{"id":54590,"date":"2013-04-29T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/heritage-centers-atkins-wins-national-award\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:10:49","slug":"heritage-centers-atkins-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/heritage-centers-atkins-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Center’s Atkins wins national award"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"VICTORIA
VICTORIA ATKINS received the Eric Finstick Stewardship Award.<br><br>Connie Clementson (Tres Rios Field Manager), Lori Armstrong (SW District Manager), Victoria Atkins (Finstick Award Winner), Marietta Eaton (Anasazi Heritage Center & Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Manager)<\/span>Courtesy Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The award recognizes the contribution of BLM employees in managing BLM\u2019s special places, through remembrance of long-time BLM Colorado Wilderness Coordinator Eric Finstick.<\/p>\n

\u201cEric was an exemplary steward of public lands and was dedicated to preserving wilderness and the public\u2019s special places,\u201d said Hankins.<\/p>\n

Atkins earned the award for her service as a BLM archaeologist, interpretive lead and acting center director over the course of her 34-year career, 26 at the Heritage Center. One of her priorities is fostering partnerships and volunteer opportunities with diverse communities to promote stewardship of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. The BLM\u2019s dedicated volunteers are directly responsible for assisting the waves of visitors at the Anasazi Heritage Center<\/p>\n

\u201cVictoria is the essence of the success that we have in education and interpretation in the four corners and the BLM, because of her great efforts and achievements working with people and communities,\u201d said Hankins.<\/p>\n

As an interpretive specialist, Atkins uses her talents to ensure the Anasazi Heritage Center\u2019s exhibits are fresh and engaging for educators, docents and visitors. She also works to provide schools with lessons aligned with the State of Colorado\u2019s Education Standards and Benchmarks to foster an appreciation for museums.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, Atkins was the agency lead in a heritage tourism project with the National Geographic-branded \u201cFour Corners Geotourism MapGuide.\u201d The resulting map elevated Canyons of the Ancients\u2019 status to an internationally-recognized sustainable tourism destination.<\/p>\n

Atkins is also a graduate of the BLM\u2019s 2011 Leadership Academy, where she completed a supervisory detail, extensive course work and a national level project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VICTORIA ATKINS received the Eric Finstick Stewardship Award.<br><br>Connie Clementson (Tres Rios Field Manager), Lori Armstrong (SW District Manager), Victoria Atkins (Finstick Award Winner), Marietta Eaton (Anasazi Heritage Center & Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Manager)Courtesy Photo The award recognizes the contribution of BLM employees in managing BLM\u2019s special places, through remembrance of long-time BLM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[855,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-54590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55130,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590\/revisions\/55130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54590"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=54590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}