Ken Logan, mammals researcher for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, will present “Researching Puma Populations in Western Colorado” at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Anasazi Heritage Center, 27501 Colorado Highway 184 in Dolores.

Logan’s presentation highlights his 10-year cougar research program, the Uncompahgre Plateau Cougar Population Project.

He has been involved in cougar research, including population ecology, behavior, social organization, cougar-prey relationships and cougar-human interactions since 1981 in four Western states.

Following the presentation, attendees can explore the “Mountain Lion!” exhibit, which addresses the growing issue of human encounters with mountain lions.

For more information, visit www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc/exhibits_and_events.html.

Rotary Club of Durango to meet Tuesday

Jay Harrison, director of the Center Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, will speak about the center and future plans to the Rotary Club of Durango at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.

Harrison is a historian of the early Southwest and the colonial era in Mexico.

His research interests include the greater Spanish colonial world made within indigenous zones of the Americas with a focus on the popular and formal cultures of the northern reaches of Spanish activity in what is now the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Visitors are welcome.

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

County commissioners to meet Tuesday

The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners will host a planning meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday at La Plata County Courthouse, 1060 East Second Ave.

The commissioners will consider amendments to the La Plata County land- use code that will delete separate marijuana land- use permit regulations and will instead permit marijuana businesses and establishments under the same provisions as other land use projects in the county.

Immediately following the planning meeting, the commissioners will hold a special business meeting to consider proposed licensing fees for medical marijuana businesses and retail marijuana establishments.

In addition, the commissioners will hear the second reading and will formally consider Ordinance 2014-02, which will adopt code amendments to Chapter 7 of the La Plata County Code.

The amendments regulate and allow for the licensing of all medical marijuana businesses allowed for under Amendment 20 and regulate and allow for the licensing of all retail marijuana establishments allowed for under Amendment 64.

The ordinance also will rescind the ban on medical marijuana centers and the temporary ban on all retail marijuana establishments.

Copies of the ordinance and code amendments are available at www.co.laplata.co.us/departments_and_elected_officials/administration/marijuana_licensing.

For more information, call Kathleen Lyon at 382-8600 or email [email protected].

Durango Garden Club to meet Wednesday

The Garden Club of Durango will meet Wednesday.

The group will visit the gardens of local landscape designer Edie Swan. Participants should meet at 12:30 p.m. at the Santa Rita Garden to carpool.

For more information, call Lee Hayes at 259-1491.

Health screenings available to miners

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will offer free, confidential health screenings to coal miners from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. June 13 at the King II Mine, 6473 County Road 120 in Hesperus.

The health screenings are open to all coal miners including current and former, underground and surface miners.

The screenings are intended to provide early detection of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung, a serious but preventable occupational lung disease in coal miners caused by breathing respirable coal mine dust.

The screenings will be provided at a mobile testing unit. and will include a work history questionnaire, a chest X-ray, and spirometry testing.

Blood-pressure screening will be offered as well. The process takes about 25 minutes.

For more information and to schedule an appointment, visit www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/ORDS/ecwhsp.html or call (888) 480-4042.

Herald Staff