Dr. Andrew Gulliford, professor of History and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis College, will present: 'The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes.”

A social will be held before the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Gulliford will speak about historical archaeology and the wide variety of sites related to sheep movements, sheep camps, cairns, aspen tree carvings, and sheepherder lifeways in Colorado’s high country for summer grazing and in Utah’s canyon country for winter grazing. He will discuss cultural traditions and stories for Basque, Hispano, and Greek herders and sheepmen who have grazed and still graze the state’s public lands.

Gulliford will discuss the history of cattle and sheep wars in Colorado and will bring his research up to date describing ongoing conflicts between guardian dogs and hikers and between domestic sheep and bighorn sheep on national forests.