:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What a night we had in The Great Hall at the #DartingtonTrust.

Michael Morpurgo is a master story teller. Beautifully woven together by Adrian, impeccably organised by the Dartington Trust bookshop ( Graeme & Patrick )

It all ended with Michael singing. What a privilege.

26.11.2023 15:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Year-End Campaign is underway. This year we’re hoping other voices can help tell the story of the Land Library. Voices like author & poet CAMILLE DUNGY!
For more on the Land Library, and how you can help, please click here:
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26.11.2023 01:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re excited about the month ahead — our Year-End Campaign is underway, a time when we ask for your support, and share good news & plans for the LAND LIBRARY in the year ahead! Visit www.landlibrary.org for more 🌎🌍📚

25.11.2023 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AS WE UNPACK the Land Library, we just came across an oasis of great books on deserts & arid lands. There’s more to come! ☀️☀️📚📚

02.11.2023 23:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DENVER’S FIRST SNOW — October 28th ❄️❄️❄️❄️
And somehow the snow’s fresh arrival matches our mood to slow down, seek quiet, and burrow with a book. 📚📚🔥🔥

28.10.2023 23:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FROM THE SORTING ROOM —as we unpack the Land Library, each box holds sudden surprises — favorite books that we haven’t seen in years. Great books like these… 📦 📦 📚📚

27.10.2023 22:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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