SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
FATHER EARTH, MOTHER SKY 2009

Monday Evenings at 6 p.m. at Hotel Santa Fe
1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Call (505) 466-2775 for information

Offered as a Benefit for The New Mexico Environmental Law Center

October 21 Dr. Kirt Kempter
Vulcanologist, Geologist, former Fulbright Scholar, and Instructor,
Georgia’s Geology: Shaping the Abiquiu Landscape Through Time

October 26 Wayne Ranney
Geology Educator, Grand Canyon Field Institute and Author, Carving the Grand Canyon,
Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau

November 2 Stephen R. Fox
Independent Historian and Author, John Muir and His Legacy:The American Conservation Movement
Aldo Leopold and the Southwest: One Hundred Years Later

November 9 Mollie S. Toll
Archaebotanist, Office of Archaeological Studies. Museum of New Mexico
New Mexican Cuisine: Exploring Biological & Cultural Roots of Our Regional Tradition

November 16 Dr. Ted Goebel and Dr. Kelly Graf
Paleo-archaeologists and Professors, Texas A&M University, Associate Director Center for the Study of First Americans
Paleo-Indian Environment of the Great Basin: Bonneville Rockshelter

November 23 Mike Landis
Hydrologist El Paso, Texas
Salt Cedars, Willow Flycatchers, and Strange Bedfellows:Riparian Restoration Below Elephant Butte

November 30 Dr. Paul Minnis
Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma and Co-Author (with Michael E. Whalen),
The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico
Political Ecology of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua Mexico

December 7 Jeff Boyer
Archaeologist, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
Small Pueblo Social Organization in the Northern Rio Grande

December 14 Connie Eichstaedt
Director, Southwest Seminars, Instructor, Elderhostel-Santa Fe;
Simply Santa Fe; Director, Ceramics Department, Colorado Mountain College;
Ceramic Artist and founder, Apache Canyon Pottery
Connie’s Casa: An Owner Built Passive Solar Adobe Home

$10 PER LECTURE…OR $70 SERIES SUBSCRIPTION FOR 9 LECTURES

10% OF THE NET DONATED THE NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER