The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College continues its summer lecture series, \u201cWomen in the Southwest,\u201d with a presentation from Marietta Eaton titled \u201cAlice Eastwood: Pioneer Botanist in the Four Corners\u201d on Wednesday, July 25, at 1:30 p.m. in the center\u2019s Lyceum Room 120.<\/p>\n
\u201cEastwood was a botanist with a great love of adventure,\u201d center spokeswoman Julie Tapley-Booth said in a news release. \u201cShe is the embodiment of female equality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her colleagues included Alfred Russel Wallace, known for conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection, and Asa Gray, the Harvard professor who wrote the seminal manual on American botany.<\/p>\n
Eastwood began her career in Denver and collected plants during expeditions to the Four Corners, based at the Wetherills\u2019 Alamo Ranch in Mancos. She became the curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences, a post she held for over 50 years.<\/p>\n
Eaton served as district archaeologist for the North Kaibab Ranger District for 15 years, served as a science adviser for the Bureau of Land Management for over a decade. She currently is the manager of Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum in Dolores.<\/p>\n
The lecture and parking are free.<\/p>\n