Tents, night-vision goggles, bear tracking kits – and even books: America’s first nature library opens

As well as books, the new facility in Colorado offers hundreds of kits to connect people with the natural world.

We asked five of the first visitors what they thought of it Mark Fink knows exactly why he opened the first public nature library in the US. “There are a lot of barriers for people to access nature here. We want people to learn about the birds and the plants in their own back yard and to appreciate that you don’t need a three-day camping trip in the…