“Whether we consciously acknowledge that we are part of this natural world that we live in or not, we are part of the natural world. We can not live, any of us, without acknowledging that.”
John Wesley Powell - geological survey map
By Jack Loeffler
Several years ago, my friend author William deBuys was writing his fine book, Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell. He had selected several illustrations for the book including a map of the drainage areas of the arid West rendered...
New Mexico-fairest of them all. High country, thin air, clear light, drier than a skeleton’s sense of humor, sparsely vegetated, sparsely populated, land of multi-ethnic mestizaje, outlaw country, haven for ex-patriots, artists, writers, bohemians, beatniks and hippies; proving ground for scientists...
Tue 9/28/2010: Watersheds As Commons Keynote Lecture
Sat 10/16/2010: Watersheds as Commons Lecture
Wed 11/10/2010: The Quivira Coalition’s 9th Annual Conference
Lore of the Land would like to express our gratitude to the Christensen Fund, the New Mexico Humanities Council, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bureau of Land Management, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, and the New Mexico History Museum at the Palace of the Governors for funding our projects past and present.
