SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
MOTHER EARTH, FATHER SKY 2007

OFFERED AS A BENEFIT FOR THE NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM

October 22 Dr. Eric Blinman
Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
A Southwestern Archaeologist in King Carl’s Court:Human Responses to the Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change

October 29 Dr. Kirt Kempter
Geologist, Vulcanologist, and Fulbright scholar
Antarctica: Past, Present and Future of the Secretive Continent

November 5 Dr. Dick Ford
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology Former Director, Ethnobotanical Laboratory,
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Origins of Maize in the Northern Rio Grande

November 12 Tweeti Blancett
Rancher, Environmental Activist and Advocate
Rip Roaring Ranching and Fighting Oil and Gas

November 19 Laura Watchempino (Acoma Pueblo)
Water Quality Specialist, Attorney, Haaku Water Office, Acoma Pueblo
Protecting the Acoma Cultural Province

November 26 Dutch Salmon
Chairman, Gila Conservation Coalition;New Mexico Game Commissioner, and former Interstate Stream Commissioner
Gila: Saving New Mexico’s Last Wild River

December 3 Michael Scialdone
Wilderness Protection Director, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
Containing Off-Road Vehicle Abuses in our National Forests:The Travel Management Rule

December 10 Honorable Verna Williamson Teller (Isleta Pueblo)
Judge, Pueblo of Isleta, Former Governor, Isleta Pueblo
If You Poison Us: A Native Environmental Perspective

December 17 Emigdio Ballon (Quechua)
Director, Tesuque Agricultural Resources Project, Pueblo of Tesuque
Restoring Indigenous Agriculture