Colorado Public Lands: Preserving & Protecting Our Greatest Legacy
Andrew Gulliford, Ph.D.
Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis College teaching on . wilderness, national parks, Western history, and environmental history. He is the author of America’s Country Schools, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions, and Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, which won the Colorado Book Award. Dr. Gulliford has had led tours across the West by canoe, raft, horseback, van, cruise ship, private train, and private jet for the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Great Old Broads for Wilderness, History Colorado, Canyon Country Discovery Center, and the San Juan Mountains Association.
Dr. Gulliford has received the National Individual Volunteer Award from the U.S. Forest Service for wilderness education, and a certificate of recognition from the Secretary of Agriculture for “outstanding contributions to America’s natural and cultural resources.” For a decade he held a federal appointment to the Southwest Colorado Resources Advisory Council of the Bureau of Land Management.
November 5, 2019
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Doubletree Hotel, Durango
Tickets are $20.00/person and scholarships are available.
Please RSVP by October 31st, 2019.