Acknowledgements and Resources

Spending three weeks as an Artist-In-Residence living, hiking, and writing in Valles Caldera was an incredible gift. The writing I’ve included here is just the beginning, there are so many more stories to write and tell. I hope to return and to continue. But for now, I’d like to acknowledge those who did so much to make me feel at home. Much gratitude to the Pueblo and Four Winds Park Fire Ecology Crew for a day in the field. And huge thanks to Valles Caldera Rangers Dave Krueger, Lauren Ray, Adam Dean, Sarah Hall, Corey Lycopolus, Chad Kerner, Meg McAlonis, David Jones, and Raelyn Toya, for their humor, warmth, wisdom, and welcome.

Books and Resources consulted:

• A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There, Aldo Leopold, Penguin Classics edition, 2020 (Originally published posthumously by Oxford University Press in 1949)
• At the Precipice, New Mexico’s Changing Climate, Laura Paskus, University of New Mexico Press, 2020
• Baca Ranch Cabin District Self-Guided Walking Tour Brochure, Los Amigos de Valles Caldera, 2020
• On The Burning Edge, Kyle Dickman, Ballantine Books, 2015
• The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, Fernanda Santos, Flatiron Books, 2017
• Valles Caldera National Preserve Guide and Map, Kirt Kempter, PhD and Dick Huelster, High Desert Field Guides, University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
• Valles Caldera National Preserve Website (https://nps.gov/vall/index.htm), multiple pages
• Valle Grande, A History of the Baca Location No. 1, Craig Martin, All Seasons Publishing, 2003

All interpretive errors are my own.