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Greetings,
Grasslands will feature the southwestern landscape photography of Michael P. Berman and Tucson-based author and conservationist, Charles Bowden. Mr. Berman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 for his work on Grasslands: The Chihuauan Desert Project. Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970’s. His activism helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona.
The Conference will
include an afternoon workshop on wildlife and grasslands
conservation and two short films on wilderness: Otero
Mesa-Fighting to Protect America’s Wildest Grassland and
Wilderness, the Soul of New Mexico. The Bosque School is located in NW Albuquerque at 4000 Learning Rd. off Coors Blvd. just south of Montano Rd.
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The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance will be
hosting its 11th Annual Wilderness Conference on Grasslands:
Protecting Otero Mesa on Saturday, October 24 (11AM-3PM), at the
Bosque School in Albuquerque.
Bowden
and Berman have collaborated on Inferno (2006) and the soon to
be released Trinity, from University of Texas Press. The authors
will be available for book signings during the Conference. Both
books combine photography and text to re-enforce the
“reality” of the southwestern desert as places
“to taste what we fear and devour what we are. We need
these places to be animals because unless we are animals we are
nothing at all. That is the price of being a civilized
dude.”
