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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Bandelier National Monument ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:49. Timecode out: 00:03:46. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Jim Bones. Timecode In: 00:04:02. Timecode out: 00:15:09. Notes: Rio Grande condition and importance. Subject 3: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Waterfall ambi. Timecode In: 00:20:56. Timecode out: 00:24:32. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Jim Bones. Timecode In: 00:24:47. Timecode out: 01:08:14. Notes: Rio Grande condition and importance. Subject 5: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: River ambi. Timecode In: 01:10:31. Timecode out: 01:13:12. Habitat: ; ; Waterfall. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Spaced Omni Stereo recoded with B&K 4006 Omni mics; Split Track. New Mexico DAT #4 JIM BONES LOG 00:1:00-00:3:50 --AMB. BIRDS OUTSIDE CAVE DWELLINGS AT BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT. INSIDE LIVING CHAMBERS. INTERVIEW WITH PHOTOGRAPHER JIM BONES. We're inside living chamber, decedents of Anasazi. who moved to Rio Grande area around 1,000 AD. Excavated volcanic ash to build chambers. Later moved onto valley floor. Q: Why did they chose to live here. Not sure. Climate getting dryer over 2-3 thousand years. Maybe droughts or pol. or personal problems. Culture splintered. Somehow great water spirit was offended. They were cut off and had to come to the body of the water spirit...The Rio Grand. Many pictographs have interesting figure called plumed or horned serpent. ancestral water spirit. Q: Talk about rivers role in early development here. This is desert region and if it weren't for mountains that catch the rain and snow this would be very difficult place to live. But because of mountains that create own weather system and produce rain and snow...these where people could survive. water is thread of life, draws people. Rio Grande unites as opposed to divide people. Would we be sitting here if not for water. No, too difficult to haul. You go to the water. Rio Frijoles 3 and a half miles from Rio Grande. Begins iin Jemez mountains to the west. One of biggest calderas in the world. This river tied to older culture in N. America Rio Grande one of biggest rivers in north america. Early people followed the river and were supported by it. What did river look like back then. 5-10 thousand years ago it was much more lush. Pine and oak into Bib Bend. Climate getting drier. People starting having profound influence in 1500's with sheep and agricultural techniques. Native grasslands were used up. Huge herds ate grass off. Erosion set in . Soil lost. takes 1,000 years to created 1 inch of soil. Is river still sacred to natives. Yes, spiritually and material source. Never lost importance. Describes cave and how they carved it out. 00:15:30-00:17:15 AMB. INSIDE CAVE. 00:17:25-00:19:42 AMB. WALKING DOWN TO FALLS ... INCLUDES WALKING OVER WOODEN BRIDGE WITH WATER UNDERNEATH. 00:19:49-00:20:55 --AMB. AT WATERFALLS FROM DISTANCE. (AIRPLANE). 00:20:57-00: AMB. AT FALLS, CLOSE UP. UPPER FALLS FRIJOLES CANYON. ******** FROM THIS POINT ON TIMES ARE "COUNTER" TIMES. 00:24:41 ...INTERVIEW WITH JIM BONES BEGINS. 00:24:54 .. INTROS HIMSELF. I'm Jim Bones I'm a landscape photog. and teacher. I've lived along the Rio Grande for 15 years and we're sitting by Rio Frijoles in Bandelier National Monument. 00:25:08-00:25:56 Q: Where is this water going.. The water is coming from Jemez mtns. flowing to the east to meet with Rio Grande eventually to gulf of Mexico and rise as clouds and repeat this cycle as long as the earth exists. 00:25:40--What's happening to Rio Grande. Rio Grande being utilized extensively. industrial, agricultural. There is a finite amount of water. the more people take, the less for natural env. River utilized longer than any, by native americans and those who came. Shows wear and... (Notes truncated)
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- 21 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 21 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 21 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman