SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
FATHER EARTH, MOTHER SKY 2010

MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM 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 TaosArtists: 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 lecture