{"id":15850,"date":"2025-11-03T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cowgirl-heidi-redd-to-discuss-conservation-memoir-at-mancos-library\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:52:23","slug":"cowgirl-heidi-redd-to-discuss-conservation-memoir-at-mancos-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cowgirl-heidi-redd-to-discuss-conservation-memoir-at-mancos-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowgirl Heidi Redd to discuss conservation memoir at Mancos Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4ab5ba9e-3768-47be-8c0a-52c82e468889&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"The Mancos Public Library has refinanced the construction loans taken out for the new building. The library originally took out the loans in 2007 and 2009, at interest rates of 5.4 and 6.25 percent. The new lease purchase loan is for $1.24 million, at a fixed interest rate of 3.08 percent.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Mancos Public Library has refinanced the construction loans taken out for the new building. The library originally took out the loans in 2007 and 2009, at interest rates of 5.4 and 6.25 percent. The new lease purchase loan is for $1.24 million, at a fixed interest rate of 3.08 percent.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Humphries Poli Architects<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Redd will discuss her book, \u201cA Cowgirl\u2019s Conservation Journey: Stories from the Dugout Ranch,\u201d on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Mancos Public Library. The event begins at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The book, co-authored with Larisa Bowen, chronicles Redd\u2019s life at the Dugout Ranch and her work with The Nature Conservancy to protect the ranch\u2019s desert landscapes, mountains and cattle operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article about Redd published by A Little Herstory (provided by the library), she is a fifth-generation cowgirl. She married into the Indian Creek Cattle Co. and Dugout Ranch, founded in 1889. After divorcing Robert Redd in 1994, she fought off subdivision threats before The Nature Conservancy acquired the land. Soon after, the Dugout Ranch launched the Canyonlands Research Center in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Utah State University and the Division of Wildlife Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Redd retired from daily ranching in 2015, handing operations to her son Matt Redd and daughter-in-law Kristen. She remains the ranch\u2019s ambassador and is a National Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>details Redd\u2019s journey at the Dugout Ranch in Utah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[639,28,83,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-book","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77162,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850\/revisions\/77162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15850"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}