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Sponsored by “Living with Wolves,” Carter Niemeyer speaks about about how wolves are doing 20 years after their reintroduction into Yellowstone and Central Idaho. He will be signing copies of his most recent memoir, Wolf Land.

Carter Niemeyer is an Iowa native and has Bachelor of Science (1970) and Masters (1973) degrees in wildlife biology from Iowa State University. He was a trapper for the Montana Department of Livestock, and a district supervisor for USDA Wildlife Services in western Montana managing and controlling large predators. He was then chosen as the wolf management specialist for USDA Wildlife Services covering the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In that position, he was responsible for livestock depredation investigations, as well as wolf capture and removal. His tenure with USDA lasted 26 years. Niemeyer was a member of the wolf capture team in Canada during reintroduction in the mid-1990s. He was recruited by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to run the federal wolf recovery program in Idaho, and retired in 2006, coincidentally on the same day wolf management was officially handed over to the state of Idaho. Since retiring he has worked for Washington State University on livestock/wolf interaction research and in northern California on emerging wolf issues. His work has taken him to England, Scotland, France and Kyrgyzstan. In 2010 he published Wolfer, a memoir of his career. His second memoir, Wolf Land, published in 2016.

Local author Julie Weston reads from and discusses her new mystery novel, Basque Moon.

Basque Moon is set in the Stanley Basin of Idaho in the 1920s and features Nellie Burns, a photographer, and her black Labrador dog, Moonshine. The novel is an exciting and authentic story of western conflicts in the 1920s. Nellie must dig deep to restore her faith in herself and her chosen profession.

The event is free and open to the public. Wine will be served.

 

FRED PLOTKIN, one of America’s foremost experts on opera, is a distinguished writer, speaker and consultant, a teacher, and expert on everything Italian. The New York Times described Plotkin as “one of those New York word-of-mouth legends, known by the cognoscenti for his renaissance mastery of two seemingly separate disciplines: music and the food of Italy.”

The event is free and open to the public.

The Community Library will be hosting a series of films throughout the fall, dubbed “Movie Night at the Library!” The first of these screenings is Midnight in Paris (2011).

“While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée’s family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.”

Directed by Woody Allen, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Kathy Bates.

As part of the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival, authors Carolyn Dufurrena and Pam Royes read from and discuss their work.

Carolyn Dufurrena is an author, poet, filmmaker and award-winning journalist from rural northwestern Nevada. She is a regular contributor to RANGE Magazine, and was Outside Editor for C.J. Hadley’s Reflections of the West: Cowboy Painters and Poets as well as Brushstrokes and Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West, which received the Wrangler Award for Best Poetry Book of 2014 from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and the 2014 Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Poetry. She is the author of the award-winning Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch, with photographer Linda Dufurrena, and Sharing Fencelines: Three Friends Write from Nevada’s Sagebrush Corner with Linda Hussa and Sophie Sheppard as well as a poetry chapbook, “That Blue Hour.”

She performs regularly at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko and is a member of Nevada Arts Council’s Artists in Schools and Communities Roster, through which she conducts residencies in poetry and digital storytelling. She is a member of the Nevada Humanities Board of Trustees.

Pamela Royes,  is an author, she lives with her husband in northeastern, Oregon where they raise cattle and hay. They have two children and three grandchildren. Temperance Creek, a memoir and her first book is being hailed by critics around the country.

The event is free and open to the public.