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Bandelier satellite image, December 2015: Bandelier's topgraphy can be seen most clearly in winter, with less vegetation obscuring it. Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km 2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico.
For National Park Week, which this year runs from April 20-28, here are some hikes that offer different views of Bandelier's beauty that can be found beyond the park's main loop. Frijoles Canyon Trail
Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico was named for him, as his studies established the significance of this area for understanding ancient indigenous cultures of the Tuyongi canyon. Bandelier Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico was named after him. Bandelier was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1881. [3]
He produced fourteen pastel artworks from 1935 to 1936 for Bandelier National Monument, works of art which remain in the Bandelier museum collections. [ 4 ] In the 1940s, Naumer settled on an artists' community called San Sebastian Ranch in the Santa Fe area on land purchased by Harper Henry from the painter Fremont Ellis .
Negotiations over a new monument were long and contentious, but finally, on February 11, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the new Bandelier National Monument, naming it for Adolph Bandelier who had died recently. [3]
Chapman and Hewett worked at major archaeological digs in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, including Casas Grandes in Chihuahua, Mexico and Bandelier National Monument. When Hewett was away from the museum for extended periods of time, Chapman was the acting director. [ 4 ]
The fire was human-caused (likely a spark from a motorcycle) on the afternoon of 16 June 1977, in Los Alamos County. [1] Before it was contained one week later, the fire burned 15,444 acres (62.5 km 2) of Bandelier National Monument and part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where it reached K-site and S-site, two facilities used to fabricate and test chemical explosives.
Velarde's work is exhibited in public and private collections including the Bandelier National Monument museum, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Avery Collection at the Arizona State Museum, the Ruth and Charles Elkus Collection of Native American Art, and in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.