Trails 2000 will host a public trail-work day 4 -7 p.m. Wednesday on Chapman Flow Trail.

No experience is necessary. Trails 2000 will provide the tools, gloves, a safety-instructional tool talk and water and snacks for the work crew. Crews will work on a variety of projects to put the finishing touches on the trail in time for the grand-opening celebration from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Participants will meet at the Chapman Hill parking lot.

For more information, Visit www.trails2000.org/2015/06/6-24/.

Native American act to be re-examined

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act will be the topic of a presentation at 7 p.m. July 23 at the Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St., Cortez.

Fort Lewis College anthropology professor Kathleen S. Fine-Dare will present “NAGPRA+25: Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going?” as part of the Four Corners Lecture Series. Fine-Dare will review some of the benchmarks of this legislation through the lens of her own experience working in the early days of compliance for FLC and Mesa Verde National Park and as a college instructor and author.

The latter part of the talk will engage more deeply with the Four Corners Lecture Series theme, “It’s About Time,” in reflecting how it’s time to look more deeply at NAGPRA not only as a set of practices with which to comply but also as an intellectual and political issue tied to state “biopower” practices involving forensic and other treatments of bodies and the remains of the past as they figure in everyday life, reconciliation and ongoing mourning.

Herald Staff