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Grand Canyon Association,
in partnership with Northern Arizona University
in Flagstaff and the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott and the Foothills Branch Library in Glendale, offers the Canyon Country Community
Lecture Series. The goal of this series
is to take the rich interpretive themes of Grand
Canyon National Park and the region directly to
enthusiasts in nearby communities. Speakers include
authorities on the rich natural and cultural history
of Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau.
For more information contact us at:
(800) 858-2808 or gcassociation@grandcanyon.org
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TUCSON - Sylvester Allred
Tassel-Eared Squirrels and Ponderosa Pine Trees
Lecture and Booksigning
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Western National Parks Association Store
12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive
Tucson, Ariz.
Noon and 2:00 p.m. (two presentations)
Reservations Required call (520) 622-1999 for details
Join Northern Arizona University Biology Professor Sylvester Allred to learn about tassel-eared squirrels that live in the ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern United States. These squirrels are the most handsome of all North American tree squirrels. They build their nests in and feed on various parts of ponderosas.
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FLAGSTAFF - Ian Hough, Vanishing Treasures Archeologist
Extreme Cultural Landscapes: New Archeological Research in Grand Canyon National Park
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Conversations on the Edge: Ranger Lecture Series
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Recent research in archeology at Grand Canyon National Park is revealing interesting patterns of human use of the resources in this dynamic environment. Through the ages, people developed a wide range of social and cultural strategies at Grand Canyon, from small-scale foraging and hunting to socially complex farming.
Ian Hough, who received his master of arts from Northern Arizona University in anthropology in 1999, will share some of the recent findings of archeological surveys, excavations and other research in the park.
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PRESCOTT - Brad Dimock
Murl Emery: Historical, Hysterical Pioneer of the Lower Colorado River
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Prescott Public Library
215 East Goodwin Street
Prescott, Ariz.
2:00 p.m.
Born and raised in the parched desert country of the lower Colorado River, Murl Emery came to know the currents of the muddy river as no other man. Emery’s life’s work reads like a historical novel: among other things, he was the lead boatman during the construction of Hoover Dam and, in later life, he advised scientists and members of Congress.
Brad Dimock, who recently edited and published Robert S. Wood’s biography of Murl Emery, hilariously portrays a remarkable life in words and images.
A booksigning will follow the program.
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FLAGSTAFF - Brad Dimock
Murl Emery: Historical, Hysterical Pioneer of the Lower Colorado River
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Born and raised in the parched desert country of the lower Colorado River, Murl Emery came to know the currents of the muddy river as no other man. Emery’s life’s work reads like a historical novel: among other things, he was the lead boatman during the construction of Hoover Dam and, in later life, he advised scientists and members of Congress.
Brad Dimock, who recently edited and published Robert S. Wood’s biography of Murl Emery, hilariously portrays a remarkable life in words and images.
A booksigning will follow the program.
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FLAGSTAFF - Mike Kearsley, Vegetation Mapping Coordinator
Mapping the Green: Vegetation Mapping at Grand Canyon
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Conversations on the Edge: Ranger Lecture Series
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
With the greatest plant species diversity of any national park, extremes in elevation and topography, diverse geologic substrates, and influences from surrounding biogeographic provinces, the vegetative communities of Grand Canyon are as unique as you will find anywhere in the world.
Mike Kearsley, who earned a PhD in botany from Northern Arizona University in 1991, will give a brief history of vegetation mapping at Grand Canyon, describe the incredible diversity of plant communities found in the park and share some of the new insights into the canyon’s plant communities gained via vegetation mapping.
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FLAGSTAFF - James Babbitt
Flagstaff: An Early History
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Join author and Flagstaff family pioneer descendant James Babbitt for a trip back to Flagstaff’s early years. Babbitt traces the establishment and early development of the railway, timber industry and tourism, and how each is a facet in the character of Arizona’s “Mountain Town.”
