The Journal
Historian Duane G. Jundt will present an evening program, “Birdwatcher in Chief: Theodore Roosevelt and America’s Birds,” at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Morefield Campground Amphitheater, 5 miles inside the Mesa Verde National Park entrance.
Theodore Roosevelt signed legislation establishing Mesa Verde National Park on June 29, 1906. Roosevelt was also an avid birdwatcher, a hobby started in boyhood, and a champion of preserving America’s threatened bird species and habitats.
Duane Jundt is a member of the Advisory Board of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and a frequent contributor to the TRA Journal. A former college history professor, Jundt regularly speaks at state and national parks and nature centers across the Midwest and West, including Rocky Mountain and Theodore Roosevelt national parks.
The program is free and open to the public. For a list of other programs in the series, visit www.nps.gov/meve/planyourvisit/4c_lectureseries.htm or www.facebook.com/4CornersLectureSeries.