Podcasts about Dinosaur National Monument

We have talked about all manner of fundamentals of research on fossils over the years here on Terrible Lizards, including finding and excavating fossils, writing and publishing papers, reconstructing animals from fragments and more. But we've somehow really glossed over the role of museums that store and protect fossils and make them available for research, as well as carrying out their own work too. In order to correct this oversight, today we welcome ReBecca Hunt-Foster who is the curator on the legendary Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. Here she takes us through her background and research and the challenges of looking after one of the most famous and important dinosaur sites in the world.   Links:   https://www.patreon.com/terriblelizards ReBecca on Bluesky: @dinochick.bsky.social Here's the link to the US National Parks website about Dinosaur National Monument: https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm An old blogpost of Dave's about the bitten baby Diplodocus femur: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/non-tyrannosaurs-biting-like-tyrannosaurs/

In this week's episode, we dive into our latest boondocking adventure! We're recording live from a stunning campsite near Vernal, Utah, not far from Dinosaur National Monument. We discuss our recent travels, including our memorable stay at Fort Collins, Colorado, and the unexpected detours that tested our journey.  *Become an RV Miles Mile Marker member and get ONE MONTH FREE  at https://rvmiles.com/milemarkers *Get all the details about Homecoming 2025 here: https://rvmiles.com/homecoming/ Support our Sponsors: *Win a free RV with @LiquifiedRV here: https://liquifiedrv.com/RVMilesRVGiveaway * Harvest Hosts: Save 15% on a Harvest Hosts membership with MILES at https://harvesthosts.com *Check out all Blue Ox has to offer at https://BlueOx.com *Find all the RV parts and gear you need at etrailer: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle-finder.aspx?etam=p0001 *Use code RVMILES15 to get 15% off Travelfi here: https://travlfi.com/?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Ad+Read&utm_campaign=RV+Miles+YouTube+Ad+Read 00:00 Introduction 00:27 Sponsorship Messages 01:33 Welcome to RV Miles Episode 359 01:59 Boondocking in Vernal, Utah 05:52 Family Emergency and Unexpected Travel 09:45 Navigating Car Rental Challenges 25:11 Reuniting with Family in LA 33:09 Exploring Fort Collins, Colorado 40:19 Gate Code and Fees Discussion 40:50 Camping Experience at Horse Tooth Reservoir 42:17 Shoutout to Mile Marker Brian 44:37 Exploring Fort Collins 44:58 Pizza and Dining in Fort Collins 50:36 Rock Climbing and Other Activities 54:14 Drive from Breckenridge to Vernal 01:00:12 Dinosaur National Monument 01:03:27 Travel Challenges and Road Closures 01:14:03 Conclusion and Farewell

Strap on your hiking boots and say goodbye to your spouse. We're pulling off the highway and going on a trek through Dinosaur National Monument with photographer Randy Fullbright. To see Randy's photos for yourself, check out his website or stop by his shop, Fullbright Studios, in Vernal, UT.

  Friends recounted the deadly rafting accident the veteran firefighter did not survive. Officials said Harp was pinned under his raft Thursday after it flipped. He was with a group of about 20 friends rafting down the Green River at Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado. Officials said the accident happened near Hells Half Mile, a section of class-three and class-four rapids on the Green River in the Canyon of Lodore. KSL Investigative Reporter and producer Dave Cawley Joins the show with details of the accident, and Dave shares his experience as a river rafting guide.  

Kami Bakken is a river guide and outdoor advocate, and she currently serves as the Director of the Freeflow Foundation and Director of Ambassador and Grant Programs for Rivers for Change. A native of Minnesota, Kami headed West for college at Colorado State University, where she earned a degree in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources. Since graduating in 2018, she has been fully focused on helping others explore and appreciate the mountains and rivers of the American West, while also advocating for their protection and conservation. - Kami and I met in 2023 when she was the facilitator on my Green River Freeflow Institute workshop through Dinosaur National Monument and the Gates of Lodore. During our weeks of preparation for the course and our five days on the river, I was so impressed by her expertise in outdoor education and river travel, and perhaps more importantly, by her ability to connect with a wide range of people in a sometimes-intense wilderness setting. She's humble yet confident, earnest yet hilarious, and I credit her with so much of the success of that workshop. - When I was in my late 20s and deep in a traditional career in the real estate business, I dreamed of having a life and career like Kami's– one that combined adventure and wide-open spaces with purpose-driven work. So I wanted to chat with her in depth to learn more about how she has made it all happen. If, like I was, you are interested in learning the realities of following a non-traditional but deeply fulfilling career in the outdoors, then you'll definitely learn a lot from Kami. - We met up a few weeks ago at my house in the Springs and had a wide-ranging and funny conversation about her life, career, adventures, and crazy misadventures. We talked about what drew her to Colorado for college, and some of the challenges of adjusting to such a new place and environment where she didn't know anyone. We discussed some of her wild experiences traveling in the West and internationally– including a few run-ins with cult-like groups– and how she took the leap to become a sea kayaking guide and eventually a western river guide. We talk a lot about her commitment to pushing outside of her comfort zone, overcoming fear and discomfort, and why she's drawn to conservation work. We also discuss the financial realities of seasonal work, how her non-profit work compliments her guiding work, her career plans for the future, and her roles with the Freeflow Institute and Foundation. - And it's worth noting that Kami and I will be heading out on the river again this summer for another Freeflow workshop, this time on Oregon's Wild & Scenic Rogue River– August 15th through 20th. As of this recording, there are still a few spots left, so you can follow the link in the episode notes to learn more about the workshop and apply. As of this moment, you can use the secret code “ED200” to get $200 off of the tuition. - A huge thanks to Kami for agreeing to let me ask her a bunch of weird questions, and more importantly, for all of her leadership and support on our river trips. Enjoy! --- Kami on Instagram and LinkedIn Freeflow Institute Freeflow Foundation Upcoming 2024 Freeflow Program on the Rogue River Full episode notes and links: https://mountainandprairie.com/kami-bakken/ --- TOPICS DISCUSSED 4:00 - Where Kami is from 5:00 - Why Kami went to Colorado State, and how her family felt about that decision 9:00 - How her early experience in Colorado led her to WWOOF (and apparently a couple of cults) 15:30 - Kami's return to CSU, and her entry into the world of outdoor recreation 19:30 - Kami's travel adventures post-graduation 22:00 - Kami's time with Protect Our Winters 24:15 - Kami's transition to professional guiding 27:45 - Where Kami's desire for connection and impact led her career next 31:45 - What Kami's friends from college were doing while she was raft guiding, and whether or not she has ever questioned her career path 33:30 - Exploring the difference between contentment and happiness, and some more details about the outdoor education and rafting nonprofit that Kami worked for 37:15 - Kami's transition to the Freeflow Foundation 44:00 - Discussing the Freeflow Foundation 45:45 - Balancing safety with growth driven by risk 50:00 - The trip that Ed and Kami did together on the Green River 54:45 - What makes for a good outdoor guide, and what makes for a bad one 59:00 - Who Kami admires  1:03:00 - Kami's next steps 1:05:45 - What worries Kami 1:09:00 - Kami's book recommendations 1:10:30 - Kami's advice for those who want to try a new lifestyle or career --- ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE: Mountain & Prairie - All Episodes Mountain & Prairie Shop Mountain & Prairie on Instagram Upcoming Events About Ed Roberson Support Mountain & Prairie Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts

Today we talk all things dinosaurs! First we dive into an ongoing case of poaching over 1 million dollars worth of dinosaur fossils from Utah. After, we talk about why some are so valuable, the celebrities with private collections, their history, and the National Parks that preserve them. We love our National Parks and we know you do too but when you're out there, remember to enjoy the view but watch your back. Please take a moment to rate and subscribe from wherever you're listening to NPAD! Become part of our Outsider family on Patreon  or Apple Subscriptions to gain access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more. Follow our socials Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. To share a Trail Tale, suggest a story, access merch, and browse our book recommendations - head over to our website. Thank you so much to our partners, check them out! Mad Rabbit:  For 25% off your order, head to MadRabbit.com/NPAD25 and use code NPAD25. Alo Moves: Use code NPAD to get a free 30-day subscription. Liquid IV: Use code NPAD at checkout to get 20% off you first order. Lume Deodorant: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that's over 40% off) with promo code NPAD at LumeDeodorant.com! #lumepod Resources: https://www.dinosaurhome.com/dinosaur-poachers-are-stealing-fossils-and-its-hurting-science-24522.html#google_vignette https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8847187 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sue https://interactive.wttw.com/prehistoric-road-trip/detours/the-two-paleontologists-who-had-a-bone-to-pick-with-each-other#:~:text=Cope%20had%20been%20working%20on,It%20didn't%20go%20well.

In the northeast corner of Utah, the westernmost entrance to Dinosaur National Monument welcomes visitors along the banks of the Green River, the road separated from the water by desert scrub foliage. The Fossil Discovery Trail snakes through the rugged landscape. The trail erupts in the colors and textures of the desert. Don't be distracted by the scenery to discover the ultimate reward. A far cry from standing in the rotunda of a museum face to face with a dinosaur skeleton too big to miss, here the thrill is in the chase, the chance of finding dinosaur fossils embedded in the rocks.   By Lauren Eisenberg Davis Hosted by Jason Epperson Visit LLBean.com to find great gear for exploring the national parks.  Use promo code PARKS20 to get $20 off your next purchase of $200 or more at solostove.com.

