Take a walking, guided tour to one of North America's oldest cave dwellings whose walls are covered with Pecos River-style pictographs, some 4,000 years old. Guided hiking tour on the Galloway White Shaman Preserve. A 2-hour tour into the Pecos River canyon to view the White Shaman. This pictograph, done in Pecos River style, has great detail. Lots of fieldwork and hands-on exercises.
Price includes meals, lodging, fieldwork, course materials and evening programs.
May 4 till 5 p.m. Your guide is Bob Johnson, volunteer bird expert of the Trans-Pecos Audubon Society. Tour Phantom Cave Springs four miles west of the park to view birds of the Chihuahua Desert and then the birds of San Solomon Cienega at the park. Also view two species of endangered fish. Discover how plants have adapted to survive the harsh conditions of the Chihuahuan Desert and how the first inhabitants of the Big Bend area used these plants for food, shelter and medicine.