Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

THANK YOU Westword, Best of Denver 2025! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👍

How could we not? After nearly 250 years there’s never been a time when we would have done something different. Why now?

Climate change: World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded The planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study.

Ice is nature's most precise and reliable thermometer. And if you're one of those people who thinks a stable climate is a nice thing, what it's telling us ain't good.

Outgoing Bureau of Land Management director optimistic about public lands - High Country News Tracy Stone-Manning discusses the BLM’s achievements and talks about the future as we enter a new political era.

We sat down with the outgoing director of The Bureau of Land Management, Tracey Stone-Manning, to talk about how she’s helped conserve public lands and what’s next.

The importance of ‘Being Caribou’ - High Country News Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.

In 2007, I read Karsten Heuer's book Being Caribou, and it changed my life. Last year, Karsten died at just 56 years old. I hope you'll read this remembrance I wrote, about his work and what it meant to me and so many others. It's as relevant now as it ever was ❤️ www.hcn.org/articles/the...

Those in the UK & beyond watching Trump’s murderous freeze on federal funding streams, please go follow @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for information, resistance, organisation, hope & clarity on this and other matters.

HABITAT BOOK OF THE WEEK 📚🌱

Habitat Library’s new in-person NATIVE READS BOOK CLUB begins on March 1st, w/ Oscar Hokeah’s novel Calling for a Blanket Dance. “A new voice with ancient music.” — Luis Alberto Urrea.
(For details & how to register for this FREE event: email jeff@habitatlibrary.co.site)

This advance copy just arrived, and I am so grateful and SO EXCITED! You'll be excited too, when you get your own copy. Because this book by award winning writer Christina Rivera @crivera.bsky.social is so important and such a beauty! #myoceans #writing #newbooks #booksky #whales #oceans

Remembering Dana Crawford, a True Denver Landmark “As a preservationist, I have to be optimistic and look on the bright side of everything."

Westword’s Patricia Calhoun began her thoughtful tribute to Preservationist/developer Dana Crawford with, “I have never known a Denver without Dana Crawford.” And she ended it this way, “She left Denver an incredible legacy; now it’s our job to preserve it.
She showed us how.”
#denver @westword.com

Fantastic Ryan Warner interview with Auden Schendler about "Terrible Beauty", which gets real and gets big on climate change. Auden will be speaking in Paonia Wednesday January 15, at 5 pm at KVNF. Books for sale at Paonia Books.

Plus one more 🌱🌱📚📚

As the National Western Stock Show gets underway in Denver, here’s a few good books on Ranching across the Americas…

Michelle was a wonderful supportive guide as we (nervously) prepared for our Colorado Matters segment a few years back. Thank you Michelle — we wish you the best! 👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻

A first-class journalist embarks on her next journey | Colorado Public Radio After a newspaper career that landed her a Pulitzer Prize, Michelle P. Fulcher joined Colorado Matters as a producer in 2007. She has brought hard-hitting political interviews to the air, and delights...

A longtime Colorado Matters producer retires today. I barely know what my worklife will look like without Michelle P. Fulcher.

Here's our audio adieu to her... complete with a bovine hairball:

Inside the Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit How one family turned their peach orchard into a rallying cry for saving heirloom flavors and building community.

🍑 "These are peaches that make you feel alive."

Great article about the Masumoto Family Farm, a 4th gen Japanese American farm in CA. I had these peaches and it's absolutely true!

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ins...

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life “Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the t…

Barry Lopez, who would've been 79 today, on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life

Nikki McClure illustrationsfrom Something About the Sky:

“Clouds are as old as the earth itself…”
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A wonderful book for all ages, Something About the Sky rescues a long-forgotten piece by Rachel Carson — her invitation to “read the language of the sky.”
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Cloud spotters will love Nikki McClure’s illustrations! ⛅️ ⛅️

John Muir Laws to offer Jan. 23 Zoom webinar "The art and science of keeping a nature journal" - Open the door to rich discovery, better memory, and more fun in nature by attending a free Zoom webinar hosted by John Muir Laws on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. The webinar, “This is Your Brain On Paper: The art...

#nature #naturewriting #naturejournaling #science #observation #seeing www.adirondackalmanack.com/2024/12/john...

Our Statement on the Passing of President Carter For decades, you could walk into Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia on some Sunday mornings and see hundreds of tourists from…

Thank you, Mr. President, for reminding us what it means to serve a nation. So many of us are so frightened now, for the Earth, for those we love, for our freedoms to speak, live, learn. To drop our guard and remember human decency is a profoundly moving thing. barackobama.medium.com/our-statemen...

When in doubt, look up.

In May of 1978, President Jimmy Carter visited South Table Mountain in Colorado to mark “Sun Day,” a new holiday celebrating the dawn of a solar age.

(Back then NREL was known as SERI— the Solar Energy Research Institute.)

Source: www.nrel.gov/about/histor...

Poem of the Week: On Árainn A new work by Jane Clarke

New poem in today's @irishtimes.bsky.social inspired by visit to farmer for nature Pádraic Ó Flaithearta on Árainn last September. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We couldn’t have said that better!

Darn — sorry Ryan. We meant that as a very strong endorsement 👍👍 of what you is. What you give to us all. Horrible grammar, but that’s what you is.

We can all use a little more extraneous “is” — something you’re always good for!

I'm still super proud of this anthology, published in the spring: what a line up! And perfect for Christmas, without it being a puppy or anything. From bookshops, big and small, and the Little Toller website.