On this day in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the Dinosaur National Monument to protect one of the world's richest known fossil beds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn is joined by Blix, a river guide. They talk about the utility of packrafting, the joys and travails of river travel, the state of waterways in the western United States, and how river guides might have the best names for the worst things. Host Info Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Live Like the World is Dying: Blix on Packrafting **Inmn ** 00:16 Hello, and welcome to Live Like The World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm Inmn, and I'm your host for today. Today I'm being joined by my friend Blix, who is a river guide, and we're going to talk about something that I've been really entranced by but know nothing about and I'm a little terrified by. And that is, traveling on rivers with boats and why it might be a good or bad idea during different emergent disasters. But first, we are a proud member of the Channel Zero Net of anarchist podcasts and here's a jingle from another show on that network. Doo doo doo doo doo doo [Singing the words like an upbeat melody] **Dissident Island Radio ** 01:08 Listen in to Dissident Island Radio live every first and third Friday of the month at 9pm GMT. Check out www.dissidentireland.org for downloads and more. **Inmn ** 01:58 And we're back. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. Could you introduce yourself with your name, pronouns, and what you do in the world? You know, not in an existential sort of way, but what is your connection to packrafting. **Blix ** 02:19 My name is Blix. I use she/they pronouns. I am a river guide in Dinosaur National Monument on the Green River. I like to do more things than just river stuff. I'm really into cycling, and gaming, and anything that gets me outside, but river stuff recently has been my main hobby and passion at the moment. Yeah, what was the last one? What is my "what?" **Inmn ** 02:49 What do you...What is your existential purpose in the world [laughing/joking] **Blix ** 03:02 [Stammers while laughing] I'd like to survive. Yeah. The last one was my connection to packrafting. So initially, I got into river...I mean, I've been doing river stuff since I was a kid. I grew up in northeast Iowa, which is not known for anything river related. Or I mean, there are rivers there, but not in the sense that...not the big water and rapid stuff that you typically hear about with river travel or river hobbies, but I grew up kayaking and canoeing. And then I got a packraft four years ago and I've done a couple pack rafting trips since then. Overnighters. And yeah, I think that was kind of the gateway craft that led me to wanting to be a guide. **Inmn ** 04:02 Yeah, it's funny. I can tell if you were being sarcastic about Idaho rivers **Blix ** 04:08 No, Iowa, Iowa.  **Inmn ** 04:10 Ohhh.  **Blix ** 04:11 Yeah, no. Idaho is very well known for rivers. Yeah, no, Iowa is not...You don't think, "Whoa the rivers in Iowa are amazing." But Idaho, definitely. **Inmn ** 04:25 Yeah, there is--maybe it's not Iowa that I'm thinking of--that it's bordered on each side by rivers. Is that true? **Blix ** 04:35 There's the Mississippi on the east and then on the west I think there is a river but I can't remember... Maybe the Sioux River. **Inmn ** 04:45 Yeah or something. Because there's the...I only know this because of going on bike tour and encountering this bike bro who let us sleep at his house. He just saw us on bikes and was like, "Come over, fellow bike tourists." And we're like, "You know, we need showers." And he told us about something called like, Ragbra... **Blix ** 05:05 Ragbrai. I like Ragbra better. Yeah, yeah. RagBrai is riding from the west side of Iowa to the east, and it changes...the route changes every year. But, I've actually never done it.  **Inmn ** 05:23 It did not really sound fun. Very drunken. **Blix ** 05:25 No, I think it...Yeah. As someone who does not drink, it sounds like my worst nightmare. So, **Inmn ** 05:32 Yeah. But anyways, what...So what is packrafting? **Blix ** 05:38 Yeah, packrafting...So, it's a very specific type of craft where you can deflate it and it's pretty much...the way that I've used it, I've strapped it to the front of my bike. You can shove it in backpacks. It can be made very small, and then when you inflate it, some models of pack rafts, you can take your gear and shove them inside the tubes of the craft so you don't have like a pile of gear on your boat.  **Inmn ** 05:51 Like inside the inflatable part of it?  **Blix ** 06:15 Yes, yep. So I've had friends who've done the Grand Canyon in packrafts--which is nuts and also very impressive to me--but yeah, you can put stuff in the tubes. When you want to get it out, you have to deflate it, obviously. But, you put it all in there, inflate it, you can take it downriver. I know people who've carried a ton of gear, like 50 pounds. I know people who've gone hunting with them. You can obviously, I'm sure you've seen, you can strap your bikes to the front of them as well. **Inmn ** 06:50 This was actually my first question is if you can strap it to your bike, can you also somehow take your bike down river? **Blix ** 06:58 Yeah, yeah, it's...I have a lot of opinions about taking bikes--I think it depends on the river and also your bike. The thing with attaching a bike to a water vessel and then floating down a river is it's really exposed to all the elements. And, bikes and water don't...Like, you don't want to submerge your bike in water. There's a lot of issues that can arise from that. So, it's really hard on your bike. And also it makes the packraft hard to maneuver--obviously because you have this big heavy weight in the front--but you can take the front wheel off your bike, put it on top of the frame, and then you can use straps, and they have strap loops, and--trying to think the word of it--they have places where you can take straps and like loop your bike around so it is fully attached to your packraft. **Inmn ** 07:51 Cool. My first impression from hearing about packrafting is, one, that is exactly what I was hoping it would be. But, I guess some questions within that are that it seems highly versatile or mobile. Which, the the thing about boats that I've always thought is boats are really cool and they're really big and you're kind of tied to a boat, and you're stuck on that body of water where the boat is. But, with this, it seems like you can pretty easily be on the river and then decide to leave the river and take the boat with you? **Blix ** 08:35 Yes, yep. And I think that's why they're so popular. I think they're also more affordable. But, it's a multimodal way to navigate places. And yeah, they've exploded in popularity. And it's kind of funny because packrafts themselves--like there's always been smaller crafts like kayaks and inflatable kayaks--but the packraft is kind of this new concept that's come about where you can pack your gear in the tubes and it packs up super small. Whereas kayaks are this big hard thing of plastic that you have to lug around. You know, same with canoes or even inflatable kayaks. Like, those don't deflate to a point where you'd want to carry them in anything. They're so heavy. So packrafts are kind of this ultralight thing that's come on to the river scene and a lot of parks and monuments--at least the monument I work in, they're not sure what to do with them. They're very particular about...like if you go pack rafting down the river, you have to have a bigger support boat. Like you can't just take your pack raft down the river because it's a single chamber. So, it's just like one...When you inflate it, the whole thing inflates. Whereas, normal rafts...I have another bigger raft. It has four different...or excuse me, mine has two chambers. Giant rafts, like 18 foot rafts, have four chambers and then the floor that inflates. So, the thing with packrafts is if you like pop it or tear it, it's going to be a bad day. And that's, I guess, my only issue with them. But, everything else is great, like how light they are. The trips I've done with packrafts and bikes and anything else, it's really nice to not be lugging around a gigantic raft and all this gear. And, it keeps you from overpacking. **Inmn ** 10:26 Yeah, how small is, "small?" and how light is, "light?" Like, does this fit in your hiking pack? **Blix ** 10:34 Yes, yeah, it could fit in a backpack. Like my handlebars on my bike, it fits in between the grips. Like that's how small it is. I think it packs down to like 8-10 pounds. Like it's, it's still a heavy piece of gear but nothing like a huge 2000 pound raft. You know, to me, I'm like, "Wow, this is very light and small." And then as far as like when you're sitting in it, they make different lengths. But, when I'm sitting in my packraft my feet go all the way to the front of it. And I can't think of how...They would probably be like four feet? Three feet? I don't know. I guess I've never measured mine. I just know that I fit in it. I'm not really a dimensions person. I just know that it's light and it's small. So like really specific stuff--I guess I do know how long my big raft is...But, yeah, with packrafts it's just you in the...Like, there's no room really to put other gear. You can shove stuff up by your feet and behind you, but the main idea is you're putting all of it in the tubes. **Inmn ** 11:40 Yeah, okay. Yeah, I guess hearing that their downfall, I guess, or thing that makes them maybe not a great idea is that they can get punctured. Is that something that's likely to happen. Like, can they get punctured easily? Like, how durable are they? **Blix ** 12:00 I guess the story that comes up is that I went on the Salt River this past spring. That's a river in northeast Arizona. There's like a--It's not the tubing section that everyone thinks about. It's like--whenever I tell people that, they're like, "What? You went whitewater on..." And I'm like, "No." There's an upper section that's a solid class 4 river--which, I suppose I should explain classes maybe after...If you're curious. But yeah, okay. But, basically, the story is we were portaging around this big rapid because I didn't feel comfortable running it. It was the end of the day. And portaging is just finding a route that we're able to walk and carry all our gear. Which, wasn't easy because we were in a very steep narrow canyon. But yeah. Someone dropped their packraft on a cactus, which, you know, you'd think--they popped bike tubes--but, their packraft had multiple holes that needed to be patched. Whereas my...I think the rafts are made of different materials...Like, my raft compared to a packraft...Because the packraft is so light, I don't think they can use as heavy duty material. I know people--and from my own experience--one of our packrafts has like gotten rubbed from paddling. Like the paddle rubbed the side and the side could get rubbed raw and then start to leak air. And I do know a lot of folks with packrafts that have a lot of patches. But, I also know...like this is where it comes into play that you need to be good at not just knowing how to paddle a raft but how to like read a river and know how to navigate water and know what hazards are, because, especially in a packraft, it's such...Like you don't want to tear it. Like even in my raft, I don't want to have a tear, but if you puncture your packraft in a significant way it's gonna sink or just be in a really bad spot. And you're going to be...because it is a single chamber and all your gear is in it...Like, that's a huge risk.  **Inmn ** 14:11 So you might just lose every...  **Blix ** 14:13 You might lose everything. And, I think you would have to mess up significantly for that to happen. But, just knowing certain hazards that I've encountered on rivers and things I've heard from other people...The material my boat's made of is this hypalon. It's really thick. Like. I've rammed it into rocks and like, it's been fine, but I also know if you hit things a certain way the like...like it's almost like a knife has cut through your boat. And I just think yeah, it would just be really...I would be really nervous and a packraft because of the single chamber aspect where if it pops, the whole thing is deflating. Whereas with my boat, if one of my tubes pops, I still have another tube that will stay inflated and I could maybe keep getting down the river...and not lose all my gear. **Inmn ** 15:03 Yeah, yeah. And so I guess with inflatable kayaks, are those usually more durable? Or like have more chambers? **Blix ** 15:13 They have...Each side is a chamber and then the floor is a chamber. The packraft floor is also...Wow, sorry, I usually take my big boat out, so I'm trying...I haven't taken my packraft out in a minute, but, yeah, it's just a big single chamber. But, I know that they're making very sturdy packrafts that can go down class five, like really intense whitewater, that are super durable and capable boats. And I think the technology is getting better because it's becoming so popular. **Inmn ** 15:16 That makes sense. Yeah, I imagine in most things, there's the really dinky one that for maybe nothing more than casual water. **Blix ** 16:02 Yep. No. And it definitely depends. Like, even different companies within the packrafting world use different material. And you can tell just by quality, what's going to be more durable than others. But, inflatable kayaks they are...like you can...We call them duckies. I'm not actually sure why we call them duckies. I've never actually thought about that. Inflatable kayak duckies. But they're very--you can't pack anything in them. So it would just all be shoved at the front of this massive pile. So I think--and also duckies, I don't...They just don't navigate the water as well because they're so long. They just are very awkward to sit on. **Inmn ** 16:46 So, what is involved in planning a river trip, whether that's--I guess specifically in a packraft--but in any kind of river transit with camping situation? **Blix ** 17:01 Yeah, I think it's very similar to backpacking and bike packing in the gear you would take. You can't bring anything super bulky. You have to think about what you can fit in your tubes. A big thing that I look at when I'm planning a river trip are rapids, if there are any, what classes they are. I look at predicted flows of the river, and at what point is it flood stage, and at what point is it too low for me to run it. And this is, I think, more specific for rivers out in the West that are very susceptible to flooding and flash flooding and drying up. And then, I mean, I'm looking at the weather too. Like, do I need to bring rain jackets or food. I don't know. It's really similar to backpacking is the only way I can think about it, where I'm bringing sleeping bags and normal things that I would bring on a trip like that. I think the only difference is water. Like, you're on it so you can just bring some type of treatment to treat it. And then, figuring out where to camp along the river can be complex and complicated as well if there's like private land or, I think again,  this is river dependent, if you're in a canyon there's only certain spots you can stop. So, you have to be aware of like, "I have to go this many miles today. I have to," because there are no other places to stop. And, also paying attention to water temperature and how that'll dictate if I'm wearing normal just active clothes or if I'm wearing a dry suit or a wet suit. And then, if it's a multimodal trip, which is if I'm bringing my bike or if it's just solely a river trip to be a river trip. I think also, I mean, you have to bring poop tubes. Like, you're not really allowed to... **Inmn ** 17:10 Poop tubes? [Confused] **Blix ** 19:00 Poop tubes. Like a PVC...You can do it yourself, but you can make one out of PVC pipe. Have one enclosed so you can pack out your poop.  **Inmn ** 19:15 Okay. [Realizing what a poop tube is] **Blix ** 19:16 Yeah, sorry. You have to poop through a tube. [Joking] No, that's not what's going on. But, with bigger rafts and bigger trips we bring something called a Groover, which is this big, basically, toilet so you're packing all that out. Because, if you're all going to the bathroom on like the same beaches and campgrounds and there's not many of them, it turns into a litter box and it's really gross.  **Inmn ** 19:41 I see. I've heard of this on--and maybe it seems like more...Curious on your perspective. So, I've heard of this on especially popular hiking trails and especially multi-day hiking trails that there are spaces where they've literally just become large toilets. And there's so much human shit around buried. It's a big problem ecologically.  **Blix ** 20:12 No, I think I've read a study where I feel like in a lot of national forest and parks the ground is just...they test soil and it always includes human feces, which is deeply disturbing to me. But, I honestly think--and maybe this is a hot take--I think river folks and people who are on the river are really good at packing out feces. And with...Only because--especially in canyons--and maybe this is different out east--but again, there are only these small little spaces that can be used for camping. So again, if somebody shits everywhere, for some reason, people are going to know. And also the National Monument, at least where I work, keeps track of who's camping--because they assigned campsites to people where they can go--so they would probably know the party that like pooped everywhere. And also, they won't let you on the river unless you have a Groover or a way to pack out your feces. Like, they won't let you. They check your gear list. So, it's a highly regulated and permitted activity. For now. That could change. But even then...I...Yeah, you just have to pack out your poop. And then we all pee in the river. That's just what you do. But yeah, I think typically river folks are better than hiking and yeah...There's emergencies, but we're always carrying Wag Bags too.  **Inmn ** 21:49 Wag Bags?  **Blix ** 21:50 It's basically like a dog bag for your own poop, right? Yeah. Yep. **Inmn ** 22:00 Wow. The river community is certainly, I feel like, better than a lot of other niche sub groups at naming things. **Blix ** 22:09 Oh, yeah. I think it...Even like rapids where I'm like, "Really? This is...this is what this rapid is called?" Like...  **Inmn ** 22:19 Like what?  **Blix ** 22:22 I think a lot of them are just intense names. But, like one of them's called Schoolboy or like Fluffy Bunny Rapid or whatever the hell. And, it's like this is...Yeah, I don't know. We have, I feel like, nicknames for a lot of stuff, but...I guess it separates us from the other people? [Said unconvincingly] But, I think guides and river folk also get a bad rap for being adrenaline junkie, like really intense, obnoxious people. So, I won't say that it's a perfect community by any means because it's not, but it's definitely creative. **Inmn ** 23:03 What are some of the dangers of river travel in general, but I guess, you know, specifically we're talking about packrafting or camping as you raft. **Blix ** 23:13 Oh, man. Yeah, there's a lot. I'm trying to think of what I talk about in my safety talk of things we need to be aware of as people on rivers. I think, in general, with any outdoor activity there's the risks of cuts and bruises and broken bones and infections and just things that can happen day to day even if you're not on a river. So, like camp dangers. Which, I think a big thing with rivers that I see are like injured feet with people taking their shoes off on beaches and then running around and running into the water and getting a stick up their foot. [Inmn makes a horrified reaction noise] Yeah, or cutting their foot on a rock. But, river specific dangers, my own standard is I never want to be in the water. Like, out of my boat in the water. I don't enjoy swimming whitewater. It's a personal project I've tried to work on this past summer by forcing myself to swim in rapids. But, hazards that I think of for packrafting is the same with any other--like even if I was in a big raft I'd be thinking about the same thing--but, Keeper Holes, which is a funny...So think about a huge boulder or rock in a river and there's water pouring over it. There's certain...We call them holes because it creates this like giant space behind the rock where the water is kind of...it can recirculate. And if you fall in, or not fall, but float or are getting carried downstream into one of these, there is a risk that you will not be able to swim out of it where you're just getting recirculated underwater.   **Inmn ** 24:59 I see, yeah.  **Blix ** 25:00 Eternally.  **Inmn ** 25:01 Eternally.  **Blix ** 25:02 Yeah. And, I know you said you have fears about rivers. I don't want to freak you out, but... **Inmn ** 25:11 No, please.  **Blix ** 25:13 Okay.  **Inmn ** 25:14 Yeah, I have an utter fascination with water and water travel and also a, you know, horrifying fear of water, which is weird because I'm a triple water sign, but moderately terrified. **Blix ** 25:28 I think it's okay to be afraid of rivers, because when things go wrong, they go wrong very quickly. And you also are on a timeline if someone is in the water, if that makes sense. But, another thing that I think about for hazards is something called a Strainer. So that's when... **Inmn ** 25:29 Y'all are really good at naming things. **Blix ** 25:29 I know, I know. It's terrifying. So, it's when a tree or log falls into the river. And, the way I describe it in my safety talk is when you use strainers at home and you dump the water through, the water goes through, but the noodles get stuck, right?  **Inmn ** 26:10 Yeah.  **Blix ** 26:10 We are human noodles.  **Inmn ** 26:12 Oh God.  **Blix ** 26:12 So, when there's logs or sticks, they tend to pile up in the river and create this huge entrapment hazard. So, if you get flushed into one of those, it's pretty difficult to get out. Like, you will probably get trapped. Another thing is something called foot entrapment, which happens when rivers are shallower. And this is when you're in the water and you can feel the bottom of the river and you're thinking, "Oh, I'm gonna stand up to stop myself." So, you stand up. There's tons of rocks and sticks under the water. Your foot can get stuck under them and push you underwater because you're still...like the pressure of the water is still coming on to you. Does that makes sense? [Inmn makes an affirmative sound] So, you don't ever want to stop yourself with your feet. **Inmn ** 27:01 Okay, that would be my first instinct. **Blix ** 27:04 Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, that's a huge hazard. It's super easy to avoid. For me, that would be the scariest thing that could happen hazard-wise on a river, as my own person. And...because your instinct is "I'm gonna put my feet down to stand up." Yeah, but I've had close calls with foot entrapment. And, if you have even one of them, you will never do it again, just because of how quick the water will push you under. Super scary. Another hazard...[Laughing. Overwhelmed] I'll just keep going? **Inmn ** 27:41 Please tell me all of the ways that I can perish on the river. Which will definitely mean that I will try packrafting. [Dry and sarcastic] **Blix ** 27:49 Yeah. I think you should. It's super fun. I think, again, being aware of these hazards and knowing what to do in situations or read the river. Reading rivers is going to empower you. And I think fear is just a lot of what we don't understand or know, right? And on rivers like--I mean, there's also very legitimate fears of like, "This is fucked."--but, rivers, usually if I can see a log in the river, I know to not go near it. If I'm in the water, I know not to stand up and put my feet down to stop myself. But... **Inmn ** 28:31 No, that makes sense. That is the line that we keep saying on this podcast is preparedness is all about preparing for things that you're afraid of so that you don't have to think about them anymore because you have a plan. And this seems to just be that.  **Blix ** 28:48 Yeah. No, and I'm terrified of all these things, but I should know what to do if that happens. Yeah, there's... I'm trying to think. Other hazards are like Sieves where it's like rock fall and it funnels you through a really tight space and you can get jammed in there. Undercut walls or rocks is when the water erodes away the space underneath it and creates a pocket for you to get sucked under and into. [Inmn makes noises of terror] I'm so sorry. **Inmn ** 29:24 You all can't see me obviously. But, I assume I have this look of just visceral terror.  **Blix ** 29:31 Yeah, that's all right. That's...Usually when I give a safety talk, everyone's faces turn from excitement to complete terror. Or, sometimes kids start crying and I'm like, "Okay, let's go have fun on the river today!" Those are kind of the big ones that I can think of off the top of my head besides drowning. Drowning is...You know, cold water is a huge one where if you're In the water and it's freezing, your body is gonna start shutting down. I think you have 10 minutes to like figure it out.  **Inmn ** 30:07 Ten minutes!?   **Blix ** 30:07 Yeah. I think sometimes even less time. **Inmn ** 30:10 In like what temperature water? **Blix ** 30:14 Um. Oh geez. I feel like 50 degrees, maybe 60? I think it also is body dependent and how well your body is insulated or able to keep warm. Yeah, there's definitely...Like, the start of my season, I'm wearing a dry suit. Which is...Are you? I guess I could explain?  **Inmn ** 30:38 Yeah, a dry suit keeps you dry. Wetsuit keeps you a little bit wet but in a way that is insulative and warm? **Blix ** 30:45 Yeah, so like wetsuits work by, you get wet, but the water close to your body, that's contained in the wetsuit, warms up to your body temperature. So, it's keeping you--at least that's how I understand it--so, it's keeping you somewhat warm. Dry suit is a suit you wear that has gaskets over your wrists and neck and your feet. You're completely enclosed in this goretex super suit. You look super cool. But nothing...You could wear street clothes underneath and they would stay perfectly dry. **Inmn ** 31:17 So you can go LARP [Live Action Role Play] in your like "Dune" LARP?  **Blix ** 31:22 Yeah,basically, it's like a...What is it, still suit? But the opposite. It's not keeping moisture in. Just keeping you dry and warm, hopefully. But yeah. Those are like the hazards I can think of off the top of my head. **Inmn ** 31:39 And then there's the obvious ones, like anything related to camping or being outdoors? **Blix ** 31:43 Yeah. And, you know, you probably want to wear a helmet when you're rafting because of impacts with rocks or...You know, like, there's a lot of things that can go wrong once you're in the water, depending on what kind of rapid you're in or anything like that. **Inmn ** 32:03 Yeah. And there's a thing called swiftwater rescue? **Blix ** 32:11 Yep, um, I am swiftwater rescue certified. And I think if anyone is doing any type of river activity that you should definitely take the class. I don't know. It's expensive, but the knowledge you gained from it, I think, just keeps not only yourself safe as you can be on the river but everybody else around you. And it teaches you things like wading correctly, you know, throw bag techniques, if you wrap a boat, or how to unpin a raft that's wrapped around a rock potentially, techniques for helping people who are like in a foot entrapment situation, which isn't great, swimming out to people, how to swim in whitewater, or try to swim in Whitewater, how to, if you can't get away from a strainer, what to do if you are coming upon logs and sticks in the water. I will say my swiftwater class kind of terrified me because it just made me hyper aware of everything that could go wrong and then what I would possibly have to do to help somebody. But yeah, super intense class physically and mentally. And, yeah, it taught me a lot. But I do feel like I would be able to help in a rescue situation instead of just being some random person who's like just panicking and being like, "I don't know what to do!" So, that feels good. But I would probably still panic to a certain degree. **Inmn ** 33:52 That makes sense, because the principle of any kind of first aid or rescue is, "Don't become another patient."  **Blix ** 34:02 Right?  **Inmn ** 34:03 And so, if you're not trained to rescue someone from one of those situations,  it might be just more dangerous to try to rescue them. **Blix ** 34:13 Yeah. And it's frustrating. It makes me think, like, I take a lot of families down the river and there's, you know, small kids. And, parents always make the comment, "Well, if my kid goes in, I'm gonna jump in after them," which is, you know, then me as a guide, I have to figure out in that scenario, possibly, "Am I saving the parent or the kid?"  **Inmn ** 34:14 Yeah.  **Blix ** 34:14 If I can. Obviously, I want to try to save both but...and I always tell parents, "Hey, if you're not trained in swiftwater rescue, I would not recommend jumping out of my raft to help your kid. You're more help to me in this raft than you are in the water trying to help your child." **Inmn ** 35:02 Yeah. Do you ever just tell them bluntly, "If you do that, then I will be in a situation where I have to choose between which one of you to save." **Blix ** 35:11 Yeah, no. Yeah, I do tell them that if they're being very serious about it and I also try to remind folks that untrained first responders have a very high mortality rate. Which, it's like, you know, I don't understand because I don't have children, but I've seen people I care about swimming in rapids and of course I want to help them but jumping into whitewater is never a good solution. But yeah, I do tell them, "You're gonna make me have a really hard decision to save you or your child, possibly." So. Yeah, it just makes it more complicated. **Inmn ** 36:02 To switch gears a little bit, you know, away from all the grim horror...  **Blix ** 36:07 Yeah.  **Inmn ** 36:08 ...And into some more but differently contextualized grim horror. So, one of the big reasons I wanted to have someone on to talk about packrafting is that we have a lot of...I think knowing different ways to travel is incredibly important and, you know, coupled with my fear of water but also my fascination with water and boat travel, is when I saw "Fellowship of the Ring" when I was ten all I could think about was boat travel, boat travel, boat travel. **Blix ** 36:49 As one does when they watch that movie, more so than anything else in that movie. [Laughing] **Inmn ** 36:53 Yeah, they really...They really made a fun choice...or Tolkein when writing that and they're like, "And then they got on boats," and it's like holy crap. Incredible. How do I get a boat? **Blix ** 37:05 How do I get a boat that looks that cool?  **Inmn ** 37:09 How do I get a boat that looks that cool? And, you know, I feel like the boats that they have in that book are, they're made by elves, and so they're kind of packraftish in that they're abnormally light.  **Blix ** 37:24 Yes.  **Inmn ** 37:25 And so they like do--I'm going to use a fun word that I just learned, I think--portage.  **Blix ** 37:30 Yes.  **Inmn ** 37:31 They get the points where they're like, "Yeah, that's a waterfall. I guess we're gonna pick up the boat and carry it around." **Blix ** 37:37 Yeah. And it's a super light elf boat, so it weighs nothing. I'm sure that one person could carry it, knowing the elves. **Inmn ** 37:43 Yeah. But, the part that was really interesting to me, too, is the reasons why they took to the river and why I'm interested in learning about packrafting, which is, you know, the big reason that they did that was to sneak past the orcs ,which...or the enemy who had all the roads watched, they had the woods patrolled, and they were suddenly in the situation where they were like, "Well, we got to get there somehow."  And so, they took to the river. And so, the thing that I...The piece that I want to bring into the context now is from a situation of preparedness, whether that's preparing for road closures due to the malicious setting of checkpoints or the road is destroyed due to some other kind of disaster...You know, these disasters could be that a right-wing militia has taken over your state, and you're trying to leave that state right, to a more environmentally related disaster has destroyed some kind of key infrastructure, and you are looking for an alternative means to get somewhere. And yeah, I'm curious...I'm wondering if you have ever thought about this and if you have any opinions if...would packrafting help you? Could packrafting be a useful thing in your preparedness kit? **Blix ** 39:18 Yeah, I've definitely thought about this. I think it...Well, it depends. I think in Arizona, we don't have a ton of rivers that we could--and they all for the most part are like...you know, there is an endpoint. And they are going literally...Like, once you're on the river, you are stuck going that way. I do think because of...Getting to the entry point--I'm just thinking of the Salt river because it's the river that we have here. Also, you could do the Grand Canyon, but that's really intense... **Inmn ** 39:59 And like maybe our context out here in the west in Arizona is like...It's not specifically what I'm thinking of. **Blix ** 40:06 Yeah, just in general. **Inmn ** 40:07 Where, there's obviously other places with much more dense and spread out waterways.  **Blix ** 40:13 Yeah. I think it would be a very quick and efficient way to travel if you had a specific place you're going to along that route because you're not encumbered by like...Like, if people are backpacking or biking, you can't just start cutting...Like, backpacking you could cut right into a forest. But, if I was on a bike, I couldn't just turn my bike off the road and just start riding through a forest. Like, that would be super slow. I'd probably be walking my bike a lot. Whereas with river travel, you can go--I think it's, again, river dependent on the speed of the water and a lot of that stuff...But, I don't imagine that people would be patrolling waterways the way they would do with roads. The only thing I think about is if you're on a river anywhere, you'd have to think about when I need to exit before I get to go past a town or go under a bridge, because I think bridges would be huge points where people would post up at, or entry points into a certain area. So, you'd have to think about when I would need to get off to avoid those places. And then how would I get back onto the river? Can I get back onto it? Is there an access point? I'd be thinking about, you know, are their dams on the way? But yeah, honestly, if I could find a way to get onto the Salt River, I would try to post up in there for a while. Especially during the initial fallout. Because I think, if I can anticipate that and get to the river, I could stay in there with enough food in my packraft to be there for maybe two or three weeks because I have unlimited water for the most part, if the Salt's flowing, but it's a very steep narrow canyon that people can't access very well. But, I do wonder if other people would have the same idea with like, "There's water there. And it's hard to get to." **Inmn ** 40:14 Yeah, like, that's the interesting thing about it is it provides these weird little--not like short cuts--but these fairly easy routes through a lot of places that could otherwise be hard to access, but you're also then stuck on it. So yeah, it seems like a double-edge sword. **Blix ** 42:16 It is. And I think, especially with really remote rivers, like even the rivers that I guide on, there's pretty much one way to get in, and then you're in a canyon for a really long time, and there's one way to get out. And like there's a few evacuation points here and there that we've used--they're not great to hike out of--but, I would worry that those sites would also be...Like, would people think to have guards there or set up there to catch people coming down the river? You know? Like, possibly. You know, who knows? I also just...I don't think like...Like, when I think right-wing militia, I feel like they all have jet boats. So, they're not going to be thinking about these little streams and stuff that you can take a packraft on. **Inmn ** 43:37 Yeah, and there's so many weird small water arrays. You know, not here in Arizona, but... **Blix ** 43:41 Right. Well, I'm just thinking like Minnesota, there's tons of creeks and rivers and lakes and there's islands in the lakes that are...Like, think places you can get to that you could like...If it's only accessible via water, you could have stashes there that other people couldn't get to. **Inmn ** 44:02 Yeah. So, a weird dream that I had as a 20 year old oogle.  **Blix ** 44:10 Yes. Perfect. [Laughing] **Inmn ** 44:15 Was to set up funny little like--I didn't realize that I was thinking about this like being a prepper--I was like, "I want to set up all these like little caches. Like, I want to build these weird sheds with bikes and little like inflatable rafts and food stores underneath them. And so you could just, you know, ride trains or whatever and just end up at the weird little safe house, bunker ,like whatever, cache. I got weirdly obsessed with it. I wish that I had been cool enough to have actually done it, but I absolutely did not. Only fantasized about it.  **Blix ** 44:54 No, I think...I do think it's a great option. I don't think it's the end-all thing that you should completely stick to. I think it should be like a multimodal thing. I think, honestly, backpacking and packrafting is like the best combination. Because, I think about with just backpacking, like what if there is a river you need to cross? Or, a body of water that you have to cross and you don't want to swim with a huge backpack? I don't know. I just...And I don't think people...Like, they're gonna be traveling by road, bikes, cars, like I don't think packrafts are well known enough, currently, that people would be looking for crafts in water, especially in smaller waterways. **Inmn ** 44:54 Yeah, yeah. And I feel like that is exactly what the Fellowship of the Ring thought. **Blix ** 45:50 Yes. Yes. I also think...One thing is like, what if the orcs just went to the river edge? They could just pick them off. Like they're moving fast, but I also think you could shoot arrows at them? **Inmn ** 46:09 So, they did at some point. They only traveled at night to make it harder for them to shoot at them. **Blix ** 46:14 Yeah, Right. Right. No, it's okay. **Inmn ** 46:17 But, you know, we do have this dissimilar...We're not on an equal playing field with like bows and arrows in the dark vs the kind of technology that people have access to now with guns and things like that. That would be my first thing is like, if I was going down a major waterway in a canyon, like I would probably not choose this as a way to escape a militia. Like, you're on a canyon wall with a long range gun... **Blix ** 46:47 Yeah, for sure. **Inmn ** 46:48 ...And I'm a tiny slow moving object out in the open... **Blix ** 46:51 Right. No, It's something that I also think about where it would be so easy to just put yourself in a really bad spot if you chose the wrong waterway to go on. Like, I would never be like, "I would use a packraft to travel the Mississippi in those types of times," because I think people would just be near them. I do think though, like, hard to access canyons are still...Like, if you needed to just lay low for a while, would be the place to go. Because, I think the amount of effort it would take to post up on a canyon edge in some of those places is astronomical. Like, no one, I feel like, is going to go--unless you're someone who was really important for people to get to or--like, no one's going to put in that effort, especially in the desert with water being so scarce and like...Yeah. **Inmn ** 46:52 Yeah, Always fun to think about these, you know...Like, "fun." ["Fun," said in a dry sarcastic and questioning way] These terror fantasies that we might be encountered with in the next decade or...currently of far-right violence and having to figure out creative ways to escape it. But, also always want to think about more environmentally related disasters. Like I think...It's like there's things that I...I get really scared here in the desert. Like, one of the big things that I am scared of is getting physically trapped here if there's like gas and energy crisis. **Blix ** 48:33 Oh, right. Yes. Yeah. **Inmn ** 48:34 Figuring out alternative ways to leave--which like, packrafting is not the solution to do that--but thinking about in other places, like, you know, if we're not expecting...like, if our main threat model isn't far-right violence, could packrafting or river travel in general--and maybe we're graduating to the larger raft at this point--could river travel be a helpful thing during other kinds of disasters? **Blix ** 49:06 I think, well, I think of forest fires, like escaping to a body of water or a canyon is a great way to try to mitigate being trapped in a forest that's literally on fire. Because a lot...hopefully nothing's going to catch on fire in the water. That'd be wild.  **Inmn ** 49:06 Stranger things have happened. **Blix ** 49:06 Yeah, I know. So yeah, I think as a means to escape forest fires is great. I think the one thing I think about, especially here in the West, is where our water is going to go. And as someone who guides on a tributary to the Grand Canyon, and the Grand Canyon obviously feeding into Lake Powell and Glenn Canyon and all that stuff, people are constantly talking about water and water rights. And, you know, my fear is that we're...People are going to start hoarding. And by people, I mean, companies and government, they're going to hoard water in these giant reservoirs. And, they're not going to release any to fill up canyons and river beds because it's just going to be such a critical resource. And my thought is that when it gets to that point, they are going to shut off the reservoirs from releasing water and they are just going to keep all of it.  **Inmn ** 49:44 Oh no. **Blix ** 50:18 And, I don't know that river travel will be feasible in the West, except if it's on an undammed river, which there's only...I think the Yampa River, which is a river I guide on, is the last undammed tributary to the Grand Canyon. It is like one of the last wild rivers, which is super susceptible to floods. So, that's another disaster. Whereas with climate change, we're getting these more extreme...Like, they had almost record breaking snowfall in Colorado in the area that feeds into this river. So, the river was flowing at this...It was fine at like 22,000 CFS, which is cubic feet per second. And the way I describe this to people, it's like if I threw a rope from one riverbank to the other, and every second 22,000 basketball sized amounts of water is flowing by.  **Inmn ** 51:35 Wow.   **Blix ** 51:35 Or you could say baby-sized. 22,000 babies are floating by every second. So, it's a ton of water, which being on a river that has that...And so it can be up to, you know, I think the highest flow the Yampa has ever been is like 30,000, which is...I can't even fathom how scary that river would be. But, it can go all the way down to no flow at all. So like, if you can't...if people take out river gauges there's no way of knowing what the flows are going to be for rivers. You would have to show up there with your watercraft and be like, "Well, I hope there's water for me to escape," which I think river travel in the east or a place where there's more water is a better solution than river travel out here in the West. But, as far as natural disasters go and things that could happen, like, if you're trying to escape somewhere due to that, I think we're in a pretty not great place here. Like, the only river I can think of would be going down the Grand. Which is really big water. It ends in...you know, like...You know, like, it's so dependent on...and especially like what if they blow up dams? What if they blow up the reservoirs? Which, what if you're camped along that canyon and someone upstream blows up the reservoir? This is again, all things I've thought about, where it's like, you're gonna get washed away. **Inmn ** 53:11 Yeah, very true. They did just do that in Ukraine. Russia blew up the largest reservoir in Europe. **Blix ** 53:20 Oh, wait. Yes. Yeah, I did see that. Yep. So that's something...I mean, it's something I think about where I think people would blow that up, especially if people downstream needed water. **Inmn ** 53:34 Yeah. Yeah. **Blix ** 53:38 Sorry this is...[Both making sounds about how grim this all is] But...I know...But, I also think the river lends itself to...You know, like, there's fish. You can eat fish, you can...There's lots of food and really fertile soil that can grow along rivers. So, if you had to post up and figure it out, like, I would want to be close to a body of water. **Inmn ** 54:03 Thank you for bringing it back to hope and why this could be helpful. **Blix ** 54:05 Yeah, right. And I think a thing with river stuff as well, and why I love it so much, is it's not an activity that you necessarily want to do alone. In fact, I would like recommend that no one do any river activity alone. But like, you want to be with a community of people on the water, like setting up safety, and sending someone downstream to check that there's no river hazards, and then like having people come through, and you're working as a team constantly. And, you can have people...Like, if someone is injured, someone else could take more gear and like it's...You can carry more things in a pack raft than you could on your back because like--I mean, eventually I think you'd have to carry them on your back--but the water is going to help you with that weight. Or, you can even pull another empty packraft behind you with more gear. Yeah, I think I would very much want to be close to a body or water or a river of some kind. **Inmn ** 54:07 Cool. Um, I think I...One of my last questions is--I'm expecting the answer to be grim again [Blix makes a disappointing groan]--but I'm curious as someone who like works on waterways in the West, how are they? What are they like with climate change? **Blix ** 55:26 Oh, yeah. River or the canyons or the water itself? **Inmn ** 55:33 Everything. Yeah, water and canyons in the West. Yeah, I'm terrified to hear the answer. **Blix ** 55:42 So, I think I notice...Like, when they had to fill up Glen Canyon, I think it was last year, they did a big dam release from the Flaming Gorge dam, which is up river where I guide. So, I'm kind of hyper aware of when shit is bad downstream because they have to do these big releases. But I know this year was a really good year for rivers, especially the ones I guide on, because of the large snowfall that they got in Colorado. Like, we had really high nice water forever. The rivers were all really healthy. But, I think I've...Two years ago I took a group of politicians from Utah down the river. They were like Congress people. Because my company did it. I wasn't like, "I want to take these people..." No, I would never be like, "I want to take these people down the river." But< the point of it was to show these--they were all men--to show these men that the rivers were worth saving, and not like damming up, not drilling for oil and everything in this area. And the moment we got back in the vans to shuttle back, they started talking about canyons they had seen to dam up along the route we had gone on.  **Inmn ** 57:04 Oh my god.  **Blix ** 57:07 But, I think it's because all the water that I guide on is already owned by somebody downstream. **Inmn ** 57:18 Okay, like, “owned by” because it gets used? **Blix ** 57:21 Yes. Like, the Green River gives water to 33 million people. But, it's bizarre to think about water as being something that's owned? **Inmn ** 57:40 I thought it was like that one thing that wasn't for a while. **Blix ** 57:43 Same. No, it's coming to light that it has been. Yeah. But, we mention that to a lot of people we take down the river that all this water belongs to somebody else. Like, this is not ours. This is not like our collective water. **Inmn ** 58:00 Yeah. It's not here for our collective survival. **Blix ** 58:03 Yeah, no, it's for somebody downstream. Which, I mean, they need water too. But I think it's...honestly the rivers I guide on--and maybe this is again is a hot take--but I am not hopeful that they will flow within the next 10 years. I think as water rights and like water wars become more prevalent, I think states are going to start withholding. Like, I think Flaming Gorge is mostly in Wyoming and they could decide to just not--I think it would have a chain reaction if they decided to not leave water let water out. Because all the farms downstream would die. Blah, blah, blah. People would be without that. But um, yeah. But, I'm also, with climate change, it was odd. Like, the first year I worked there, there was no water, there was hardly any water coming down the river. It was super low. Our boats were getting stuck. And I just became hyper aware of how fucked stuff was for some reason. But then this year was so good for water that I was like, "Oh, maybe it won't be so bad." But then I keep...You know, like I think it really...Who's to say? If they dam up more rivers, which I think they might start, then I think that's going to change the game a lot for river travel and it's going to be really dependent on how much water we have access to. **Inmn ** 58:03 Yeah, yeah. Which, that's one of the big key problems is not necessarily there being lack of water, but rather that water is being mismanaged or hoarded. **Blix ** 59:46 Yeah, I think it's a combination of all of that. And where I guide it's desert, but then the valley after the canyon is all alfalfa fields, which is a really water intensive crop.  So then and I...Like, they flood their fields. And it's just like this disconnect of this is not like an infinite resource. And, it's interesting to me that that is this...Yeah, there's a whole lot to unpack with water rights and water usage. And, I think that could even trickle to out East. You know, because who's to say that they won't suffer droughts and experience creeks and rivers drying up? But...I know that is kind of a grim answer. But... **Inmn ** 59:47 The name of the show is Live Like the World is Dying.  **Blix ** 1:00:46 True.  **Inmn ** 1:00:47 Okay. Well, that's about all the time that we have for today. Is there? Is there anything else? Is there anything that I didn't ask you that I should have asked you or that you would really love to bring into the conversation? Or have any last words of hope for the river? Or just like why...Is packrafting fun? Is it just fun? **Blix ** 1:01:13 It is fun. Yeah, I really want to encourage anyone who's curious about going on rivers or river travel, I love it. Because, I think I mentioned, it's such a community oriented activity versus backpacking and bike packing and other stuff I do that's very, "You're the individual out there fending for yourself," for river stuff I really love because you're always working as a team. You're always trying to keep everybody safe. You learn a lot about yourself. Learning to read rivers, I think, is like a superhero skill. Like, I feel like a tracker. Like, I feel like Aragorn, like, "Oh, I can read this like little miniscule thing that maybe other people missed. And I know..." Like, it's a really cool thing to look at a river and being able to tell what is causing certain waves or currents. Understanding that, I think is...Even if you're just someone who has to cross a river every now then, whether you're backpacking or bikepacking, like being able to figure out the safest place to cross is an important skill to have. But, river river travel and rafting and all that is super fun. Yeah, I would love to have more friends who do river stuff. So yeah. **Inmn ** 1:01:22 Cool. Well, thanks so much for coming on. And good luck on the river. **Blix ** 1:02:38 Thank you so much. **Inmn ** 1:02:43 Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed the show then go packrafting with your bike and then please tell me about it or invite me along to live out my "Lord of the Rings" fantasies. Or, you can just tell people about the show. You can support this podcast by telling people about it. You can support the show by talking about it on social media, by rating, and reviewing, and doing whatever the nameless algorithm calls for. And, you can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our Patreon helps pay for things like transcriptions or our lovely audio editor, Bursts, as well as going to support our publisher, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is the publisher of this podcast and a few other podcasts, including my other show Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. I'm trying to see how many times I can say the name of the project at one time. But, that is a monthly podcast of anarchists literature. And then there's the Anarcho Geek Power Hour, which is a good podcast for people who love movies and hate cops. And, we would like to shout out some of our patrons in particular. Thank you so much. Perceval, Buck, Jacob, Catgut, Marm, Carson, Lord Harken, Trixter, Princess Miranda, BenBen, anonymous, Funder, Janice & Odell, Aly, paparouna, Milica, Boise Mutual Aid, theo, Hunter, S.J., Paige, Nicole, David, Dana, Chelsea, Staro, Jenipher, Kirk, Chris, Michaiah, and Hoss the Dog. Thank you so much. We could seriously not do any of this without y'all. And I hope that everyone is doing as well as they can with everything that's going on and we will talk to you soon. 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This series of episodes documents our recent trip to Colorado and Utah. My goal in creating these episodes is to lay out a travel itinerary for you to follow, inspire you/others to travel and to document our trip for our family's records. You can expect some narrative along with a great deal of detail about the places we visited. Enjoy Part 1...Grand Junction CO, Colorado National Monument, Grand Mesa, Dinosaur National Monument and Glenwood Springs. ... Get our new #1 Best Seller. GREAT for students and schools: Go Figure To inquire about assemblies and speaking: Speaking Form Purchase all your books here: Spaniard Show Reading List Get my two books here: DRIVEN, Becoming the World's Toughest Lifelong Learner Connect on social media: Instagram: @charliespaniard YouTube: Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman Facebook: Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman Twitter: @charliespaniard

