Durango Nature Studies to hold film fundraiser
Mountain Film on Tour, Nature Studies’ fifth annual fall fundraiser, will take place Nov. 21 at the Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the films will start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door and $10 students and kids.
At 5:30 p.m., there will be beer from Steamworks Brewing Co., wine from 6th Street Liquor, burritos from Zia Taqueria and desserts from Hot Tomatoes. There will be a silent auction.
Doors will open for the Mountain Film on Tour Kid’s Film Matinee at 2:30 p.m. The films will be shown from 3 to 4 p.m.
Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door for kids; and $10 in advance and $13 at the door for adults. At 2:30 p.m., there will be pizza from Fired Up Pizza, drinks from Zuberfizz and desserts from Hot Tomatoes.
People can purchase tickets at Maria’s Bookshop, Zia Taqueria (north and south), 4Corners River Sports and Pine Needle Mountaineering.
For more information, visit www.durangonaturestudies.org/mountainfilm.htm.
Logging to increase traffic on Beaver Meadows Road
The public should expect to encounter logging trucks this winter on the Beaver Meadows Road (Forest Road No. 135) east of Bayfield. As many as five loads of timber could be hauled per day from the Beaver Aspen Timber Sale.
The Beaver Meadows Road will be plowed for snow removal to accommodate the logging trucks. Groomed snowmobile routes in the area will be reconfigured to avoid conflict with the winter road use.
The 300-acre Beaver Aspen Timber Sale is designed to produce saleable timber products and regenerate aspen stands. Aspen logs will be hauled to the Aspen Wall Wood Mill in Dolores and an excelsior mill in Hooper. Conifer logs may be hauled to mills in Colorado and New Mexico.
For more information, call 884-2512.
Durango library garden receives habitat award
The Durango Botanical Society as an Audubon Society member in the Audubon Rockies division has accepted an Audubon Society’s Habitat Hero Garden Award.
This garden met all of the criteria for this status and will be in future studies that include bird and butterfly migration and habitat studies in the Library Demonstration Garden.
This garden was built on a former Mercy Hospital debris site next to the Durango Public Library along the Animas River Trail. The award recognizes the garden’s contributions to reclamation, “wildscaping” – the use of native and water-wise plants to restore vital habitat for birds, pollinators and other wildlife.
For more information, visit www.habhero.org or www.durangobotanicalsociety.com. Studies will be posted on the website during the 2016 garden season.
Herald Staff
