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tax-exempt corporation. Our primary goal is to offer education and
training about water conservation, primarily through efficient
irrigation of xeriscaping utilizing native and other low-water plants.
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Speakers announced for 13th Water Conservation & Xeriscape Conference:
Senator Jeff Bingaman has been invited to open the conference.
Thursday speakers include: Hunter Lovins – Keynote.
Peter Warshall, Gloria Flora, powerful environmental advocate, Susan J Tweit, and Keith Bowers, Founder of Biohabitats, Dr Jonathon Wolfe.
Friday speakers are: Ketzel Levine – Keynote.
Charles Anderson LA, Betsy Damon, David Salman, Charles Mann, Gary Mallory and N Scott Momaday.
The agenda is now available.
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The Xeriscape Council of New Mexico is extremely pleased to announce that N Scott Momaday has agreed to speak and will be our final keynote speaker for the 2008 Conference. His topic could not be more relevant: “The Spiritual Aspects of Landscape and Water.”
 N. Scott Momaday is a poet, a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, a playwright, a painter, a storyteller, and a professor of English and American literature. He is a Native American (Kiowa), and among his chief interests are Native American art and oral tradition. He has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2007 National Medal of Arts at the White House. He also has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the Premio Letterario Internazionale “Mondello,” Italy’s highest literary award.
Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and was raised in the Indian Country in Oklahoma, New Mexico and the Southwest, where his parents, artist Al Momaday and writer Natachee Scott Momaday, were teachers employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He graduated from the University of New Mexico (BA 1958) and Stanford University (MA 1960, Ph.D. 1963).
Momaday has been a commentator of National Public Radio, the voice of the National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian Institution, the narrator of the PBS documentaries including “Remembered Earth” and “Last Stand at Little Bighorn,” and a featured on-camera commentator on the PBS series “The West,” produced by Ken Burns and directed by Stephen Ives.
We are honored to have Dr Momaday close our conference. |
