This Land Is Your Land

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Join the Eagle Valley Library District and Walking Mountains Science Center as they celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the High Country Speaker Series with a look back at how far we have come and the changes we have encountered as we prepare for the future in the high country.

This Land Is Your Land

Thursday, April 6, 2017 | 5:30pm
Presenter: Dyana Z. Furmansky
Location: Walking Mountains Science Center

Discussion Highlights: Dyana’ Furmansky’s presentation focuses on the history of the White River National Forest, one of the earliest forest reserves drawn from the public domain. She explains why far-seeing federal management of the White River is essential to assure that all public lands be retained as the nation’s natural inheritance for the benefit of all Americans, and how this effort is up to us.

Speaker Biography: Dyana Z. Furmansky’s first piece on the history of public land was published in American Heritage Magazine in 1982. Her latest book Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who saved Nature From the Conservationists tangentially concerned the conflict over public lands. In 2009 ‘Rosalie Edge’ was named the Wormsloe Foundation’s Nature Book of the year, and in 2010 the book won the Colorado Book Award for Biography. Dyana won the prestigious George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting for her contribution to the High Country News series, ‘Western Water Made Simple.’ Her book, These American Lands first published in 1985 was praised by the late Wallace Stegner as “the only indispensable narrative history of the public lands.”  Furmansky has also written on a variety of subjects for The New York Times and many other publications. She now contributes to a monthly magazine called Desert Leaf in Tucson, and is working on a book about the contentious making of Grand Teton National Park. Dyana and her husband Bert live in Vail, and Tucson.

The High Country Speaker Series is a partnership between the Eagle Valley Library District and Walking Mountains Science Center with the mission of encouraging environmental awareness, inspiring positive relationships with the natural world, and creating thought provoking dialogue in our community through FREE dynamic programming.