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Glen Canyon Area Calendar of Events & Activities
Glen Canyon Natural History Association sponsors and supports lectures, events, and activities at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on topics of interest to the region.
In addition, Glen Canyon Natural History Association partners with the Powell Museum, and Page Public Library to present the Glen Canyon
Lecture Series in Page, AZ at the Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam.
Also on this calendar you will find lectures, events, and activities hosted directly by the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation
Area and the Bureau of Land Management at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
These activities are presented as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument,
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. Admission is free, unless otherwise noted.
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61th Annual Coconino Country Fair
Date: Friday, September 3 to Monday, September 6, 2010
Where: Coconino County Fairgrounds, Fort Tuthill County Park, Flagstaff, Arizona
Description: Come join Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Glen Canyon Natural History Association at the 61th Annual Coconino County Fair. We will be sharing a both with Grand Canyon National Park and Grand Canyon Association and the Flagstaff area National Monuments.
Visit the official website of the Coconino County Fair for more information. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - "Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent" presented by Scott D. Sampson
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where:Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: For more than a century, paleontologists have been collecting abundant, often spectacular dinosaur fossils from the Western Interior of North America, with the bulk of these remains found in rocks dating to the final stages of the Cretaceous Period. Only recently have we learned that most of these dinosaurs - among them horned, duck-billed, dome-headed, and armored plant-eaters, as well as giant tyrannosaur meat-eaters and smaller "raptor-like" predators - existed on a "lost continent" known as "Laramidia."
About 100 million years ago, exceptionally high sea levels flooded central North America, resulting in a north-south oriented seaway extending from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This shallow sea isolated life-forms on the eastern and western landmasses for most the next 30 million years. We know little of what happened on the eastern landmass, but its western counterpart, Laramidia, witnessed a tremendous florescence of dinosaurs and other Cretaceous life-forms. Surprisingly, despite the small size of Laramidia (less than one-fifth the size of present day North America) and giant sizes of many of the dinosaurs, different species co-existed in the northern and southern regions.
The strongest evidence of these isolated dinosaur "provinces" comes from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which has revealed a previously unknown assemblage of dinosaurs. How were so many giant animals able to co-exist on such a diminutive landmass? Why were most of these dinosaurs adorned with bizarre bony features such as horns, crests, domes, or spikes? How did the predatory giant Tyrannosaurus rex ultimately evolve, and what factors may have led to the great extinction of dinosaurs at the close of the Mesozoic Era? Scott Sampson will address these questions and more, exploring some of the latest ideas and controversies reviewed in his recent book, Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life.
A book signing will follow the presentation.
Scott D. Sampson is a dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator and the Research Curator at the Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah where he has overseen years of research on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and other public lands of the Colorado Plateau. He served as science advisor and on-air host of the Discovery Channel series Dinosaur Planet, and is presently serving the same pair of roles in the new hit PBS KIDS series Dinosaur Train, produced by the Jim Henson Company. He recently completed a general audience book, Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life, and he is presently working on another book pertaining to the epic of evolution.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series - "Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent" presented by Scott D. Sampson
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time
Where: Kanab Visitor Center, Hwy 89, Kanab, Utah
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time
Where: Escalante Visitor Center, Hwy 12, Escalante, Utah
Description: For more than a century, paleontologists have been collecting abundant, often spectacular dinosaur fossils from the Western Interior of North America, with the bulk of these remains found in rocks dating to the final stages of the Cretaceous Period. Only recently have we learned that most of these dinosaurs - among them horned, duck-billed, dome-headed, and armored plant-eaters, as well as giant tyrannosaur meat-eaters and smaller "raptor-like" predators - existed on a "lost continent" known as "Laramidia."
About 100 million years ago, exceptionally high sea levels flooded central North America, resulting in a north-south oriented seaway extending from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This shallow sea isolated life-forms on the eastern and western landmasses for most the next 30 million years. We know little of what happened on the eastern landmass, but its western counterpart, Laramidia, witnessed a tremendous florescence of dinosaurs and other Cretaceous life-forms. Surprisingly, despite the small size of Laramidia (less than one-fifth the size of present day North America) and giant sizes of many of the dinosaurs, different species co-existed in the northern and southern regions.
The strongest evidence of these isolated dinosaur "provinces" comes from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which has revealed a previously unknown assemblage of dinosaurs. How were so many giant animals able to co-exist on such a diminutive landmass? Why were most of these dinosaurs adorned with bizarre bony features such as horns, crests, domes, or spikes? How did the predatory giant Tyrannosaurus rex ultimately evolve, and what factors may have led to the great extinction of dinosaurs at the close of the Mesozoic Era? Scott Sampson will address these questions and more, exploring some of the latest ideas and controversies reviewed in his recent book, Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life.
A book signing will follow the presentation.
Scott D. Sampson is a dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator and the Research Curator at the Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah where he has overseen years of research on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and other public lands of the Colorado Plateau. He served as science advisor and on-air host of the Discovery Channel series Dinosaur Planet, and is presently serving the same pair of roles in the new hit PBS KIDS series Dinosaur Train, produced by the Jim Henson Company. He recently completed a general audience book, Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life, and he is presently working on another book pertaining to the epic of evolution.
