Dorothy and Donald Hoard arrived in Los Alamos with their four children on Sept. 9, 1963. For ten years, Dorothy and her fellow hikers from the Los Alamos Outdoor Association "walked down every canyon and every mesa in Bandelier," said Dorothy, which led to the publication of her book, A Guide to Bandelier National Monument. Dorothy founded Friends of Bandelier in 1987 and has served as president since its inception. In 1982, Living Treasure Betty Lilienthal asked Dorothy to help her catalog the Los Alamos County petroglyphs. The survey took ten years to complete. In 1995, Sentinels in Stone was published and White Rock Canyon and its art were given a place on the National Register of Historic Places. Dorothy and Betty received a Governor's Award for Historic Preservation. "Casa Dorotea" is the name Bandelier National Monument archaeologist Rory Gauthier selected for a small site Dorothy Hoard discovered during years of hiking in Bandelier. Dorothy organizes the annual butterfly count, has inventoried local plants and teaches plant identification classes.

Additional biographical material can be found in the Los Alamos Monitor of March 31, 2003.

Written by Karen Nilsson Brandt, copyright ©