Aztec Ruins monument receives grant for trail
Aztec Ruins National Monument has received a Connecting Trails to Parks grant for 2014.
The park will receive $95,314 to study and develop a part of the historic Old Spanish Trail as part of the North Main Trail Project planned in partnership with the city of Aztec.
The funding also will help tell the story of the Old Spanish Trail in images, waysides and other media.
Connecting Trails to Parks funding is set aside by the National Park Service to link national historic trails to national park units. The city of Aztec, the National Park Service and other partners have planned a pedestrian and bike trail that leads from Aztec’s downtown historic district, across the Animas River and into the national monument.
The project is expected to be completed during the summer of 2014.
Mountain lion exhibit to open in Dolores
The public is invited to a reception for the “Mountain Lion!” exhibit from 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Anasazi Heritage Center, 27501 Colorado Highway 184, Dolores.
Patt Dorsey, local manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, will attend the reception and offer a perspective about human-lion interaction.
“Mountain Lion!” was produced by Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College with help from Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Southern Ute Tribe.
The exhibit will be open through October 2014 and will feature a variety of perspectives about the West’s most elusive predator.
For more information, visit www.co.blm.gov/ahc or call 882-5600.
Herald Staff
