Gila wilderness centennial event calendar

After a year of planning, the Gila Wilderness Centennial is upon us. Here are the remaining activities:

May 30, 2024              Wilderness Photography Talk and Photo Display

                                    Michael P. Berman

Silco Theater 311 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM

6:30 – 8pm

May 30 – June 3         Wilderness Student Prose, Poetry, and Art Exhibition

We have 135 pieces of Prose, Poetry and Art from students attending Hot Springs HS, Truth of Consequences, Stout Elementary, Silver City and Aldo Leopold Charter Middle & High Schools in Silver City. The Exhibition is on display in the lobby of the Silco Theater.

Silco Theater 311 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM

*** Viewing is while the Silco is open 1 hour before activities and during.

May 31, 2024              Wilderness Speaker Series

                                    Wilderness : Explorations in Understanding

A diverse panel seeks to define what Wilderness is, catalogue its

formation, and explore varying perspectives on who it serves and leaves out

Speakers:      

Curt Meine      Aldo Leopold biographer

Priscilla Solis Ybarra – Latinx and environmental writer and professor

Leeanna Torres – Gila trout biologist

Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM

9 am – 11:45 pm

 

A Century of Wilderness

We explore the foundations of Wilderness, how it spread across the world and understand the shape of modern Wilderness management.

Speakers:

Melissa Green – Gila Trail steward

Doug Scott – Wilderness historian

Doug Hulmes – Professor emeritus of environmental studies

Chris Barns – BLM Wilderness Specialist

Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM

1pm – 2:30pm

 

Land Relationships Across Cultures

This panel seeks to explore what lessons we can learn from other stewards’ best practices.

 

Speakers:

Theresa Pasqual – Executive Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs for Crow Canyon Archeological Center

Michael Darrow – Fort Sill Apache historian

Corey Torivio – Continental Divide Trail Coalition

Grant County Convention Center, 3031 US 180, Silver City, NM

6 – 8 pm

June 1 – June 2           Gila Wilderness 100th Anniversary Art Exhibition

                                    Four Artists Celebrating Wilderness

Exhibition of four Silver City artists

Light Art Space, 209 W. Broadway St., Silver City, NM

11am – 5pm June 1st

10am – 2pm June 2nd

June 2 – June 7           Gila Wilderness Observed

11 am – 2pm

Francis McCray Gallery WNMU campus

Featuring the works of local Artists:

Phillip Conners

Jan Haley

Michael Berman

Jay Hemphill

June 1st                        Gila Film School Centennial Premier

Seven short documentary films by the Gila Film School students NMSU

Silco Theater 311 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM

4:30pm – 7:30pm

 

For a complete listing of other events including fieldtrips and talks in outlying communities please go to fs.usda.gov/detail/gila

Please come join our communities in celebrating the Gila Wilderness 100th birthday.  

 

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Steve Morgan
Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan is a retired landscape architect who spent most of his 35 year career in Arizona and New Mexico. His current career is giving Chautauquas or Living History performances, as Aldo Leopold. He happily calls Kingston, New Mexico his home now, nestled in the Black Range Mountains only 3 miles from the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. His writings are strongly shaped by Aldo Leopold’s love of the wild lands, with respect and compassion for the land – the soils, waters, plants and animals. Steve’s compassion for nature is evident by his strong, driving desire to open people’s eyes to the marvel and joy of experiencing the natural world.

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