Public Events
Visit with Respect Ambassador Spring Training (March 5)
Join our Visit With Respect Ambassador Program!
If hiking and the outdoors sounds like a great combination for volunteering, then join us for a one-day training session. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to be one of our on-the-ground Visit with Respect Ambassadors.
Book Signing with Andrew Gulliford
Join us at the Bears Ears Education Center (BEEC) for a book signing with Andrew Gulliford, following the release of his most recent work Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance.
"Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict among ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states’ rights advocates, and Native American activists.
In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region’s history to illuminate what’s truly at stake in this conflict and distills this geography as a place of refuge and resistance. Gulliford’s engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, stories of Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880, impacts of the Atomic Age, uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Native graves that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century ago.
The book describes how the national monument came about and its deep significance to five native tribes. Bears Ears National Monument is a bellwether for public land issues in the American West. Its recognition will be relevant for years to come."
About the presenter
Andrew Gulliford is professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is an award-winning author whose books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions; and The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes.
This event will be held at the Bears Ears Education Center, and streamed on Zoom. Register below for the Zoom link!
Sand Island Hike
Do you want to go hiking in Bears Ears, while learning more about the region's cultural landscape? Join us for a hike to Sand Island!
We'll be meeting at the Bears Ears Education Center, and carpool down to Sand Island where we will begin our hike.
Make sure to wear comfortable shoes and clothes (layers encouraged - it's been rainy out here!), bring a water bottle and snacks, and your enthusiasm to experience and learn more about the incredible Bears Ears landscape!
Visit with Respect Ambassador Spring Training (March 18)
Join our Visit With Respect Ambassador Program!
If hiking and the outdoors sounds like a great combination for volunteering, then join us for a one-day training session. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to be one of our on-the-ground Visit with Respect Ambassadors.
Memoir Reading with Vaughn Hadenfeldt
Memoir Reading with Vaughn Hadenfeldt / Saturday, March 25th at 6pm MT / Join us at the Bears Ears Education Center or on Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87865775371)
Sand Island Hike
Do you want to go hiking in Bears Ears, while learning more about the region's cultural landscape? Join us for a hike to Sand Island!
We'll be meeting at the Bears Ears Education Center, and carpool down to Sand Island where we will begin our hike.
Make sure to wear comfortable shoes and clothes (layers encouraged - it's been rainy out here!), bring a water bottle and snacks, and your enthusiasm to experience and learn more about the incredible Bears Ears landscape!
BEP Community Catch-Up
Join us on Zoom to celebrate our accomplishments from 2022 and learn what’s on tap for the year ahead.
We can't wait to "see" you on the 28th!
Bears Ears Trivia Night
Join us at the Bears Ears Education Center at 6pm MT for an evening of trivia on the Bears Ears region - see how much you know, meet some new BEP community members, and hopefully learn something new!
Sand Island Hike
Do you want to go hiking in Bears Ears, while learning more about the region's cultural landscape? Join us for a hike to Sand Island!
We'll be meeting at the Bears Ears Education Center, and carpool down to Sand Island where we will begin our hike.
Make sure to wear comfortable shoes and clothes (layers encouraged - it's been rainy out here!), bring a water bottle and snacks, and your enthusiasm to experience and learn more about the incredible Bears Ears landscape!
Carol Patterson on "The Katsina Panel Discussion"
Carol Patterson on "The Katsina Panel Discussion"
April 8th at 6pm MT at the Bears Ears Education Center or on Zoom