Southwest Seminars Presents
Mother Earth Father Sky 2010
Perspectives on the Environment, Ecology, and Natural Sciences of the American West & New Mexico






















          Monday Evenings at 6pm at Hotel Santa Fe

        To honor The New Mexico Environmental Law Center
     With the gracious hospitality and support of Hotel Santa Fe, A Picuris Pueblo Enterprise

October 11     David Witt
		 Art Historian, Curator, and Author: Spirit Ascendant: The Art and Life of Patrocinio Barela;       
                        Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin; Taos Moderns: Art of the New; The Taos
                        Artists: A Historical Narrative and Biographical Dictionary; Ernest Thompson Seton:
                        The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist; 
 		The Life, Work and Conservation Ethic of Ernest Thompson Seton

October 18 	Dr. William Lipe
		Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Washington State University, Archaeologist and
		Board Member, Crow Canyon Archeological Center, Cortez, Co.
		Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell

October 25	Craig Childs
		Writer, Adventurer, and Author, House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across 		the American Southwest; Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession; 
		The Way Out: A True Story of Ruin and Survival; The Desert Cries: A Season of Flash Floods in 		a Dry Land; The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild; Soul of Nowhere; 		The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert; Grand 		Canyon: Time Below the Rim; Crossing Paths: Personal Encounters with Animals in the Wild; 		Stone Desert: Explorations in Canyonlands National Park.
		Finders Keepers: A Journey Through the Underworld of the Ancient Artifact Culture

November 1	Dr. Deborah Gangloff 
		President, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Co.
		Cultural and Ecological Importance of  Our Trees and Forests 

November. 8 	Jack Loeffler
		Aural Ecologist, Environmental writer, Activist, and Author, Adventures With Ed; A 		Portrait of Abbey; Headed Upstream: Interviews with Iconoclasts; Healing the West: 		Voices of Culture and Habitat; La Musica de los Vecinos: Hispano Folk Music of the 		Rio Grande del Norte; Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews;  
		Watershed as Commons

November 15	Dr. Richard I. Ford
		Ethnobotanist, Archaeologist, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and 	Former Curator
                      of Ethnology and Ethnobotany, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan; 
                      and Editor, The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany
		Once a River of Important Food Resources: Century of Change on the Rio Grande

November. 22 Michael J. Robinson 
		Conservation Advocate, Center for Biological Diversity and Author, 
                       Predatory Bureaucracy: The  Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West
		Challenges of Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction 
			
November 29	 Vincent Barrett (VB) Price
		Writer, Editor, Poet, historian, teacher, political/environmental columnist, 
                       and  Author:Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World; Chaco Trilogy: 	Poems; 
                       The University of New Mexico; Co-editor (with Baker Morrow) Canyon Gardens: The
                       Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest and  
                       Anasazi Architecture and American Design 
		Water Warfare in the Urban West

December 6	Baker Morrow, FASLA
		Co-Editor (with VB Price), Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of  the  
                      American Southwest; Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes and 
                      Anasazi Architecture and American Design; and Registered Landscape Architect               
		Canyon Gardens: Ancient Pueblo Landscapes 

December 13	Doug Fine
		Adventurer, Journalist,  Goat Herder, and 
		Author, Farewell My Subaru
		Petroleum Free in One Year

$12 at the Door or $80 for the series of 10 lectures



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