Today - it's time to talk music again with Sun writer Kevin Simpson and G. Brown, director of the Colorado Music Experience.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we revisit a feature story on the growing field of archeoastronomy. This piece first aired around the summer solstice in June 2022. Thanks for listening! // Original Broadcast https://www.kzmu.org/the-people-chasing-sunlight-inside-the-growing-field-of-archaeoastronomy/ // Photo: A spear of light is seen on the summer solstice at McKee Springs in Dinosaur National Monument. Credit John Lundwall

Big Blend Radio's new BIG WEEKLY BLEND podcast (formerly the Big Daily Blend) covering the holidays, pop culture, and historic happenings that span the week of May 28-June 2, 2023. Airing every Sunday, this show is a companion production of the new Big Weekly Blend digital magazine. Check out the show notes below for links to the music playlist, articles, recipes, and puzzles that connect with and celebrate this week's holidays, celebrations, and observances.   FEATURED GUESTS: - Musician and cohost Joey Stuckey - https://www.joeystuckey.com/  - Military author and historian Mike Guardia - https://mikeguardia.com/  - Mike Dunmyer of US Wind Inc. - https://uswindinc.com/   MUSIC PLAYLIST: - On YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHUZITwHVJLqyF094PF79ZPLizyzjSXP  - On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1U828NYgagQRMoctc1jEWW?si=bf25e393630f4125   ARTICLES, PODCASTS, RECIPES & PUZZLES:  -  The Combat Diaries - https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/mike-guardia-the-combat-diaries/  - Military Memorials - https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/veterans-memorials/   - US Wind Inc. Offshore Wine Energy - https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/us-wind-inc-offshore-wind-energy-on-the-east-coast/  - The ShackBurger - https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/the-shackburger/  - Dessert by the Light of the Moon - https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/dessert-by-the-light-of-the-moon/  - Queen Creek Olive Mill - https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/arizona-finds-queen-creek-olive-mill/  - Dinosaur National Monument - https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/this-dinosaur-boneyard-is-worth-the-detour/  - East Tennessee Farm Stay - https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/east-tennessee-farm-stay/  - Lincoln Homestead Kentucky State Park - https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/lincoln-homestead-kentucky-state-park/  - The All-American Donut - https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/the-all-american-donut/ 

