University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Natural History<\/a>. They were in Montezuma County for a two-week series of educational workshops at Mesa Verde National Park, part of a developing partnership between the two museums.<\/p>\n\u201cWe decided, on an off-day, to work here and see how it is outside the park,\u201d one student, Kelsie Gering, said.<\/p>\n
Families went to the booths to get hands-on insights into the way certain plants and animals, like the yucca, have influenced life in the Four Corners since the time of the Ancestral Puebloans.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Coon, the Boulder museum\u2019s program developer, said she hoped to bring many more workshops and events to Mesa Verde and the surrounding area in the future. For now, her students\u2019 workshops will be held at the park through June 9.<\/p>\n
Other groups, including Montezuma County outdoor businesses like Osprey Packs and river-themed organizations from around the Four Corners, like Canyon Country Youth Corps, hosted vendor booths around the main stage, and people of all ages participated in activities such cornhole, pottery painting and volleyball. But for many festivalgoers, the event was all about the music.<\/p>\n
For the Wolf family, of Cortez, the festival has been an annual tradition for years. It\u2019s where they adopted their rescue dog, Lucy, five years ago, and Monique Wolf said they still bring her every year because the event is so dog-friendly.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody kind of knows each other,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice social event.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family said their only complaint about the festival was that it only lasts one day.<\/p>\n
The Dolores River Festival is the biggest fundraiser event of the year for Greater Dolores Action, which organizes many community service projects in the Dolores area. Last year, the money went toward putting up more signs for local trails.<\/p>\n
This year, the group asked festivalgoers to vote on one of four possible projects: removal of man-made hazards in the river, more town events, improvements to the river walk trails or the construction of a permanent band shell in Joe Rowell Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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