Phil T. Archuletta is a native New Mexican, born in 1946 in the town of El Rito located in Rio Arriba County. He is one of the founders of Ojo Caliente Craftsman, a company that went on to be one of the largest manufacturers in Northern New Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, he is the Chief Executive Officer of P & M Signs, Inc., located in Mountainair. His clients include the U. S. Forest Service, National Park Service, the Department of Game and Fish, Bureau of Land Management, the New Mexico Highway Department and cities, counties and municipalities throughout the United States. He has the distinction of having one of the few Smokey Bear franchises in the country. You can find his signs throughout the entire U.S. Forest Service and National Park system. In addition to his "day job," Phil has been inventing and patenting products throughout his lifetime. He has five patents including an anti-vandalism hardware device known as the "Tuffnut." In addition, through his contract with Rockwell International in the 1980s, he manufactured ground support systems for the B-1 Bomber project. Today he is in the final stages of receiving the funding needed to begin the manufacturing of his latest patented invention, Altree. This product takes the fuel that has been creating the catastrophic forest fires, and the plastic milk bottles in the landfills, to create a durable building product. Altree was featured at a Wood Products of the Future Conference by the United Nations held in Switzerland in 2010. This is Phil's third book. He is the author of the popular book, Traveling New Mexico and the co-author of Women Marked for History. Women Marked for History won the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Award in 2015. Both were published by Sunstone Press.