A booksigning will follow the program.
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PRESCOTT - Tom Martin
Call of the Canyon: Moulty Fulmer's 1950s Grand Canyon River Trips
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Prescott Public Library
215 East Goodwin Street
Prescott, Ariz.
2:00 p.m.
Join Flagstaff author Tom Martin for a fun, visual presentation on the origins of the GEM, Grand Canyons first dory. This type of boat incorporated self bailing through the use of scuppers, had side boxes in the boatman’s footwell, and a fifteen-inch rocker, something never before seen on Grand Canyon watercraft.
The GEM, built in 1953 in Muncie, Indiana, by Stephen Moulton Babcock Fulmer, is now in the fleet of Grand Canyon historic boats at the park.
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GLENDALE - Bruce Aiken
Life in Upper Bright Angel Canyon and the Evolution of the Grand Canyon National Park Water System
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library
19055 North 57th Avenue
Glendale, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Bruce Aiken will discuss and show slides, video and historic photography on how Roaring Springs came to be the source for the park’s water supply. Aiken will discuss everything from the 1928 development of the North Rim by the Union Pacific Railroad to the construction of the 1979 pumphouse/residence complex at the confluence of Bright Angel and Roaring Springs canyons to the current facilities operating there today. He will also touch on the 1966 flood and the destruction of the transcanyon pipeline from Roaring Springs to Phantom Ranch, as well as the 1995 flood and similar infrastructure devastation.
Join Aiken as he shares his story with a visual presentation of more than thirty years of living and working at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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FLAGSTAFF - Tom Martin
Call of the Canyon: Moulty Fulmer's 1950s Grand Canyon River Trips
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Join Flagstaff author Tom Martin for a fun, visual presentation on the origins of the GEM, Grand Canyons first dory. This boat incorporated self bailing through the use of scuppers, had side boxes in the boatman’s footwell, and a fifteen-inch rocker, something never before seen on Grand Canyon watercraft.
The GEM, built in 1953 in Muncie Indiana, by Stephen Moulton Babcock Fulmer, is now in the fleet of Grand Canyon historic boats at the park.
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FLAGSTAFF - Steve Rice, Hydrologist
Native Waters: Springs and Seeps of Grand Canyon National Park
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Conversations on the Edge: Ranger Lecture Series
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
The springs and seeps of Grand Canyon are places of exceptional natural beauty that provide water and shelter in an otherwise arid environment. Springs also support diverse riparian vegetation and are often locations of substantial cultural significance. Hundreds of springs and seeps exist in the park, yet little is known about most of them.
Park Hydrologist Steve Rice, who received his master of science in geology from Northern Arizona University in 2007, will provide an overview of the hydrologic system that supports the canyon’s springs and seeps. He will also discuss activities and processes that threaten them, and the development of new protocols for baseline-data collection, interpretation and monitoring.
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PRESCOTT - Mark Klett
Charting the Canyon: A Photographic Exploration
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Prescott Public Library
215 East Goodwin Street
Prescott, Ariz.
2:00 p.m.
Mark Klett, a Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University, and fellow photographer Byron Wolfe have spent three summers locating the sites of historic photographs and artworks of the Grand Canyon and making new photographs at the same locations.
These new photographs explore the relationship of the original images to the spaces they depict. The approach is intentionally experimental and playful, but the results are meant to explore the early art of the canyon and how the Grand Canyon landscape became one of American art’s icons.
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FLAGSTAFF - Alan Petersen
Gunnar Widforss: Painter of the National Parks
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
In that era of dramatic social change and artistic fervor, Swedish-born painter Gunnar Widforss spent thirteen years creating an unrivaled body of work documenting the beauty of the American West. He painted with determination to capture his vision, and then he died suddenly at the Grand Canyon at the age of 55. In his commitment to the truth and beauty of his subject, Widforss never resorted to sentimental or romanticized depictions, so prevalent in depictions of western subjects. He may be viewed as one of the greatest artists to paint the West and his obscurity is a paradox.
