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 Return to Lectures Page