I met Chandra Brown through the podcast more than four years ago, and with each passing year, I've been more and more inspired by her life and work. You may remember that she's the founder of Freeflow Institute, a Montana-based organization that curates immersive outdoor learning experiences in Earth's wildest classrooms. What started with combining summer river trips with writing workshops taught by some of the West's greatest authors has turned into a year-round, immersive curriculum that incorporates many forms of art and storytelling. - If you've listened to a lot of Mountain & Prairie episodes, then you will recognize many past and present Freeflow Instructors– Hal Herring, Bill deBuys, Chris La Tray, Heather Hansman, Anna Brones, Brendan Leonard, Alexis Bonogofsky, and Elliott Woods. And you'll also recognize the Freeflow classrooms, which include the Salmon River, Green River, Big Blackfoot River, San Juan Islands, and the canyon country of Southwest Colorado. The overlap between what Chandra has built at Freeflow and what we're all doing here in Mountain & Prairie is significant, so I was excited to have Chandra join me for another conversation. - If you want to hear more about Chandra's upbringing in Alaska and her fascinating life trajectory, I'd encourage you to go back and listen to our first episode. But also feel free to dive right into this conversation, as we had a wonderful chat about everything from cold water plunges to Freeflow's growth and evolution to the challenges of running a small business during the pandemic years. We discuss some of the upcoming courses for this calendar year, Freeflow's scholarship program, the importance of pursuing one's own creative endeavors, and how Chandra and grown as a person over the past four years. - I'd also be crazy not to mention that I'm leading a Freeflow course late this summer, down the Green River in Utah, through Gates of Ladore and Dinosaur National Monument. We'll be focused on the power of optimistic storytelling, and how storytelling can be used to effect change here in the West and beyond. You can check out the link in the episode notes to learn more, but my course is limited to 12 people, and it's already filling up. But even if you're not interested in spending a week with me, I'd encourage you to check out all the courses and the scholarship opportunities. I wish I could go on all the courses! - Thanks for listening. Hope you enjoy! --- Freeflow Institute Ed's Summer 2023 Freeflow Course All Freeflow Courses Chandra's first M&P episode Full episode notes and links: https://mountainandprairie.com/chandra-brown-2/ --- This episode is brought to you in partnership with my friends at Stonefly Nets - Handcrafted Fishing Nets Made in Arkansas --- TOPICS DISCUSSED: 4:00 - Chandra's most recent trip with Anna Brones 6:15 - How cold water became a part of Chandra's life and practice 9:44 - An overview of Freeflow Institute and how it came to be 12:00 - How Freeflow has evolved 14:45 - Whether Freeflow's evolution was more due to Chandra's planning or her flexibility 16:30 - Chandra's advice for someone thinking of quitting their steady job to build something new 19:45 - The business owners and creatives Chandra admires 22:45 - How the Freeflow Foundation came to be 25:15 - Some available scholarships through the Freeflow Foundation 27:45 - Running through some of the currently available Freeflow courses, with a brief tangent into dishwashing habits 30:45 - What makes a Freeflow Institute course successful for participants 34:00 - Success stories from past courses 41:30 - How Freeflow has changed Chandra 46:45 - Freeflow's podcast and creative services 50:00 - Chandra's book recommendations --- ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE: Mountain & Prairie - All Episodes Mountain & Prairie Shop Mountain & Prairie on Instagram Upcoming Events About Ed Roberson Support Mountain & Prairie Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts

On this episode of The Landscape, Kate and Aaron are joined by Grand Canyon Trust staff attorney Michael Toll to discuss a plan to mine hundreds of thousands of barrels of waxy crude oil in Utah near Dinosaur National Monument, using billions of gallons of Colorado River Water. A loophole in Utah law enabled an […] The post Fighting a plan to mine oil in Utah using billions of gallons of Colorado River water appeared first on Center for Western Priorities.

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 34 - The Main Road. In this episode, my terrific guest ReBecca Hunt-Foster joins the show to chat with me about:   State nomenclature, grade school dinosaur units, paleontologist origins stories, Arkansaurus fridayi, ornithomimids, Dr. James H. Quinn, Dinosaur National Monument and its history, deinocheirus, Kimmeridgian Morrison Formation, Moab and Nedcolbertia, all the famous dinosaurs: stegosaurus, apatosaurus, allosaurs, and more!, reading Jurassic Park, Colorado State Fossil Stegosaurus, a baby stegosaurus!, running stegosaurs, the thagomizer, camptosaurus, dryosaurus, sauropods, and more on stegosaurs, their thagomizers, their necks, their tales, injuring allosaurs, describing the Late Jurassic of Utah, Jurassic vegetation and botany, burrowing ornithischians, Oryctodromeus cubicularis, finding fossils and documenting everything, bunny hands in paleoart, and much more!   You can find ReBecca Hunt-Foster's website here: www.rebeccakhunt.com  and learn more about the Dinosaur National Monument here.   Plus dinosaur news about: Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria) A sauropod from the Lower Jurassic La Quinta formation (Dept. Cesar, Colombia) and the initial diversification of eusauropods at low latitudes Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases  Intro: Death of a Dream.  Outro: Sleepyhead. The Text: Fourth Iteration “Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear” (p. 179). This week's text is The Main Road, spanning from pages 181-191. Synopsis: Big Rex knocks down the fences in the storm, and ominously directs her terrifying attention upon everyone in the Land Cruisers. Ed Regis wets his pants and runs away, but everyone else is left in the tyrannosaur's devastating path. Lex's screams are cut off by the lowering of the tyrannosaur's head, Malcolm is flung like a rag doll, Tim is trapped in the Land Cruiser, which the tyrannosaur throws into the top of a tree, and Grant has a moment of discovery, realizing that if he remains absolutely still, the tyrannosaur can't see him – but then it kicks at him, and he blacks out upon hitting the ground.  Discussions surround: Movie adaptations, The Dinosaurs, Believe me, I know! and The Iterations. Corrections: For an upcoming “Allusions” section I was reviewing one of the fundamental biotech companies that Crichton references – and I realized I've been saying and spelling it totally wrong – because I can't see or something? What I've been calling “Genetech” all this time is actually Genentech with a second N stuck in the middle! Side effects:  May cause fits of terror and urination in your pantaloons. Thank you! Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers. You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I'm on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.  Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!  #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton  

Ash Fall Fossil Beds, Dinosaur National Monument, Field Museum, Petrified Forest National Park --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/Tammy English /message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/Tammy English /support

October 4, 1915. President Woodrow Wilson designates Dinosaur National Monument as a national historic site. That's a big deal, right? There must've been a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony, maybe even a parade. But no. In 1915, nobody really cares about dinosaurs. But that is all about to change. And when it does, it is largely because of two paleontologists. Two guys who started off as best friends … until their growing obsession with unearthing and cataloging dinosaur bones would turn them into rivals. Then enemies. How did the competition between a pair of paleontologists lead to unprecedented dinosaur discoveries? And how did their rivalry unhinge them both? Special thanks to guest Dr. Hans Sues, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Speaking of Spirits discusses our journey to the Skinwalker Ranch, McConkie Ranch, the Dinosaur National Monument and our experiences while we were there.To donate to our podcast, we accept paypal donations here:  colleen@pocatelloparanormalresearch.comThank you for your continued support!Royalty free music from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com

After a Google Maps search showed company Tomcat Tactical based out of a home in a residential area, about a mile home from an elementary school, residents were shocked. This company wasn't selling jam or crafts, but ammunition and semi-automatic weapon kits. It launched a debate among residents in Greenwood Village over whether guns should be allowed to be sold from homes. After months of discussion, city council members voted this week. Reporter Shannon Najmabadi explains the vote and how the city got there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In March of 2020, Mike Sexson froze to death searching for treasure near Dinosaur National Monument. He was the fifth person to die searching for a million-dollar treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains by Forrest Fenn. Another person found the treasure later that year.* It seems tragic that one person found treasure and others failed and a few died. Fortunately, this is not true for the search for life's meaning. Oh, many fail. But many have found it. Anyone who knows where to look can find it. This week, we've looked at Solomon's search for the meaning of life in the book of Ecclesiastes. Although we didn't look at everything Solomon tried in his search, we did discover he rejected pleasure, education and knowledge, as well as accomplishment and career as ultimately meaningless pursuits. He gives us his conclusion in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole [duty] of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” (NIV) Solomon's wisdom is that the meaning of life is found in a right relationship with God. To respect and obey God is the path to satisfaction and purpose, for we are accountable to him. Take a moment today to acknowledge the one who created you! *"One chest of gold, five deaths: The search for Forrest Fenn's treasure," CBS News, December 25, 2021, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/forrest-fenn-treasure-five-deaths-48-hours/. How to leave a review: https://www.sparkingfaith.com/rate-and-review/ Please provide feedback and suggestions at: https://www.sparkingfaith.com/feedback/ Bumper music “Landing Place” performed by Mark July, used under license from Shutterstock.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Guaibasaurus, links from ReBecca Hunt-Foster, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Guaibasaurus-Episode-379/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Guaibasaurus, a Late Triassic basal sauropodomorph or theropod from what is now Brazil.Interview with ReBecca Hunt-Foster, the Monument Paleontologist and Museum Curator at Dinosaur National Monument. She does research on the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, the later Cretaceous Mesa Verde Group, and early-mid Cretaceous North American ornithomimids. Follow her on twitter @paleochickIn dinosaur news this week:A new abelisaurid, Guemesia, was found in Northwestern ArgentinaThe first evidence of a respiratory infection is in a dinosaur was found in the sauropod DollyThe Museum of the Rockies in Montana is hosting Dinosaurs and MORThe Milwaukee Public Museum is hosting the temporary exhibit Tyrannosaurs: Meet the FamilyThe trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Madness shows Doctor Strange battling with Marvel dinosaurs This episode is brought to you by our patrons. Their generous contributions make our podcast possible! You can join our community, help us keep the show going, and get the show ad-free for $9/month (a win win win). Go to Patreon.com/iknowdino to sign up.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meet punk musician and park ranger Mason Evan Runs Through III, also known as his stage name, Wounded Knee. Born in Minot, North Dakota, he is of the nearby Fort Peck Reservation in North East Montana and is a member of the Assiniboine (Nakoda) nation. He is currently based in Utah, where he lives and works as an interpretive ranger and environmental educator in Dinosaur National Monument. Mason also shares about his musical project, Wounded Knee, and how he “creates emotionally charged music for a world that's forgotten how to feel.” Tune in to hear about his journey to working for the National Parks System, as well as how he uses his music for political activism. Mason's belief in genuine self expression and standing up for what's right is inspiring and empowering, and his life reflects what he speaks. Don't miss this striking episode of Songscapes!Thanks for listening and don't forget to review, share and subscribe to the podcast! Learn more about nonprofit Sustain Music and Nature's work to make music a force for nature at: www.sustainmusicandnature.orgYou can find Mason on his Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/woundedkneepunk/ or on his Bandcamp at https://woundedkneepunk.bandcamp.com/album/bury-my-heartFind Charles on his Twitter at https://twitter.com/coplincharlesHost: Charles CoplinProducer: Sustain Music & NatureEditor: Harrison GoodaleMedia Researcher: Lindsay JohnsonTheme Music: Harrison GoodaleFeatured music: Holy Fire, Nakoda Calling, Burning Tipis

Join us in a visit to:  Rifle, Craig, Dinosaur National Monument, Rocky Mountain National Park and Hayden Colorado. We had some definite lemons and coffee on this journey.  Contact Us Links: AhV Wanderers Get Interviewed South Dakota National Park Service Museum of Northwest Colorado  

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Friday, October 1st.   Today - Last year, Denver voters approved funding for a Climate Protection Fund. So what does the director of Denver's new climate action office have to say about how they're supporting climate-friendly projects and programs?   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to October 1st, 1991 when thousands of people flocked to Gilpin and Teller Counties lured by more than a dozen casinos that opened that day - all in hopes of reinvigorating former mining towns.    Now, our feature story.   Denver voters last November approved funding for a Climate Protection Fund, making the Mile High City the second in the nation to direct taxpayer dollars toward climate action work. Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth sat down with the director of Denver's new climate action office and gives us the details of how the office is supporting a variety of climate-friendly projects and programs.    Read more from Michael's visit with Grace Rink at coloradosun.com   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   The typical fall explosion of color in Colorado's high country is not lasting as long as usual. That's yet another effect of climate change, with unsettled weather and a dry summer hastening the shift from green to yellow, red and orange.   A doctor and medical student have sued the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus over the center's requirement for all employees and students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court challenges the medical center's denial of their requests for religious exemptions from the vaccine mandate and marks the latest clash over the growing number of public and private vaccine mandates.    The Bureau of Land Management awarded oil and gas leases on public land in northwest Colorado without adequately considering impacts to air and wilderness, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Krieger -- MAR-sha KREE-ger -- stopped sort of voiding the leases in her response to a lawsuit filed by environmental groups hoping to block oil and gas drilling on 58,000 acres of public land around Dinosaur National Monument.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again on Monday. Now, a quick message from our editor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the population of the American West grew in the mid-twentieth century, so did the demand for water. Learn how the fight over a proposed dam in the middle of Dinosaur National Monument gave birth to the modern conservation movement.

