BGuthrie Photos: NM -- Bandelier National Monument

NM -- Bandelier National Monument:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BANDEL_060526_008.JPG: Frijoles Canyon (where most of the ruins are) from the rim
2. BANDEL_060526_095.JPG: Talus House is a group of masonry rooms reconstructed in 1920 by archeologist Kenneth Chapman. 14th-16th Century foundations revealed by excavation in 1909 were a guide to the original layout of the stone walls. A group of Native American workers from nearby San Ildefonso Pueblo did the construction work. Chapman reconstructed Talus House to illustrate how many of the cavates had masonry rooms built in front of them. Look for horizontal rows of holes in the cliff face: they indicate where the roof beams for these stone structures would have been placed. Architectural conservators at Bandelier National Monument are leading a crew of masonry workers in the preservation of Talus House. The flat roofs of the structure are vulnerable to erosion from rain and snow, as well as damage from rock falls. The preservation work includes replacing deteriorated roofing elements, including log beams (called vigas), smaller cross-branches (known as latillas), mortar in the stone parapets, and the dirt roof coverings. Workers use archival photographs of the building as a reference to maintain its historic appearance.
3. BANDEL_060526_298.JPG: The hole there is Long House Cave which has a colony of bats living it.
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Wikipedia Description: Bandelier National Monument
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bandelier National Monument is a U.S. National Monument consisting of 32,737 acres (132.48 km�) of northern New Mexico, United States. About five-sevenths (23,367 acres (94.56 km�)) of the monument has been designated a wilderness area. The Valles Caldera National Preserve adjoins the monument on the north and east, extending into the Jemez Mountains.

History:

Bandelier was designated a National Monument on February 11, 1916, and the wilderness area was designated in October 1976.

The national monument is named after anthropologist Adolph Bandelier.

Several serious forest fires have plagued the monument in the latter part of the 20th century, culminating in the disastrous Cerro Grande Fire of 2000. This fire originated as a controlled burn for fire control but spread out of control owing to high winds, eventually burning over 40,000 acres (160 km�) of forest and destroying 250 homes in Los Alamos.

Monument description:

The main attraction of the monument for the casual visitor is Frijoles Canyon, containing the (restored) ruins of a number of dwellings, kivas (ceremonial structures), rock paintings and petroglyphs. Some of the dwellings were rock structures built on the canyon floor; others were "cave dwellings" produced by voids in the tuff of the canyon wall and enlarged by human action; and still others were constructed of rock but used the canyon wall as the back wall of rooms. A 1-mile (1.6 km), predominantly paved loop trail from the visitors' center affords access to these features. A spur trail extending beyond this loop leads to Alcove House (formerly called Ceremonial Cave, and still so identified on some maps), a shelter cave produced by erosion of the soft tuff and containing a small, restored kiva that the hiker may enter via ladder.

A large collection of structures at the monument were built during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps, constitu ...More...
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