What: In partnership with the Sun River Watershed Group, the Library will host a speaker series with five speakers from January through May focusing on conservation efforts, the Sun River Watershed, and the authors and books that shaped the area. January’s speaker will be Hal Herring. The talks are open to all, with the hopes to ignite a love for the outdoors and the sense of adventure all Montanans hold dear.

Hal Herring is a long-time contributing editor and writer for Field and Stream magazine, and has covered conservation, the environment and public lands issues as a reporter for national publications for almost thirty years. His work was featured in the 2020 film Public Trust and he has been at work for the past five years on a book for Patagonia publishing about the history, present, and future of the American public lands. That book is slated for release in 2027.