A deep dive into our budget vs. actual spending for our first two months of road life and a tour of Dinosaur National Monument – the fossils, the canyons, the river, the...poems? 1:12 - How much we spend on #vanlife 9:28 - Highs and lows of road life 13:24 - A tour of Dinosaur National Monument 27:00 - The Cataract of Lodore, the poem 31:37 - Wrap-up This episode was written, recorded, edited, and produced by Lisa McNamara, with additional recording and editing by Paul Olson. The Cataract of Lodore, by Robert Southey: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57951/the-cataract-of-lodore The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell, by Elizabeth Kolbert: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/16/the-lost-canyon-under-lake-powell

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Wednesday July 14th.   Today - Many resort communities across Colorado are short on housing, employees and hospitality. But locals are in a tough spot, since they depend on tourism. As a solution, some towns are considering spending money on the housing crisis instead of marketing.   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to July 14th, 1938 when President Franklin D Roosevelt signed an executive order expanding the Dinosaur National Monument across the boundary in Utah into Colorado. Back in 1869 John W Powell noted that fossils remained in the area.    Now, our feature story.   As people have flooded mountain towns during the pandemic, many resort communities are feeling overcrowded -- short on housing, employees and hospitality. Locals now are in a tough spot, understanding that they depend on tourism, but knowing that they may also be at capacity. Some towns are thinking about diverting money they usually spend marketing their towns as destinations toward solutions to the housing crisis. As outdoor reporter Jason Blevins tells Erica Breunlin, tourism is quickly evolving in Colorado's mountain communities as they struggle to both preserve their own culture and share the beauty of the high country with outsiders.   To read more about how Colorado's resort towns are pursuing more sustainable tourism, visit coloradosun.com.   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   An Idaho Springs police officer has been charged with third-degree assault for using a Taser on a 75-year-old man without warning less than a minute after he answered his door while holding a serrated sword, but after he had put down the weapon. The arrest warrant for Officer Nicholas Hanning says he was responding to a report that Michael Clark had punched his roommate in the face. A judge on Tuesday ordered the affidavit unsealed and also ordered that body camera footage in the case must be released to the public by July 29 under a new state law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on July 6.   Hundreds of aircraft are used to fight wildfires each year. But airport officials facing jet fuel shortages are concerned they'll have to wave off planes and helicopters that drop fire retardants during what could be a ferocious wildfire season. Overall, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said jet fuel inventories in the U.S. are at or above the five-year average, except in the Rocky Mountains, where they are 1% below. Most larger airports, such as those in Denver, Seattle and Boise, are supplied by pipeline. But jet fuel is delivered by truck to many smaller, outlying airports, such as the one in Aspen, and to many of the airports with tanker bases, some of them hundreds of miles away from jet fuel refineries or pipelines.   The threat of flash floods shut Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon again Tuesday afternoon for the third time in less than a month. But ecologists working in parts of the Grizzly Creek burn zone high above the canyon have been racing since last winter to get seeds planted in every path of scorched earth that could slump to the highway below. The work is designed to stabilize soil and restore damage in areas of the 32,000-acre burn scar that can still grow plants. One ecologist said she's seen encouraging signs of natural vegetation coming back -- including significant growth of snowberry, chokecherry and fireweed.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow for a special holiday episode. Now, a quick message from our editor.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Hypacrosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Hypacrosaurus-Episode-345/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Hypacrosaurus, a crested hadrosaurid known from several nests, including embryos.In dinosaur news this week:A new hadrosauroid from Spain, Magnamanus, was discovered with a unique hole in its jawThe Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pennsylvania extended their Dinosaur Armor exhibit until July 31In Saratoga Springs, New York, Universal Preservation Hall is getting Dinosaurs in Motion from July 25 to Oct 15The Mall of America has 50 animatronic dinosaurs in its parking lot until July 11In Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville Zoo has an exhibit called Dino Quest, from now until Sept 19The 9 year old who is fighting cancer and wanted to go to Dinosaur National Monument just finished her 14 day road tripBandai Spirits, is making models of dinosaur fossils with a limestone-based plastic which they claim is more sustainableThe woman who owns the Flintstone house settled the lawsuit with Hillsborough, CA to keep her statues & sculpturesDigital exhibits and collections have grown during the pandemicA new mashup music video includes Walk the Dinosaur and scenes from the TV show DinosaursArk: Survival Evolved has inflatable T. rex costumes in its summer-themed event until July 14A new image from Jurassic World: Dominion shows some of the “practical models” used in the filmThis episode is brought to you in part by BetterHelp which offers professional counseling done securely online. You can get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/ikdSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

ReBecca Hunt-Foster is the Park Paleontologist at the Dinosaur National Monument. Yes, she has the iconic park ranger hat, but she spends her time tracing the footsteps of the dinos that walked Utah in the Late Jurassic.

Drought strains Utah’s water supplies and the dry conditions mean a severe (and expensive) fire season may be coming. Conservationists object to proposed exploratory drilling near the edge of Dinosaur National Monument. And a year after George Floyd’s death, how much has changed in Utah police practices? At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen and Brian Maffly, along […]

Drought strains Utah’s water supplies and the dry conditions mean a severe (and expensive) fire season may be coming. Conservationists object to proposed exploratory drilling near the edge of Dinosaur National Monument. And a year after George Floyd’s death, how much has changed in Utah police practices? At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen and Brian Maffly, along […]

Creation Talk #61 - Dinosaur Fossils: Upside Down and Bent Over Backwards Tens of thousands of dinosaur fossils have been found in massive graveyards, jumbled and mixed together with marine fossils. Dinosaurs with long necks are also often found with their necks and tails bent backwards at a strange angle, and most armoured dinosaurs are found buried upside down on their backs. In addition, many dinosaur footprints show signs that the dinosaurs were swimming or wading in water before those footprints were preserved. These strange phenomena are best explained by the global Flood in Noah’s day. This episode features Keaton Halley and Joel Tay. CreationTalk is produced by Joseph Darnell out of the CMI-USA studios. Become a monthly contributor at our site. You can also help out by telling your family and friends to check out CreationTalk. Helpful Resources Dinosaur Challenges and Mysteries Exploring Dinosaurs with Mr Hibb Stones and Bones Behemoths Buried Alive (streaming video) Links and Show Notes Dead crocodiles down under Dinosaur disarray: Evidence for the Flood at Dinosaur National Monument, USA Water and death throes The ‘bloat and float’ ankylosaurs of Alberta Thunder lizard handstands More evidence of Noah’s Flood, this time from Mongolia Watery catastrophe deduced from huge Ceratopsian dinosaur graveyard FOLLOW US (if you want) ► Facebook ► Twitter ► Instagram ► Our site Thanks for listening to Creation.com Talk!

In this episode Nathan learns what the word ‘heuristic' means, and we talk a lot about ‘deconstruction' — what it means, what it doesn't mean, and what the process might be like for people like us who are going through it. Intro - 0:00 * Sunburns are caused by the sun * Steve is very very white It's Everywhere - 3:43 * Toyota Hilux Truck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux) * Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) * Confirmation Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias) * Availability Heuristic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic) * “Whoever has ears to hear…” Matthew 11:15 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11%3A15&version=NIV) * Article: “Jesus Cleansing the Temple” by Beth Moore (https://blog.lproof.org/2021/03/holy-week-jesus-cleansing-the-temple.html) * Article: Beth Moore leaves the SBC (https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/march/beth-moore-leave-southern-baptist-sbc-lifeway-abuse-trump.html?share=L9TtG88iFL2nOGscjGHMsdT1AspFxZhP&utm_medium=widgetsocial) What is it? - 15:16 * Deconstruction according to Jaques Derrida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction) * The Deconstruction Network (https://thedeconstructionnetwork.com/) * Pixar Movie: “Inside Out” (https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/inside-out/uzQ2ycVDi2IE) Black sheep going upstream - 33:04 * Agreeableness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness) * Group Think (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink) * Podcast: Adam Grant on “Dare to Lead” podcast by Brené Brown (https://open.spotify.com/episode/683bEXlSWMNSU3oQ26UXIL?si=kvpmKK6lSjWL2u1TUJySWw) * Book: “Think Again” by Adam Grant (https://amzn.to/3dfffCc) Life in a bubble - 49:20 * Dinosaur National Monument (https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm) * Article: The age of nones may favor churches that welcome doubters (https://religionnews.com/2020/01/14/the-age-of-nones-may-favor-churches-who-welcome-doubters/) * Thomas Pikkety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty) * Amish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish) Why do we deconstruct? 1:07:43 * Article: U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Nun) * The Flying Nun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Nun) * Article: White Evangelicals stick by Trump (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/13/white-christians-continue-to-favor-trump-over-biden-but-support-has-slipped/) * Cognitive Dissonance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance) Compounding variables - 1:29:07 * Trump, Black Lives Matter, COVID * The Good Samaritan - Luke 10:25-37 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2010%3A25-37&version=NIV) * You're not alone * With God Daily (https://skyejethani.com/with-god-daily/) Join our Patreon (http://patreon.com/followingthefire) - we'd love your support and we have some fantastic patron perks!

The whole family took a trip to northeast Utah for a weekend of hiking, exploring canyons and checking out dinosaur fossils. And since Dinosaur National Monument has one of the darkest night skies in the U.S., we took in the stars and a full moon too. Here’s the sound of sitting next to the Green River on a moonlit spring night. Recorded March 28, 2021.

Do you rally up your river friends each January and coordinate your river permit dates?  Do you get permits?  Do you wonder who is behind the curtain of rec.gov and the permitting offices?  This episode asked all those questions and spoke with the river permitting "boss" at rec.gov, and the river permit offices at Dinosaur National Monument, Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho and Grand Canyon National Park.  There are people behind the curtain, they are very friendly and shared with The River Radius information to help all of us better understand the why and the how of the river permit systems.  Each river office has a website with relevant information and deep statistical data that tells a story of each seasons application numbers.  Here they are:Dinosaur National Monument main river info pageIdaho 4 Rivers main river info pageGrand Canyon National Park, River LotteryGrand Canyon National Park, River Lottery statisticsRecreation One Stop (rec.gov) These two previous episodes listed below from The River Radius Podcast offer more and different information about the content in this episode:Hoops' EchoHerm Hoops worked at Dinosaur National Monument for years and spent many days and nights on the Green River.  He was a strong and passionate river conservationists and wrote a comprehensive history of modern river rafts.  Herm passed away late in 2020.  8000 Years on the SelwayThe Selway River in Idaho has hosted humans for thousands of years with Salmon and Steelhead fisheries, resources to build shelters, and amazing water. Over the summers of 2018 and 2019 archeological research has been conducted on the Selway to clarify and protect the artifacts in the river valley. Jeff Adams explains as much as he can, the story of humans along the Selway long before the Europeans arrived.Contact The River Radius Podcast:  hello@theriverradius.com

Much of the western United States was once blanketed in hundreds of feet of sand. The unforgiving sun beat down on the landscape for 20 to 30 million years during the early Jurassic period. Thin layers of rock allowed water to collect even in the dry desert, though sometimes it was hidden a few inches below the surface. Dinosaurs and other animals were able to survive the harsh conditions, and as the sand slowly turned to sandstone, traces of these animals were caught and preserved in the rock, creating fossils. More than 150 million years later, a man named Earl Douglass was born in Medford, Minnesota in 1862. He didn’t know it yet, but his fate was already entwined with the dinosaurs that once roamed the earth. This week on America’s National Parks: Earl Douglass and Dinosaur National Monument.

Wallace Stegner is a name not many have heard, but certainly should.  He was an American writer, naturalist, and activist.  He's one of the rare people who could, at the time of his death, say he was instrumental in preserving a pristine tract of land which millions have enjoyed and continue to enjoy.  That place is called Dinosaur National Monument and if you have not seen it, I encourage you to search for photos.  It...is...breathtaking.  And it was nearly lost to development as the nation grew and attempted to bring the mighty Colorado River under control.   He is a fascinating man, with a fascinating story, and his words are as true today, when it is so easy to be cynical, as they were nearly 40 years ago when he spoke them.  

Last week, A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s plan to lease more than 60,000 acres of public land for fracking in northern Utah’s Uintah Basin, including areas near Dinosaur National Monument. The judge ruled that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law by refusing to consider alternatives to leasing all 59 parcels. Taylor McKinnon, a senior campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity joins Chris and Nell on this week's This Green Earth to talk about this decision and what the Biden administration plans to do with respect to leasing of public lands for fossil fuel extraction in the first part of the show.

