Our immediate forest in the Rocky Mountains west of Boulder, Colorado at 8000-9400 ft. on land that belongs to herself, that the Núu-ci (Ute) and Apache Peoples belong to, and was historically visited by Many Indigenous Peoples, more recently Hinono’ei (Arapaho) and Tsistsistas (Cheyenne).
Peter Callan
Peter was a hot-shot firefighter for the Federal government in the 1980’s and 1990’s. He then travelled North America for 7 years in a “Spiral Journey”, focusing on living and learning the natural history of many areas from coast to coast, north to south. Peter has been a board director of “Pathways: Wildlife Corridors of NM” since its inception in 2010. As an all volunteer organization, Pathways has led the community in a variety of wildlife corridor support activities. Peter led the wildlife track and sign identification and corridor transect monitoring project for 5 years, and continues to co- lead the camera trap data gathering effort along with Mitch Johnson. A life-long learner, Peter is self-taught in Botany and Global Plant Taxonomy. Continuing his training in wildlife tracking and trailing , and continuing to gain practical skills in wildlands restoration – from wetlands to drylands to post-fire sites for the past 20 years, has led Peter to become the co-owner of “Habitat Farms Collective, LLC”, which is currently managing a wildlife habitat conservation site for the City of ABQ Open Space (Visitor Center).
Eleanor M. Godway
Professor Emerita, Central Connecticut State University. Known in Philosophy circles as a Merleau-Ponty scholar. PhD in Philosophy (Phenomenology) from Cambridge University, England. Dissertation: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Paroles Originaires and the Emergence of Meaning, cited at https://philpapers.org/rec/SHAPOT-9. Currently working on a monograph on John MacMurray, https://johnmacmurray.org/, with a concern on what humans are doing; the consequences of our actions…specifically regarding the hubris of science. MacMurray is very clear that human problems stem from our not acknowledging our network of relationships including with the non-human. Phenomenology and the Frontiers of Experience: Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray https://www.jstor.org/stable/41298957. https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/eleanor-godway-bio https://philpeople.org/profiles/eleanor-godway
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is a 2nd-order cybernetician and forest custodian who has been in mutually-nourishing relation with the immediate forest at Tuscarora daily for 30 years.
Iayana Rael
Island dweller-custodian from Anishinaabe territory Gichi-nibiinsing-zaaga’igan (Lake Nipissing) Canada since birth. Independent dance-sound creator/director/teacher/producer; non-violence ethicist. Living with montane/upper montane forest Boulder County CO since 1997. Founder/co-founder/coordinator of artist-run spaces, collaborative community action and federal charities in Canada and the US since 1981. Co-founder of Remembrance Planning Circle for Re-membering 1864. Pioneered dance-virtual holography-trance hypnosis-whole systems integration in professional dance performance, guest pioneer holographer Harriet Casdin-Silver, MIT; & creation space for youth/youth who have witnessed or experienced abuse or ADHD. Creation via shared vision; deep work is play: she tends land & people caring, grounding heterarchical interrelating of all Life, historically common in Indigenous lifeways world-wide; recently expressed in complex whole systems science/2nd order cybernetics. She takes direction from Spirit, specific rocks, water, plants, earth, creatures, wind.
Julie Quibodeaux
Americorps service 5 years specializing in forestry, trail building. Backbacking guide. Tuscarora custodian and forester since 2014, carefully implementing her own ingenious form of Hügelkultur for forest health and moisture retention. Self taught plant forager, medicinal creator, gardener.
Tess Loree Eckert
Independent movement artist, facilitator, bodyworker, water protector, and student of life. Tess is fascinated by creatively exploring the relationship between our diverse inner and outer landscapes via contemporary and improvised dance, storytelling, poetry and sound. She has bloodlines to the Chickasaw Tribe of Oklahoma and Sweden on her mother’s side and to Germany on her mother and father’s side. Having migrated to the Bundjalung Nation on the east coast of Australia 13 years ago from Boulder Valley/foothills of the Rockies , central to her collaborations is investigation of how to create a sense of responsible belonging and care for the places and bodies we inhabit. Tess is a co-founding member of Flow Collective in Lismore, NSW, and a co-founding member of the Remembrance Planning Circle. Tess holds a Masters of Social Work with a concentration in American Indian Studies from Washington University, St. Louis. Tess helped create the CIP website and offers input and administrative support when she has the time!
And others in the wings….