Carrie Leven
Carrie Leven has worked as an archaeologist on the Carson National Forest in Taos since moving back to New Mexico in 1993. One of her special areas of interest is the archaeology of the Valle Vidal and its role as a hunting grounds and travel way between the Rio Grande Valley and the Plains prior to and after European arrival.
TOPIC - Carrie has been researching and finding evidence of the settlement and exploitation of the Mexican Land Grants -- including the busted mining boomtown of LaBelle on the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant on the west side of the Valle Vidal, and the railroad logging settlement at Ponil Park on the Maxwell Land Grant on the east side.
Carrie will show slides of archaeological sites and talk about the history and land use of this unique portion of the Questa Ranger District that is hidden along the high-country road that crosses the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Costilla and Cimarron, New Mexico.
