Association for Native American Trees and Sacred Places upcoming events

Monument Preserve Tree Tour (20 Oct 2026)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Come one, come all! We are breaking tradition from our weekend tree tours, and offering one on a weekday for those of you with flexible schedules.

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 20th, 2026 @ 10am (plan on 2-3 hours)

Where: Monument Preserve (in Monument, drive West on 2nd Street, cross the RR tracks, and turn left (south) at the stop sign on Mitchell Avenue. Drive south to Mt Herman Road. Turn right on Mt. Herman Road and drive about a mile or less until you see Nursery Road to your left. The parking lot is directly on the corner of Mt. Herman Road and Nursery Road. If you use Google Maps or other, it may take you to a different Mt. Herman Trailhead - hence the "old-fashioned" directions.)

This is a beautiful, quiet area adjacent to an old nursery/tree farm. The prominent Monument Rock and a natural spring will be on our tour as well, with Norma giving some history on the tree farm. There are several "wow" trees here as well, so it will be a nice mix of layers of history in the area.

Norma Brough and Heidi Wigand-Nicely will lead this tour. Please sign up on the NASTaP Events page for this tour if you can. If for some reason you have trouble with that, feel free to email us from the "contacts" button on our website, www.nastap.org, or directly @ heidi.wigand.nicely@gmail.com We will help you get signed up.

Hope to see many of you there!

NASTaP Annual Meeting (12 Nov 2026)

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:00:00 GMT

The annual meeting of the Association of Native American Sacred Trees and Places will be held via Zoom on November 12 at 6 pm Mountain Time. Please join us to hear about our accomplishments during our first year after our leader Dr. James Jefferson, walked on to the spirit world. We will announce plans for the future as developed at our refocusing meeting in August.

We will also present the slate of officers, board members and advisory council members for vote. If you can't attend you can send in your votes and comments to Lee at lee.recca@gmail.com. We still have an opening for a Treasurer. Let me know if you would like to receive the role description.

Holiday Wrapping Party (5 Dec 2026)

Sat, 05 Dec 2026 22:00:00 GMT

On Saturday, September 5th, from 3pm-6pm, NASTaP has a room reserved at Serranos Coffee in Monument to hold our 2nd annual Holiday Wrapping Party! Participants may drop off gifts or stay and help wrap. These gift items, after wrapped, will be driven to two different reservations, Ute Mountain Ute and Northern Ute.

Email blasts will be going out for this event soon, describing types of items suggested.

We so appreciate your time and donations!