Colorado Writer and Explorer
Join India Wood at the Rocky Mountain Map Society for a comparison of the goals, navigational methods, maps, and obstacles which shaped her own routes through Colorado and those of early explorers Zebulon Pike (1806), Stephen Long (1820), and John Fremont (1840s). Wood's hiking routes across Colorado Wood, a Colorado local, chose her own route ... Read more
Join India Wood at Odell Brewing for tales of her 1,500-mile backpack of the Colorado X, sponsored by Wildlands Restoration Volunteers. Event begins with a showing of "Diagonal", a short documentary about her hike. Never having tried a physical challenge by age 54, she created her own route from the SE to NW corners and ... Read more
India Wood and Jim Lindsey at allosaurus dig, 1983. Copyright DMNS. India will join a panel at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting. We will discuss the importance of vertebrate fossils for understanding Earth's history, the role of commercial collectors, and the role of fossils in cultural dialogues and inspiring interest ... Read more
Join India Wood at the Sterling Livestock Commission for tales of her 1,500-mile backpack of the Colorado X with an appreciation of the land and people of the Great Plains. Evening includes appetizers, sale barn pie, and beer with her "Diagonal" documentary and slide show followed by a town-hall-style Q&A about rural mental health. The ... Read more