The Library At the heart of the Rocky Mountain Land Library is a remarkable community resource - a natural history library of more than 15,000 volumes, along with thousands of maps, journals, and periodicals. The subject range of this collection is both broad and deep, with thousands of studies of flora and fauna, and many more titles on ecology, conservation, astronomy, geology, archaeology, paleontology, literature, poetry, Native American studies, and Western history. Many titles address Western land issues, while many concern the various cultures, both ancient and modern, that have inhabited our region. In the summer of 2006, the Land Library received a tremendous boost when Denver's Tattered Cover Book Store donated more than enough bookcases to shelve our always growing collection. A hardy band of volunteers dismantled the shelves, and transported them to temporary storage. Their labor (and the Tattered Cover's amazing generosity) gave the Land Library not only wonderful wooden shelves, but also • a tremendous financial savings, • a perfect chance to recycle old wood & shelf hardware, and lastly, • a historic link to one of the Rockies' great literary traditions - the venerable Tattered Cover Book Store. Our Site Search With both books and shelves in hand, the Rocky Mountain Land Library is currently engaged in a site search to provide a suitable environment for a residential land-study center for the Rockies - a place where individuals and groups can use the truly remarkable resource of the Land Library's books, and the additional field resource of the surrounding lands. The Rocky Mountain Land Library will be a place of quiet, creativity, and inspiration - a place to refuel our commitment to the land, and to our communities, wherever they may be. Every community needs an organization with the vision and understanding of the Rocky Mountain Land Library. As wildlands disappear from our lives, we need all the help we can find to maintain our crucial age-old relationship with landscape. The Library celebrates the books that illuminate this relationship and nourishes the writers who scout the frontiers and expose the bedrock of our connections to our home landscapes. --Stephen Trimble, photographer and author of The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places