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Mesa Verde Foundation and Museum Association Offer Joint
Membership
The Mesa Verde Museum Association (MVMA) and the Mesa Verde
Foundation (MVF) are both nonprofit partners dedicated to the protection and
preservation of Mesa
Verde National
Park. Together we are offering the opportunity to
support the work of both our organizations through a unique joint membership!
Existing MVMA members are now automatically "Mesa Verde Association
(MVA)" members, with a portion of your dues supporting the work of the
Foundation as well as the Museum Association. MVA members receive many
benefits, such as a 20% discount when shopping in Museum Association stores and
by phone or mail, an annual wall calendar, discounts at most cooperating
association bookstores in public lands across the country. And now, all MVA
members also receive a 20% discount on Mesa Verde Institute programs (excluding Cliff Palace Twilight Tours)!
The Mesa Verde Foundation funds
capital improvements, projects, and educational endeavors for Mesa Verde National Park. MVF projects include the
construction of a new Visitor and Research
Center near the park's entrance, and
the remodeling of the existing Far View Visitor
Center into a Tribal Cultures
Center to enhance
understanding of the connection between Ancestral Puebloans and contemporary
Native American tribes.
The Mesa Verde Museum Association provides educational and interpretive material to visitors of Mesa Verde National Park through an active publishing program
and the operation of retail bookstores online, in the park, and in Cortez, CO.
Our services enhance the visitor experience and promote stewardship of Mesa
Verde's world-renowned archeological resources and natural landscapes. Proceeds
from all Association operations are donated to the park's interpretive, research,
and education programs.
MVA members are part of an important support team who
promote preservation of the Mesa Verde Puebloan culture and the natural
resources associated with Mesa
Verde National
Park. By working together we develop products and
sponsor events and projects that enhance the visitor experience.
Not a member yet? It's easy to join the Mesa Verde
Association! Click here to enroll today. Your dues are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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Welcome to "Verde Views," the e-newsletter for Mesa Verde Association members and friends. This periodic publication will keep you
informed about Association news and events, park happenings, new products and
special sales.
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Mesa Verde Welcomes 2009 Colorado
Preserve America Youth Summit
More than one hundred
Colorado and Hopi middle and high school students
participated in the 2009 Colorado Preserve America Youth Summit last month,
which culminated with an overnight stay in Mesa Verde National Park. The summit was geared to
help youth learn about culture, site and land stewardship on public lands. The
students learned about cultural sites managed by the Bureau of Land Management and
U.S. Forest Service, along with the National Park Service, which allowed them
to look at sustainability, opportunities, and stewardship (S.O.S.) as it
relates to Southwest archaeology. They also had the unique opportunity to give
stewardship recommendations to public land managers based on what they
experienced during the summit.
The trip itself made
history because it is the only program in the nation that directly involves
youth in decision-making about historic places, according to Colorado's First Lady Jeannie Ritter,
Honorary Chair. Students applied to participate and received scholarships made
available by the program sponsors.
The Youth Summit was
a collaborative project funded by Colorado Preservation, Inc., Colorado
Historical Society - State Historical Fund, National Park Service, Anshutz
Family Foundation, Ballantine Family Foundation, Bureau of Land Management,
Colorado Humanities, Teaching with Primary Sources, and the U.S. Forest
Service. Students also received gift bags with items from the sponsors and the
Mesa Verde Museum Association, Anasazi
Heritage Center,
Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center and ARAMARK.
Read the article entitled, "It Will Matter Forever" by
summit participants Connor Pearson and Rachel Israelsen by clicking here
Click here to review students' blog posts about their
summit experience.
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Visit Mesa
Verde for Free August 15-16!
The National Park Service is continuing to offer special fee-free
weekends this summer to encourage Americans seeking affordable vacations to
visit our national treasures. "Tourism income helps America's economic recovery,"
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said when he announced the free-admission
weekends program. Most Americans live less than a day's drive from a park. Nationwide,
parks last year attracted more that 275 million recreation visits. Spending by
non-local visitors provided $10.6 billion for local economies, supporting more
that 213,000 jobs, not counting National Park Service jobs.
There are 391 national park units across the country in 49
states; 147 of them charge an entry fee. During the peak summer season in Mesa Verde
National Park, the
entrance fee is $15 per vehicle and $8 per motorcycle. These entrance fees will
be waived on August 15 and 16, 2009.
While visitors will still need to purchase the $3 ticket if
they want to attend ranger-led tours of Balcony House, Cliff Palace
and Long House, there are several free sites including Spruce Tree House, Step House
and the Mesa Top Loop sites. Tour tickets may be purchased at the Morefield
Ranger Station from 5 to 8:30 p.m. daily, and at the Far View Visitor Center
from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Special Cliff Palace Twilight Tour tickets are
also sold exclusively at the Visitor Center Bookstore for $10 per person.
Rangers depict historical figures from the park's past in this unique 90-minute
program, which is limited to 20 participants. Presented by the Mesa Verde
Institute in partnership with the National Park Service, proceeds from the
Cliff Palace Twilight Tours benefit Mesa
Verde National
Park.
