Durango City Council has adopted a Sustainability Action Plan for Internal Operations.

Council adopted the plan at the July 21 meeting. The plan is intended to elevate the city’s internal sustainability performance through implementing a strategic and systematic approach to enhancing organizational resiliency. In adopting the Sustainability Action Plan, the city seeks to be a leader in addressing these challenges.

The Sustainability Action Plan for Internal Operations is available at www.durangogov.org/sustainability. For more information, call Mary Beth Miles at 375-5063 or email [email protected].

Wastewater-treatment plant to be discussed

The city of Durango will host a public workshop at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Smith Council Chambers at City Hall, 949 East Second Ave.

The consulting firm that conducted the analysis, Mulhern, MRE will present the findings from the recently completed Wastewater Treatment Plant alternative site analysis study. Similar information will be presented at the City Council study session at 4 p.m. Tuesday. The primary purpose of the study was to evaluate the technical and financial feasibility and efficacy of relocating the city’s wastewater-treatment plant downstream of the current location.

For more information, call Mary Beth Miles at 375-5063 or email [email protected].

Rotary Club to learn about bees

Tina Sebestyen of Four Corners Beekeepers will speak to the Rotary Club of Durango at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.

Speaking about honeybees, Sebestyen will explain what they need from beekeepers, and she will present on some discoveries made about how bees live and die.

Sebestyen has been a beekeeper for 10 years, keeping between 30 and 40 colonies with an average success rate of 80 percent. As founder and president of the Four Corners Beekeepers Association, she mentors many beekeepers. Visitors are welcome.

For more information, call Bruce Rodman at 385-7899.

Garden club to meet Wednesday

The Garden Club of Durango will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive in Bayfield.

The library was named the 2014 “Best Small Library in America” by the Gates Foundation. Judy Poe, community liaison, will conduct a tour and program explaining the library’s features that contributed to this award, including the outdoor “Living Library,” with a 24 bed community garden.

For more information, including carpooling, call Jane Pedersen at 385-5266.

Archaeological society to meet Thursday

The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.

Michael Berry, president of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists and director of the Dominguez Archaeological Research Group, will present “Southwestern Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Database Websites.” The public is invited.

For more information, visit sjbas.org.

Kennewick Man to be discussed Thursday

Dr. Lillian Wakeley will present a talk about the 1996 discovery of the remains of 9,000 year old Kennewick Man and the resulting legal battles fought under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Far View Lodge at Mesa Verde National Park.

The Kennewick Man remains were claimed by several Native American tribes under NAGPRA, but legal actions intensified as questions arose about whether a preponderance of evidence identified the remains as Native American under the law and whether or not NAGPRA applied.

For more information, visit www.mesaverde.org/four-corners-lecture-series.

Herald Staff