Showing posts with label Petrified Forest National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petrified Forest National Park. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Journeys in the Back of Beyond: Wait, This is a National Park?

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  Pack up your stuff kids! We're going to a NATIONAL PARK! Cool! Does it have big mountains? No. Oh, does it have deep canyons? No. Can ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Airliner Chronicles: Stuck on a Plane with a Proselytizer...

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And really, I felt sorry for the poor guy who was stuck sitting with me on the plane flight from St. Louis to LAX. Oh, I wasn't trying...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Dreams of Summer: This is Where and When...Wait, They Made a National Park Out of This?

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Why, yes. Yes they did. About two posts ago , I pointed out that there are some places where the geology is kind of...monotonous. One of t...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

It's One of the Most Spectacular Landscapes on Planet Earth: Come and see the Colorado Plateau in Person! June 11-26, 2015

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For once I am not discussing a trip I have taken...I am talking about a trip that you can take. Grand Canyon from Powell Point on the So...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: There is at least one forest in the Southwest that won't burn this year...

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We continue our journey through the Abandoned Lands , the empty landscapes of the Colorado Plateau. We arrived at the national park the ne...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Even More Beautiful Trees, and a Sequoia Story

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The mini-meme on trees grew larger today when I wasn't looking....here are some more that I noticed when I got online tonight (in additi...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: The Real Jurassic Parks

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As we move forward in time, we reach the geologic period called the Jurassic , one of the few units of the geologic time scale that is fami...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Mid-week Mystery Sample: What is it?

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So what is it? In the early 1990's, I was conducting one of our first field trips through the Colorado Plateau region, and at a stop t...
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