Silver City, NM, April 4, 2017'For Immediate Release. This past Thursday and Friday, over 100 seventh-grade students from La Plata Middle School in Silver City got to spend their day out at the Dragonfly Trail and the Dragonfly Interpretive Site.

This event was coordinated by Marilyn Markel, the Southwest coordinator for the New Mexico SiteWatch stewards with some great partners - six Aldo Leopold Youth Conservation Corps Student Archaeology Interns and three New Mexico SiteWatch volunteers who are also members of the Grant County Archaeological Society. The students learned about GÇ£Leave No TraceGÇ¥ principles, site stewardship at the Petroglyph site, the difference between dragonflies and damselflies; and other natural resource lessons. The students hiked the entire trail and were given the opportunity to draw and photograph the glyphs they saw at the petroglyph site.

The students at the Aldo Leopold Charter School assist with monitoring the petroglyph site at the Dragonfly Trail. SiteWatch is a network of trained volunteers who monitor prehistoric and historic resources on public, private and tribal lands in their communities. If you are interested in learning more about SiteWatch you can check out their information at http://www.nmhistoricpreservation.org/programs/sitewatch.html.

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