BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:275@lincolnconservation.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T193000 DTSTAMP:20251008T181633Z URL:https://lincolnconservation.org/events/beaverland-author-talk/ SUMMARY:Beaverland Author Talk DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free hybrid author talk featuring Leila Philip an d her book Beaverland.\n\nCo-sponsored with Concord Land Conservation Trus t\, Lincoln Land Conservation Trust\, The Walden Woods Project\, OARS\, an d The River Stewardship Council.\n\nIn Beaverland\, Leila Philip highlight s how this "weird rodent with four orange teeth\, humanoid hands\, poor ey esight\, and a paddle for a tail" plays an outsized role in American histo ry and its future\, with major economic and environmental contributions.\n \nPhilip is the author of award-winning nonfiction books. She was a contri buting columnist at the Boston Globe and is a professor at the College of the Holy Cross.\n\nRSVPs open October 18\, 2025\n\nRSVP for In-Person\n\nR SVP for Zoom\n\nMore about Beaverland:\n\nFrom award-winning writer Leila Philip\, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing\, a b ook that highlights\, through history and contemporary storytelling\, how this unusual rodent has played an oversized role in American history and c ontinues to feature in its future. She follows fur trappers who lead her t hrough waist-high water\, fur traders\, and fur auctioneers\, as well as w ildlife managers\, PETA activists\, Native American environmental vigilant es\, scientists\, engineers\, and the colorful group of activists known as beaver believers.\n\nBeginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in Nor th America\, Leila Philip traces the beaver’s profound influence on our nation’s early economy and feverish western expansion\, which gave the c ountry its first corporations and multi-millionaires. In her pursuit of th is compellingly wonderful rodent\, she introduces us to people whose lives are devoted to the beaver\, including a Harvard scientist from the Blackf eet Reservation in Montana\, who uses drones to create 3-dimensional image s of beaver dams\; and an environmental restoration consultant in the Ches apeake nicknamed the “beaver whisperer.”\n\nWhat emerges is a poignant personal narrative\, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the c ontemporary fur trade\, and an engrossing ecological and historical invest igation of these heroic animals who\, once trapped to the point of extinct ion\, have returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation s tories of the twentieth century. Beautifully written and impeccably resear ched\, BEAVERLAND reveals the profound ways in which one odd animal and th e trade surrounding it has shaped history\, culture\, and our environment. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lincolnconservation.org/wp-content/uploa ds/2025/09/beaverland-flyer-9-23.png CATEGORIES:Guided Walk LOCATION:Goodwin Forum\, Concord Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord \, MA\, 01742\, United States GEO:42.460877;-71.454728 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Goodwin Forum\, Con cord Public Library:geo:42.460877,-71.454728 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR