Conservancy staff explore the Yellow Jacket Canyon cliff dwellings with archaeologist Jerry Fetterman.
Photo credit: Susan Bowdoin for The Archaeological Conservancy
Conservancy member Jerry Fetterman has donated a thirty-five-acre parcel in Colorado’s Montezuma Valley that contains significant archaeological resources. The parcel, which has been named the Yellow Jacket Canyon Preserve, is located by the rim of Yellow Jacket Canyon, and it borders Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. It is a short distance away from three other Conservancy preserves: the Joe Ben Wheat site complex, Yellowjacket Pueblo, and Albert Porter Pueblo. The Yellowjacket Canyon Preserve is the Conservancy’s twenty-third Colorado preserve, and eighteenth in the Montezuma Valley.
