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2) Ill Wind
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It is whispered that the Old Ones still haunt Mesa Verde-the restless spirits of the Anasazi, who carved their homes in the mountain's face eight centuries ago ... and then disappeared from the Earth. Newly assigned national parks ranger Anna Pigeon seeks solace from her own personal demons in the ancient cave dwellings of a vanished Native American civilization. But an inexplicable illness affecting visitors to the popular Colorado landmark has dragged...
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In 2019, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program repeated Anderson (2001) density estimates for the entire milkvetch (Astragalus schmolliae) population on Chapin Mesa within Mesa Verde National Park (MEVE). A total of 197-100 x 10 m belt transects were established in 2001 (one year before a fire burned nearly 40% of the population) and repeated in 2019. Our observations present multiple hypothesis as to why the burned areas have become less favorable...
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Early Mesa Verdeans raised their children, cultivated their crops, and carried out a way of life that had as its primary tenet that they were part of nature, not the architect of nature. The lessons they left could offer lessons today to educators, doctors, astronomers, farmers, and builders.
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Climb the arid slopes of Colorado to discover the cave dwellings of the ancestral Pueblo Indians. Why were the homes built in the cliffs? How were they used and why did the Pueblo move? Travel along with scientists to find out how their discoveries shed light on the mysteries surrounding this important historical site. Unlocking the secrets of the past is just an artifact away!
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"Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they're worth killing over"--Provided by publisher.
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Mesa Verde National Park was America's first cultural park and also the world's first cultural heritage park. Created in 1906, it preserves the sites and materials of the prehistoric Puebloan people. Located in southwestern Colorado near the famous Four Corners, where the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet, the magnificent Mesa Verde is situated in Montezuma County, just south of Cortez and directly west of Durango. The park's...
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In September of 1978 the World Heritage Convention of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and cultural Organization selected Mesa Verde National Park to be a WORLD HERITAGE CULTURAL SITE in recognition of the significance of the ancient Pueblo culture that flourished here between the sixth and thirteenth centuries. this is indeed a unique honor of international importance, in that Mesa Verde was one of the first seven sites selected in the...
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Following in the wake of what one noted scientist called 'transients who neither revered nor cared for the ruins as symbols of the past, ' the Wetherill family became the earliest students of Mesa Verde. Their careful excavations and record-keeping helped preserve key information, leading to a deeper understanding of the people who built and occupied the cliff dwellings. As devout Quakers, they felt they were predestined to protect the historic sites...
19) Cliff-hanger
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Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.