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September/October 2026 Events
CPW's New Beaver Strategy
Annie Hart, Species Conservation Biologist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, will present CPW's new beaver conservation and management strategy.
What Happens When Wildlife & Highways Collide
Granby Library
Thursday, October 1, 5:30 p.m.
Michelle Cowardin, Wildlife Movement Coordinator for Colorado Parks and Wildlife will present on working with CDOT for HWY 9's success of animal crossings at the
Conversation with Author Ben Goldfarb
Granby Library
Saturday, October 3, 6 p.m.
Join Grand County Library District for an author talk with Ben Goldfarb, environmental journalist and writer of the non-fiction books “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter”, and “Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet”. There will be a visual presentation, followed by audience Q&A moderated by Martin J. Smith. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
WINNER of multiple awards!
Written with clarity, intelligence, and humor, this engaging book will appeal to basically everyone.
― Forbes
Eager takes us inside the amazing world of nature's premier construction engineer...and shows us why the restoration of an animal almost driven to extinction is producing wide-ranging, positive effects on our landscapes, ecology, and even our economy.― National Geographic
A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents.... A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.
―The Washington Post