Hear about a road trip to Dinosaur National Monument and Rocky Mountain National Park as the Amateur Traveler talks to Sam and Mina Oppenheim about this part of their western road trip.

Hear about a road trip to Dinosaur National Monument and Rocky Mountain National Park as the Amateur Traveler talks to Sam and Mina Oppenheim about this part of their western road trip.

Hear about a road trip to Dinosaur National Monument and Rocky Mountain National Park as the Amateur Traveler talks to Sam and Mina Oppenheim about this part of their western road trip.

In this FMR #fuelweek episode, we talk about ways to improve your immune system.Our storefront is live! Our short e-book available for $40 before your member-discount! We also have 1-on-1 consults with our Dietitian or Physical Therapist that you can purchase too.Topics covered: Dinosaur National Monument. Brief introduction to your immune system. Importance of quality sleep. Undiagnosed sleep disorders. Relationship between sleep and some heart issues. Sneaky places that sugar hangs out. Our approach and tips for meal prep. How to get a variety of colors into your diet. Tips for quick and healthy breakfast items. Ways to boost your immune system when you’re starting to feel sick. Apps and websites for tracking your recipes and intake. And more!You can follow Alex on Twitter (@alex_uding)Lindsay on Twitter (@lindsaymalonerd) or Instagram (@lindsaymalonerd)Michele on Twitter (@micheleionno) or Instagram (@micheleionno)Please like our page on Facebook (@fuelmoverecover), subscribe/rate/review the podcast or subscribe to our youtube channel, and share our stuff on your social media pages.Our patrons' shout-outs are for Feal Good Foundation, Stark County Sheriff's Office, Task Force Dagger, The Teacher's Desk, Veterans Outdoors, and the Woonsocket Police Department.

We just started a Patreon page and will be offering bonus episodes to those who support us at the $5 and $10 a month levels. Patreon.com/allthroughalens The $10 a month level will get to hear a new chitty-chatty podcast we're doing called Snapshots. These will be (mostly) casual conversations about photography, our lives, travel, and, of course photography.  In our first episode of Snapshots, we talk about the day and night we spent at the Gates of Lodore in Dinosaur National Monument. We cover our expectations for shooting, what we actually shot, and how we just didn't like our work (that much). There's also talk of being on the road, Sour Patch Kids double-blind taste test, and a bit of history. We hope you enjoy it and consider becoming a patron. Thank you! Enjoy the show! --- Vania: IG, Flickr, ZinesEric: IG, Flickr, Zines, ECN-2 KitsAll Through a Lens: IG, Website, Patreon

This week we share our journey to the Utah side of Dinosaur National Monument and chat about the manufacturing backlog that's making it harder and harder to buy a new RV. We also talk about why the stories about big name YouTubers that are giving up the full-time RV life might not be all they're cracked up to be.       

Yes, you can enjoy the national park system and stay safe during a pandemic. Danielle celebrates the 104th birthday of the NPS with guests Jason Everson of RV Miles Network and Bradley Kerouac of Hello Ranger. The trio explores pragmatic strategies for family travel in an otherwise unpredictable year. Discussion includes the following: [00:02] Introduction: National Parks Service Founders Day, Bradley Kerouac/Hello Ranger, Jason Everson/RV Miles, Soul Trak Outdoors [03:39] Reports from the road: Dinosaur National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, Saguaro National Park, Mount Lemmon, Yellowstone National Park [08:17] Logistics and locations: Glacier National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Canaveral National Seashore, Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Arches National Park [11:37] Choose your (safe) adventure: Yellowstone National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak, Garden Of The Gods, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Dinosaur National Monument, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Blue Ridge Mountains/Shenandoah National Park [18:45] Inside jokes [20:00] Practical tips for making your choice [27:28] Backyard parks and return visits: Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Glacier National Park [33:15] Park safety: Mesa Verde National Parks, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Dinosaur Quarry, Zion National Park, Big Bend National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Allegheny State Park [41:00] Before you RV…: Cruise America [46:23] A final word on safety [47:04] A final word on places to visit: Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail, Freedom Riders National Monument, Pullman National Monument [48:57] Guest contacts: RV Miles, The RV Miles podcast, America's National Parks podcast, The See America podcast, Hello Ranger   Actions: Subscribe to our podcast. Tell your friends about Everybody’s National Parks Visit our website https://www.everybodysnationalparks.com/ Send us your national park stories, recommendations, comments, or questions to Hello at everybodysnps.com. Support us on Patreon Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Please tag us from the parks you are visiting at #everybodysnationalparks and @everybodysnationalparks

Hashtag 59's Season 3 Podcast is 50 Episodes long and each episode will provide SIX outdoor adventures in each of the US's 50 states. We are doing these episodes in ABC Order of the states and episode forty-four is Utah. The goal is to give you ideas and opportunities to experience outdoor adventure anywhere and everywhere in the United States of America. Here's our list for Utah: 1. Hit up Capitol Reef National Park for some secluded hiking and make sure to stop for a famous cinnamon rolls or pie from the Gifford Homestead. There’s options for both day hiking, or backcountry hiking. Capitol Reef offers many hiking options for serious backpackers and those who enjoy exploring remote areas. Marked hiking routes lead into narrow, twisting gorges, slot canyons, and to spectacular viewpoints high atop the Waterpocket Fold. Popular backcountry hikes in the southern section of the park include Upper and Lower Muley Twist Canyons and Halls Creek. 2. Take a 4x4 trip through 50 miles of challenging backcountry roads lead to campsites, trailheads, and many natural and cultural features in Canyonlands National Park. Alternatively, there are tons of roads around Moab that you can go driving on through BLM lands. Some of the top trails include Hell’s Revenge, Shafer Trail, Klondike Bluffs, Chicken Corners and More. Bears Ears National Monument...or whatever it is becoming now. 3. Choose one of the 3 at Zion...they have 3 of my top 10 day hikes in the country. Observation Point, Angels Landing, The Narrows. 4. Goblin Valley State Park. 5. Dinosaur National Monument. Thanks for listening to Season 3 of our podcast featuring all 50 US States and some of each state's unique and hopefully lesser known to you Outdoor Adventures. This episode featured the state of Utah. Subscribe to our podcast if you enjoy what you hear and if you feel so inclined to leave a review we would be grateful. Check out www.Hashtag59.com for our old podcast seasons, hundreds of blogs, & outdoor events/team outings info.

Noah explores Dinosaur National Monument in western Colorado. He'll explore this amazing site, where hundreds of dinosaur skeletons have been found in a mass graveyard. He'll take a look at the evidence for the Biblical record of dinosaurs living in recent history and why meteorites just don't make sense for their demise. He'll share how the global flood makes much more sense of how they met their end, as well as how they came off the ark and survived for a while after the Flood. To get the full video episode on our VOD platform, go to AwesomeSciTV.com

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Daemonosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Daemonosaurus-Episode-296/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Daemonosaurus, the small, buck toothed, Triassic carnivore from New Mexico.In dinosaur news this week:Oculudentavis is now officially just HPG-15-3 after the Nature article describing it was retractedA thorough reanalysis of Dilophosaurus specimens clarified its features and relationship to other dinosaursA pair of Bissektipelta braincases shows details of how its blood vessels workedAccording to NPR, one-third of the museums in the U.S. may permanently close this yearThe Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur National Monument has reopened with timed ticketsDinosaur Adventure Drive-Thru is in St. Paul, Minnesota through August 9thBryce Dallas Howard shared some photos on Twitter of the bruises she’s gotten doing stunt work for Jurassic World DominionIn August, the Jurassic Park Trilogy is coming back to Netflix in the USThe trailer for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous was released

Grab your shovels, rock picks and brushes, because this episode we are headed to Dino Camp! Dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic Era, inhabiting every continent on earth. The secrets revealed by their fossils can enliven any journey, whether to one of our great science museums, or to one of the actual fossil dig sitesscattered across the US. Let's face it - many of us went through a dinosaur phase during childhood, and in this episode, we'll brush up on all the awe-inspiring reasons why that phase should never end.  We'll brush up on the progression of dinosaurs from small beasts filling an ecological niche after the "Great Dying" at the end of the Permian age, to the rich cast of characters you know and love from the late Cretaceous. After that, a quick detour to highlight fascinating aspects of dinosaur physiology and answer questions like - were they warm-blooded? Did they have feathers? What's their relationship to birds?  We'll finish out the episode by covering a top ten list of my favorite dinosaurs, and delve into the extinction event that led to the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Along the way, we'll also cover loads of geology and highlight some of the best places in  the US you can go to indulge your inner Dino Nerd. This episode really can pair well with trips just about anywhere in the US. It is especially great if you are headed out on a trip and are thinking of visiting a dinosaur site such as Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado/Utah, Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah, Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Montana, or Dinosaur related state parks in Texas, Massachusetts and Connecticut. City trips should not be lost opportunities either, as you might want to brush up before visiting Chicago's Field Museum, or the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Knowledge Nugget: Radioisotope Dating Deep Dive: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen L. Brusatte Deep Dive - Silly: Dinosaurs! - A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! Short film by Will Vinton starring Fred Savage

Sunny Montgomery lives in Ocoee, Tennessee, in a 600-square-foot cabin she built with her boyfriend. Since November, they've been living off-the-grid, gardening, chicken-keeping and boiling water to take baths. Sunny is a writer and editor with Get Out Chattanooga and Chatter magazine. On summer weekends, she and her boyfriend run a taco truck on the Ocoee River (though this season's opening has been delayed due to coronavirus.) Her passion is whitewater canoeing. Discovering new creeks and rock smears make her happiest, but the Ocoee River, where she learned to paddle and where you'll find her any summer weekend (before opening the taco truck, of course) is among her most favorite places on Earth. Notable past paddling trips include Gates of Lodore in Dinosaur National Monument, Costa Rica and the Grand Canyon. This October – pandemic willing – she has plans to launch for her second Canyon trip. Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In December of 2019, "The Salad Days" film was released telling a brief story of Herm Hoops's life.  He landed his dream job as a Ranger at Dinosaur National Monument, home of Echo Park.  He boated Desoloation Canyon on the Green River again and again and again.  Possibly his last trip down Deso is documented in "The Salad Days."  This interview is with Herm Hoops, his wife Valerie Hoops and film maker Cody Perry.  They talk about Herms life, the concepts of this film, and rivers need the boaters to care for the rivers, and how Herm sees his life.  

Danielle chats with Grandma Joy and her grandson Brad Ryan of Grandma Joy's Road Trip. They started their national park adventure together when she was 85. They have visited 53 national parks - and counting! They share their favorite scenic drives in national parks and their top ten list of national parks for accessibility. Discussion includes the following: 0:02 - Introducing Grandma Joy Ryan and Brad Ryan: CBS This Morning Interview 1:55 - Reunited: From losing touch to regaining Joy Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Old Faithful, Redwood National and State Parks 5:08 - The adventure begins 6:47 - The life-changing magic of slowing down 10:15 - Age, accessibility, and Grandma Joy’s “best of…” list: Mammoth Cave National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park 13:10 - Shenandoah National Park 15:09 - Driver’s delight: Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona’s Painted Desert, Historic Route 66 17:54 -  Diversity in the desert: Saguaro National Park, Joshua Tree National Park 19:52 - Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park, The General Sherman Tree 21:15 - Saguaro National Park and environs: Desert Discovery Trail, El Paso, TX lodging/Hyatt Hotels, White Sands National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park 22:44 - Tales from the passenger’s seat: Badlands National Park, Yellowstone National Park 26:14 - Big Bend National Park 28:30 - Grand Teton National Park 29:47 - Arches National Park, Zion National Park 31:12 - Sunrise over Grand Canyon National Park 33:01 - Glacier National Park, park shuttle service, Going-To-The-Sun Road 33:40 - Fishercap Lake, a moose encounter, and a wildlife reminder 35:42 - A veterinarian’s viewpoint 38:02 - Bear aware, Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Cades Cove Scenic Road 40:35 - Gatlinburg, TN, Clingmans Dome 41:45 - The glittering aspens of Rocky Mountain National Park 43:00 - Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park 43:41 - Assessing accessibility challenges: Channel Islands National Park 46:40 - Practical logistics 48:06 - Trip tips and ranger recommendations 50:09 - A Wind Cave National Park coyote story 51:42 - Bad weather/good mood: Why attitude is everything when travelling 52:15 - Isle Royal National Park misadventure 55:44 - Adventures counted in moments, not N.P.s: Craters Of The Moon National Monument, Dinosaur National Monument 56:56 - Transformative travel rewards 59:02 - What’s next for Brad and Grandma Joy: Brad’s book, National Park of American Samoa, Alaska’s multiple parks and places 1:01:11 - The power of Grandma Joy’s example   For complete show notes and archive, visit everybodysnationalparks.com. We have covered parks including: Biscayne, Crater Lake, Everglades, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Olympic, Rock Creek, Saguaro, Shenandoah, Virgin Islands, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion. We also have special conversations with a diverse group of national park champions. (Ep. 13) Acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns took time out of his busy schedule to discuss the creation and legacy of the National Park Service and celebrate the tenth anniversary of his series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. (Ep. 14) Author Becky Lomax chatted with Danielle and Bryan about her guidebook and offered travel tips to lesser-known parks. (Ep. 19.5) Ranger Shelton Johnson introduced listeners to the Buffalo Soldiers of Yosemite National Park Actions: Subscribe to our podcast from our website https://www.everybodysnationalparks.com/ Tell your friends about Everybody’s National Parks Send us your national park stories, recommendations, comments, or questions to Hello at everybodysnps.com. Support us on Patreon Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Please tag us from the parks you are visiting at #everybodysnationalparks

Jordan got a fun package from Brunette Shenanigans (check out her blog). Adrienne talks about her experience in Vernal at Dinosaur National Monument. They both struggle with daylight savings.

