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Jun/01/2021
2021 Preservation Archaeology Field School Kickoff
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(May 31, 2021)—The 2021 season of our Preservation Archaeology Field School just started, and it’s great to be back in New Mexico with this year’s students.
Some things look a little diffe...
Post
Feb/01/2015
A Chance for Public Comment on the Fracking of the Chacoan Landscape
A Chance for Public Comment on the Fracking of the Chacoan Landscape
The 10-member Farmington District RAC advises the Secretary of the Interior, through the BLM, on a variety of planning and management issues associated with public land management in the BLM's Farmington District. Planned agenda it...
Media
Apr/02/2024
Pages from brand-book-typefaces etc
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May/21/2017
Burning Down the (Pit) House
Burning Down the (Pit) House
In 2015, volunteers joined me in building a half-scale model of a typical dwelling from the Early Agricultural period (2000 B.C.–A.D. 50) in the Tucson Basin. We built the model near our full-scale replica Hohokam pithouse at Steam Pump Ranch in Oro Valley, a public pr...
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Nov/02/2014
Museum of Northern Arizona Selects New Director
Museum of Northern Arizona Selects New Director
The Museum of Northern Arizona has a new director and CEO. Carrie M. Heinonen will be stepping in for Robert Breunig, according to information from the museum. Breunig announced his retirement from the position earlier this year and will be leaving in...
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Jan/15/2017
The Monument Wars
The Monument Wars
In the West, where I currently live, we have our own unfinished wars: the Indian wars. I was reminded of how unfinished they are this fall, when I attended a demonstration led by Native Americans against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protest took place in front of the statehouse ...
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Oct/30/2016
Temporary Halt to Fracking near Chaco Canyon Overturned
Temporary Halt to Fracking near Chaco Canyon Overturned
An effort to temporarily halt drilling across part of one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields has been rejected by a federal appeals court, leaving environmentalists to push their case against hydraulic fracturing in district court. A...
Media
Jan/27/2021
2019 Public Disclosure Copy -ASW
Media
Apr/03/2017
hohokam_fact_sheet_share
Media
Mar/15/2017
Hohokam Fact Sheet
Hohokam Fact Sheet
Post
Dec/04/2016
Native America Victorious at Standing Rock
Native America Victorious at Standing Rock
The Army Corps of Engineers will not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the Missouri river, the army announced on Sunday, handing a major victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe after a months-long campaign against the pipeline....
Location
Sep/09/2016
Romero Ruin (Catalina State Park)
Nestled in the shadows of the Santa Catalina Mountains in a relatively undisturbed stretch of the Sonoran Desert, the Romero Ruin trail in Catalina State Park guides visitors on a short (3/4 mile) walk through several centuries of human history. From the trail, you can see evidence of an ancient Hoh...