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GLENDALE - Bryan Bates
Astronomy in the Ancestral Puebloan Cultures: How Science May Have Informed Calendar and Decision-Making
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library
19055 North 57th Avenue
Glendale, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
For ages, humans have gazed skyward in an attempt to determine the patterns and movement of the skies. Now through on-site research back-up by ethnographic interviews and surveys of previously recorded information, we are able to put together how several of the different ancestral cultures used astronomy to help them survival through using clues from nature and how the astronomy informed their ceremonial life.
Share an evening with Bryan Bates who has spent much of the past twenty years researching the astronomy of cultures across the Colorado Plateau. Learn how the Native peoples have developed their own science and then woven it into their culture.
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FLAGSTAFF - Brandon Holton, Wildlife Interactions Biologist
The Canyon's Lions: Mountain Lions Ecology Research in Grand Canyon National Park
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Conversations on the Edge: Ranger Lecture Series
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Wildlife Biologist Brandon Holton, who received his master of science degree from Northern Arizona University in environmental sciences and policy in 2007, will discuss the mountain lion research program at Grand Canyon National Park.
Holton will cover the history of mountain lion management at Grand Canyon and discuss the current distribution, demographics and predation behaviors of lions in the park. The park’s research program incorporates the status and changing abundance and distribution of lion prey species, including elk, mule deer and desert bighorn sheep.
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PRESCOTT - Todd Weber
History of River Runners of the Grand Canyon
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Prescott Public Library
215 East Goodwin Street
Prescott, Ariz.
2:00 p.m.
Historian Todd Weber recounts the fascinating experiences of those who have been drawn to the wonders and adventures of the Colorado River as it weaves its way through the Grand Canyon. His discussion will include tales of the John Wesley Powell expedition, the ambitions of industrialists and the mystery of the Hydes’ disappearance.
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FLAGSTAFF - Susan Lamb
The Ponderosa Forest: So Much More Than Trees!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
With so much emphasis on the critical issues of fire management, bark beetles and tree thinning, it really can be difficult to “see the forest for the trees.” Using images taken by photographer Tom Bean, Lamb will offer an overview of the soils, understory and wildlife of northern Arizona’s ponderosa pine forest. She will share highlights of “The Flower Clock,” her ongoing documentation of wildflowers in the forests around Flagstaff.
Join writer and former Grand Canyon National Park interpretive ranger Susan Lamb for an illustrated presentation on the ponderosa forest of northern Arizona.
A booksigning will follow the program.
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GLENDALE - Lori Rome
Salt & Soap: A True Canine Story of Friendship and Adventure at Grand Canyon
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library
19055 North 57th Avenue
Glendale, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Lori Rome’s book for children, The Adventures of Salt and Soap at Grand Canyon, is the true story of two puppies that wandered into the Grand Canyon and experienced great adventures in the grandest of all canyons—multiple rim-to-river hikes, a river trip on the mighty Colorado and a helicopter ride out of the canyon’s depths—while ultimately snuggling their way into park rangers’ and visitors’ hearts.
Join Lori, the park ranger who adopted Salt and Soap, as she shares their unique and inspirational story. A booksigning will follow the program.
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GLENDALE - Tom Martin
“Call of the Canyon”: Moulty Fulmer’s 1950s Grand Canyon River Trips
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library
19055 North 57th Avenue
Glendale, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Join Flagstaff author Tom Martin for a fun, visual presentation on the origins of the GEM, Grand Canyons first dory. This type of boat incorporated self bailing through the use of scuppers, had side boxes in the boatman’s footwell, and a fifteen-inch rocker, something never before seen on Grand Canyon watercraft.
The GEM, built in 1953 in Muncie, Indiana, by Stephen Moulton Babcock Fulmer, is now in the fleet of Grand Canyon historic boats at the park.
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