For more information about fee-free weekends or MVI's
Twilight Tours, please call the MVMA office at 970-529-4445 or toll-free at
800-305-6053.
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Booksigning with Children's Author Betty Bauer
 During the park's free-admission weekend on August 15 and
16, a booksigning with noted author Betty Bauer will be offered by MVMA in
cooperation with the National Park Service. Betty will sign copies of Bison and Burro: From Here to One Hundred -
and Fast!! in the Chapin
Mesa Museum
lobby from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Suitable for children
of all ages, Bison and Burro is a delightful journey from the grasslands of Kansas to the Four Corners.As they travel along
in a Jeep commandeered from a park ranger, these animal friends count by fives
the things they find or see along the way.
Betty Bauer writes children's stories about raising sheep
and about traveling through national parks and on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
She often accompanies study tours for the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. Betty and her husband live in Overland Park,
Kansas, and are part-owners of a conservation
ranch near Fort Collins, Colorado.
Bison and Burro will be available
for sale at the MVMA Museum store during the event, or click here to purchase your copies in advance. |
Craig Childs Headlines August Free Programs
The free Four Corners Lecture Series welcomes back critically-acclaimed
author Craig Childs, whose titles include House
of Rain, The Animal Dialogues, The
Way Out, and many more. Mr. Childs will speak at 7 p.m. on August 8 at the
Morefield Campground Amphitheater in Mesa
Verde National
Park on his chosen topic, "Living in an
Archaeological Landscape." On August 23, Connie Garcia will present her
program, "The People Shall Continue," at 1 p.m. at the Anasazi Heritage
Center. Traditional
rehabilitation vs. Whiteman's rehabilitation will be the subject of Art
Neskahi's August 25 talk at 7 p.m. at the Cortez Cultural
Center. Michael Kabotie
and Mark Varien will round out the August slate with "Journey of the Human
Spirit" at Crow Canyon Archeological
Center, August 27 at 6:30
p.m.
The Four Corners Lecture Series offers free programs for the
public from May through October at a variety of locations in Cortez, Dolores, Durango, and Mesa Verde
National Park. It is
sponsored by the Mesa Verde Institute (an educational program of the Mesa Verde
Museum Association), the Anasazi Heritage Center,
ARAMARK, Cortez Cultural
Center, Crow Canyon
Archaeological Center,
Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies, KSJD Dry Land Community Radio,
and the National Park Service.
We hope to see you at a program this year! Click here to
view the entire schedule.
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Now Accepting International Orders Online
For the convenience of our international
customers, we have modified our online store software to automatically
calculate international shipping rates! We ship all international orders via
Global Priority Mail. All orders, whether domestic or overseas, usually ship
within two business days of order receipt. As always, our online bookstore
offers the 24-hour convenience of shopping from your computer and the security
of PayPal when you place your orders over the internet. We add new products to
our webstore all the time, so be sure to check back often!
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New Product: A Century of Archeological Research
at
Mesa Verde
National Park
In 2006, Mesa
Verde National
Park celebrated 100 years of existence as the
first national park set aside expressly to protect cultural resources. As part
of that celebration, in May 2006, the park and Mesa Verde Museum Association
hosted a four-day symposium featuring many of the most prominent figures in
southwestern archeology and related fields.
 Speakers looked back at the first century of archeological
study throughout the Southwest. They looked in more detail at the previous
decade, the influences of new technology, new theories, and new techniques for
stabilizing sites and structures. And they looked forward, considering the
benefits and applications of continuously changing technology as well as cultural
and political influences.
MVMA is proud to offer this new collection of symposium
presenters' findings, conclusions, and recommendations, captured in an easily
searchable pdf document. Users can read each of the papers and abstracts
complete with associated illustrations as presented at the symposium. Without
having to rely on an index, you can also search the entire CD by topic or name,
finding all related references and discussions.
A must for both professional and amateur archeologists, this
CD retails for $19.99. As always, Mesa Verde Association members receive a 20%
discount when you order by phone or mail, bringing your price to just $15.99.
Click here or
call 1-800-305-6053 to order your Symposium Proceedings CD today!
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The Mesa Verde Association is a joint membership program of
the Mesa Verde Museum Association and the Mesa Verde Foundation. Your MVA
membership supports both of these 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
The Mesa Verde Museum Association (tax ID 84-1404606) provides educational and
interpretive material to visitors of Mesa Verde National Park through an active
publishing program and the operation of retail bookstores online, in the park,
and in Cortez, CO. Our services enhance the visitor experience and promote
stewardship of Mesa Verde's world-renowned archeological resources and natural
landscapes. Proceeds from all Association operations are donated to the park's
interpretive, research, and education programs.
The Mesa Verde Foundation (tax ID 84-046967)
funds capital improvements, projects, and educational endeavors for Mesa Verde
National Park. Our
projects include construction of a new Visitor and Research
Center near the park's entrance and
remodeling the existing Far View Visitor
Center into a Tribal Cultures
Center to enhance
understanding of the connection between the Ancestral Puebloans and
contemporary Native American tribes.
You are receiving this email because you are a member of the
Mesa Verde Association or because you purchased a product from the Mesa Verde
Museum Association. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add
info@mesaverde.org to your address book today.
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