Admission is free. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series is co-sponsored by Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National
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6th Annual Powell Symposium - "Feeding the Grid: Energy on the Colorado Plateau"
Date: Friday, September 17 to Sunday, September 19, 2010
Time: See website for schedule
Where: Various locations in the Glen Canyon NRA/Grand Staircase-Escalante NM area
Description: At the forefront of many of the issues facing the United States in the near future, the energy debate is a complex topic with often interconnected issues and multi-faceted solutions that are hard for people to agree on. At the heart of the topic though are two core components: the need to generate energy and the need to minimize the impact on the planet of energy generation. Whether we are talking about coal, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, or other renewable resources, no single source will fuel the future, and no single solution will protect the environment.
So, where do we start? How about at home here on the Colorado Plateau. Join us this year as the Powell Symposium takes a closer look at the energy issues that affect this unique region. From coal mining at Black Mesa to the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station to the Glen Canyon Dam to the future of renewable resources such as wind and solar, we will examine where we are and where we can go from here.
This Glen Canyon Lecture Series Special Event is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library. |
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National Public Lands Day 2010 - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Time: TBD
Where:TBD
Description: Volunteer and join Glen Canyon National Recreation Area for a Day of Service and Celebration
National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands American’s enjoy. In 2005, nearly 90,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, planted trees and plants, and removed trash and invasive plants. Join us in September 2009 for the 16th annual National Public Lands Day and help us care for our land. We invite everybody from federal land management agencies to state parks and playgrounds in local neighborhoods to participate.
Visit the official website: www.PublicLandsDay.org |
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National Public Lands Day 2010 - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Time: TBD
Where: TBD
Description: Volunteer and join the Bureau of Land Management on National Public Lands Day.
National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands American’s enjoy. In 2005, nearly 90,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, planted trees and plants, and removed trash and invasive plants. Join us in September 2009 for the 16th annual National Public Lands Day and help us care for our land. We invite everybody from federal land management agencies to state parks and playgrounds in local neighborhoods to participate.
Visit the official website: www.PublicLandsDay.org |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - "Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River" presented by Jonathan Waterman
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where:Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: Jonathan Waterman, noted author and adventurer, presents an illustrated lecture on his unprecedented 1,450 mile journey down the Colorado River. In 1869, John Wesley Powell led a small party down the Green and Colorado Rivers in a bold attempt to explore the Grand Canyon for the first time. After their monumental expedition, they told of raging rapids, constant danger, and breathtaking natural beauty of the American landscape at its most pristine.
Jon Waterman combines sheer adventure and environmental calamity in this trailblazing cautionary account of his 2008 trip down the overtaxed, drying Colorado. Dammed and tunneled, forced into countless canals, trapped in reservoirs and harnessed for electricity, what once was untamed and free is now humbled, parched, and so yoked to human purposes that in most years it trickles away 100 miles from its oceanic destination.
Waterman writes with informal immediacy in this eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles. He shows how our profligacy and inexorable climate change spark political conflict, and how we can avert this onrushing ecological crisis. As he follows Powell afloat and afoot, Waterman reaches out both to adventure travelers and to scientists, conservationists, environmentalists, and anyone interested in the fragile interplay between nature and humans.
The multi-year research for the "Colorado River Project" was supported by a National Geographic grant. His 1,450-mile, five-month-long trip included unintentional swims through rapids; trespasses across dams; weeks of solitude on the river balanced by meetings with scientists and water operators; a ten-day walk through the dried-out delta (occasionally paddling his three-pound raft down irrigation canals). Until his journey, the full descent of the Colorado River had never been completed. Now Jon believes that it should not be undertaken again until the river reaches the sea.
A book signing will follow the presentation.
Jonathan Waterman has broken trail with ten unique journey books exploring history, culture, and environment. He is renowned for unprecedented mountaineering ascents, long river descents, and arduous wilderness traverses-such as his 2,200 mile solo of the Northwest Passage (Arctic Crossing, Knopf, 2001). Jon has also written for, appeared in, and created five TV documentaries about his wild journeys. The accolades for his work include 7 book and magazine awards, an Emmy, and a Denali National Park Special Achievement Award for his rescue service on Mt. McKinley.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - Lecture to be Announced
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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6th Annual Powell Symposium
Date: TBD
Time: See Website for Schedule
Where: Page, Arizona & Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Description: Join us in 2010 for the 6th Annual Powell Symposium. Check out PowellSymposium.org for the latest details. |
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series
Check back for more detail's on next October's Walks & Talks events.
Admission is free. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series is co-sponsored by Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
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Glen Canyon NHA Annual Member Meeting
Special Guest Speaker: To be announced
Date: TBD
Time: 7:00 pm
Where:Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: Glen Canyon NHA members and agency partners are invited to this year's Annual Member Meeting.
Admission is free for Glen Canyon Natural History Association Members; memberships will be available at the door starting at $25.00. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - Lecture to be Announced
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - Lecture to be Announced
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series is co-sponsored by Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - Lecture to be Announced
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series
Check back for more detail's on June's Walks & Talks events.
Admission is free. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series is co-sponsored by Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - Lecture to be Announced
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series
Check back for more detail's on June's Walks & Talks events.
Admission is free. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series is co-sponsored by Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
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Glen Canyon Lecture Series - Lecture to be Announced
Date: TBD
Time: Lecture begins at 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (Doors open by 6:45 pm)
Where: Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
Description: This lecture will be announced soon - Date and Location are subject to change.
Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell. |
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series
Check back for more detail's on next August's Walks & Talks events.
Admission is free. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Walks & Talks Series is co-sponsored by Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
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