Bryan talks with Dayton Duncan who, along with his creative partner Ken Burns, wrote and produced The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. How has our majestic national park system faired in the decade since PBS first aired that multi-episode documentary?  The prolific author offers some insight and takes us on an emotional tour of his favorite park. Also listen to the Everybody’s National Park’s Ken Burns podcast episode 13 in your podcast app or click here. Discussion Includes the Following: 0:02 - Introduction to Dayton Duncan: The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Out West: A Journey Through Lewis And Clark's America, ENP #13 - Ken Burns Interview 2.27 - Ken Burns films Baseball and Country Music, Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980; Yosemite National Park 5:56 - Citizen Activism, Part I: Adina Emilia de Zavala, the Alamo 9:34 - The American Antiquities Act, National Park Service Centennial, national lands protected under the Obama administration 13:24 - Citizen Activism, Part II: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Muir 17:32 - Preservation And Shrinking Public Lands: Bears Ears National Monument, Yellowstone National Park 18:39 - Continuing land management challenges, Grand Canyon National Park 21:37 - Transcendence, Part I: The open space of democracy, Old Faithful, TerryTempest Williams 24:21 - Parks Promote Relationships 25:15 - Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Canyon National Park 27:00 - Badlands National Park, Dinosaur National Monument 28:24 - Transcendence, Part II: A multi-generation connection to the parks and keeping memories safe 33:54 - The National Parks: America’s Best Idea companion book, John Muir 34:55 - Ken Burns’ Mark Twain biography 36:00 - Revisiting an old favorite: Glacier National Park 38:30 - Bearing Witness To Climate Change And The Call To Act: Joshua Tree National Park, Many Glacier Hotel, Grinnell Glacier 42:51 - ENP 2020 plans and preparations 45:07 - Dayton Duncan, Honorary Park Ranger For complete show notes and archive, visit everybodysnationalparks.com. We have covered parks including: Biscayne, Crater Lake, Everglades, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Olympic, Rock Creek, Saguaro, Shenandoah, Virgin Islands, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion. We also have special conversations with a diverse group of national park champions. (Ep. 13) Acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns took time out of his busy schedule to discuss the creation and legacy of the National Park Service and celebrate the tenth anniversary of his series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. (Ep. 14) Author Becky Lomax chatted with Danielle and Bryan about her guidebook and offered travel tips to lesser-known parks. (Ep. 19.5) Ranger Shelton Johnson introduced listeners to the Buffalo Soldiers of Yosemite National Park Actions: Subscribe to our podcast from our website https://www.everybodysnationalparks.com/ Tell your friends about Everybody’s National Parks Send us your national park stories, recommendations, comments, or questions to Hello at everybodysnps.com. Support us on Patreon Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook     Please tag us from the parks you are visiting at #everybodysnationalparks

A new publication from the USDA’s Rocky Mountain Research Station tracks changes to pinyon and juniper woodlands over 20,000 years. Researchers say the woodlands have always responded to changes in climate, but human development, more severe drought, and larger wildfires are showing their impacts. Plus, the introduction of a new dino at Dinosaur National Monument, and Public Lands Corner explores a heat-map that shows recreational use patterns on public lands near Moab – and the rest of the world. Show Notes: The Ecology, History, Ecohydrology, and Management of Pinyon and Juniper Woodlands in the Great Basin and Northern Colorado Plateau of the Western United States – https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_series/rmrs/gtr/rmrs_gtr403.pdf UPR, Introducing A New Dinosaur Found at Dinosaur National Monument – https://www.upr.org/post/introducing-new-dinosaur-found-dinosaur-national-monument Public Lands Corner – https://www.strava.com/heatmap#7.00/-120.90000/38.36000/hot/all https://www.ksl.com/weather/snowpack https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ut/nwis/current/?type=flow

This week’s show, our 50th, looks at a Jurassic Period carnivore dubbed "AJ,"  a new species of allosaurus, found in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, and takes a short Revolutionary War history tour of Saratoga National Historical Park in New York State.

David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912- November 5, 2000) is considered by many to be the father of the modern environmental movement. Beginning his career as a world-class mountaineer with more than 70 first ascents to his credit, he became the first executive director of the Sierra Club in 1952 and successfully fought to stop dams in Dinosaur National Monument and in Grand Canyon National Park. He led campaigns to establish 10 new national parks and seashores, including Point Reyes, the North Cascades and the Redwoods, and was instrumental in gaining passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which protects millions of acres of public lands in pristine condition.He delivered his speech at the 12th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures in October 1992.If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts.The Schumacher Center's applied work seeks to implement the principles described by these speakers within the context of the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Our work, both educational and applied, is supported by listeners like you. You can strengthen our mission by making a donation at centerforneweconomics.org/donate, or call us at (413) 528-1737 to make an appointment to visit our research library and office at 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Dinosaur of the day Nyasasaurus, a 240 million year old dinosauriform that may be the earliest known dinosaur.Interview with Christopher DiPiazza, a science teacher, paleo artist, and creator of the popular site, Prehistoric Beast of the Week. He covers a different prehistoric animal (nearly) every week, with an original painting he creates, a photograph of the fossil, and whenever possible, input from a paleontologist who worked on that animal. Follow him on twitter or @ChrisDPiazza or Instagram.In dinosaur news this week:A new early cretaceous carcharodontosaurian, Siamraptor, was discovered in ThailandRebecca Jensen shared her database and map of Dinosaur National Monument with usIn St. George, Utah, carnivorous dinosaur footprints have been found from roughly 200 million years agoThe Las Vegas Natural History Museum announced their paleontology team found 240 million year old vertebrate tracksThe Dickinson’s Badlands Dinosaur Museum has a new find, a 77 million year old tyrannosaurNew fossils on display, including a juvenile Triceratops, adult Triceratops, and a hadrosaurMaximus, a 70 million year old 3m long dinosaur recently sold for for about $227,000Smithsonian Mag published a list of spots to dig for dinosaur bonesIn Sacramento, California, a man in a Allosaurus costume stopped by a Sacramento City HallSupergirl star, Melissa Benoit, shared a photo of herself riding a dinosaur and hugging a T. rexTo get our postcard from SVP, sign up on our Patreon by October 22, 2019 https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoFor links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Nyasasaurus, links from Christopher DiPiazza, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Nyasasaurus-Episode-255/

It’s tough to find a river in the West that still behaves - like a western river. One that rises and falls with the rush of melting snow. Most of the region’s major streams are controlled by dams. That makes the relatively free-flowing Yampa River in northwestern Colorado unique. As Luke Runyon reports, the people who depend on it are wondering how best to protect the river as the West’s water grows more scarce. [Photo: Rafters float past Steamboat Rock at the confluence of the Yampa and Green Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. Luke Runyon/KUNC]

New overnight accommodations - with some exceptions – are now prohibited in Grand County, after a special meeting last week. Council members also approved an overnight accommodations overlay map, which safeguards existing overnight rentals, a few parcels with viable takings claims, and includes certain parts of Crescent Junction, Thompson Springs, and Cisco. Moab City will consider a similar ordinance restricting overnight lodging at their meeting Tuesday July 23rd. And later on the newscast, an update on West Nile Virus mosquitoes and data tracking the number of deaths on Colorado’s rivers compared to years with similar high flows. [Photo: Rafters scout a rapid along the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument in May 2019. Luke Runyon/KUNC]

Miles from any metropolitan areas, the region around Dinosaur National Monument is one of the darkest places in the lower 48 states. Now it’s officially recognized for its lack of light pollution by the International Dark Sky Association. Our partners at KDNK spoke with Sonya Popelka, who oversees the night sky viewing programs at Dinosaur, about the designation and the public programs she oversees. [Photo: The Milky Way galaxy fills the night sky above Mitten Park and the Green River at Dinosaur National Monument. Credit: Dan Duriscoe/National Park Service]

Who is "thenationalparksgirl.com"? In this week's Traveler podcast, Erika Zambello tracks down Sonja Saxe to discuss her national park explorations. Erika and her husband visit Gulf Islands National Seashore to catch dinner. We conclude with a question of whether Dinosaur National Monument should be renamed "Dinosaur National Park"?

From time to time, I like to produce a quick 10 minute or so podcast that shares a few thoughts I have had during the week, or a lesson I picked up as I have interviewed guests who are featured on this podcast.  The QuickCast is a great way to reflect on a message—even during a busy day or night.  On this episode I reflect on a flight I took with my young son, 7 years ago.  We both love to fly around in little airplanes.  And on this flight we wanted to watch the sunset on Split Mountain, a rock face at Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah.   As I reflected on this seven-year old memory, I started thinking about how much perspectives change our lives.   Enjoy! 

In the news: The ankylosaur Akainacephalus johnsoni was found in Utah with a gryposaur, a turtle, and a crocodile; Dinosaur National Monument has a new paleontologist; A geology instructor donated a large collection of fossils and specimens to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; A 30 foot inflatable dinosaur named Dino-Mite was briefly stolen from a fireworks store; The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia is having a two-day Dino Festival; York Maze in the UK has opened a 15 acre maze of a T. rex and Triceratops to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park; BBC4 aired the three part series titled Jurassic Coast Revealed; and a 1/2 oz pure silver colored Canadian dinosaur coin featuring Edmontonia was released Dinosaur of the day Koreaceratops the first ceratopsian found in Korea This episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and animatronics. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Koreaceratops, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Koreaceratops-Episode-191/  

On this episode we talk about one of the great Paleontologists of the American West, Earl Douglas, who, with the help of President Woodrow Wilson, discovered and preserved one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, the Wall of Bones at Dinosaur National Monument in Northeastern Utah.

On this episode we talk about one of the great Paleontologists of the American West, Earl Douglas, who, with the help of President Woodrow Wilson, discovered and preserved one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, the Wall of Bones at Dinosaur National Monument in Northeastern Utah.

In the news: A Juvenile diplodocoid femur exposed in the rock-wall at Dinosaur National Monument appears to have bite marks; Calcium isotopes in dinosaur teeth appear to show that spinosaurs ate more fish than their contemporary theropods; A new unnamed dinosaur has been reported from a recent excavation in Cerra Guido, Chile; dinosaurs being sold; dinosaur costumes; new Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom trailers; and more Dinosaur of the day Sinoceratops a large ceratopsid dinosaur from China that will be in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom—although toys bearing its name are based on Pachyrhinosaurus This episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and animatronics. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs This week's link to enter the Velociraptor Sculpture Sweepstakes is http://bit.ly/Dinosaur178 complete rules are at https://iknowdino.com/velociraptor-sculpture-sweepstakes-official-rules To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Sinoceratops, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Sinoceratops-Episode-178/

On this episode of the TeacherCast App Spotlight, Jeff welcomes Global Marketing Director Tanya Mas and Sydney Harper from the Aspen Academy to discuss how Rosetta Stone is transforming the way students are able to learn and master a new language. About Rosetta StoneRosetta Stone is a global leader in technology-driven language and learning solutions, and for 25 years has provided educators with interactive English and World Language programs that change their students’ lives. More than 22,000 education institutions worldwide have partnered with Rosetta Stone to develop their students’ natural ability to read, write, and speak with confidence in a new language. Rosetta Stone® Foundations for K-12 is designed for beginner to intermediate students to learn skills needed for conversational proficiency. Foundations combine EdTech and proven methodologies for easy integration into a school’s language program, increasing students’ instructional access and opportunity in up to 24 languages. As students complete interactive language instruction they unlock the ability to practice their language skills through games, activities, stories, and live online conversations—leveled to their learning progress. Learn how combining Rosetta Stone Foundations with traditional language instruction complements any curriculum at http://www.rosettastone.com/K12 (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rosettastone.com_K12&d=DwMFaQ&c=gOrgfQB8xVH7F0lP7MQhi8CyVXMBvYqNyP3LuSSb8Lw&r=C5EhJpDQOemW-U6ZscAHfCGXMa5_VEAMLAlztaSAie0&m=o-B712jznXH5XU7HMT9hcSUuuI0DS9WHN6do-QJRdGo&s=yr5Ly8ncHLq-zJYEHTpKpymdZBaidqlCFijBFA1JRw8&e=) . Links of InterestTwitter: @RosettaStoneEd (http://twitter.com/RosettaStoneEd) Facebook: Facebook.com/RosettaStoneEducation (http://Facebook.com/RosettaStoneEducation) K-12 Resource Hub:  k12hub.rosettastone.com (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__k12hub.rosettastone.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=gOrgfQB8xVH7F0lP7MQhi8CyVXMBvYqNyP3LuSSb8Lw&r=C5EhJpDQOemW-U6ZscAHfCGXMa5_VEAMLAlztaSAie0&m=o-B712jznXH5XU7HMT9hcSUuuI0DS9WHN6do-QJRdGo&s=lI-jjII5trOQZG4pxlF3H8JEzlkLQMV4nFth-I5PNuM&e=) YouTube:  http://k12hub.rosettastone.com/video (http://k12hub.rosettastone.com/video) About Our GuestsSydney Harper is pleased to be teaching for her eighth year at Aspen Academy. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Denver in International Studies, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Translation and Interpretation from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. This will be Mrs. Harper’s eleventh year teaching in independent schools. Through her teaching career, she has taught Spanish, American History, Global Issues, Health and Wellness, World Seminar, Drama and Music to students ECE-12. She makes it her goal to integrate across the curriculum and throughout the community to provide the most enriching education possible. She has lead students on service learning, outdoor expeditionary and history based outings to Costa Rica, Mexico, Moab, Dinosaur National Monument, Flaming Gorge and Historical Route 66. On these outings, Ms. Harper wrote and utilized various curricula to provide enriching, educational experiences throughout.  In her spare time, Mrs. Harper sings professionally with symphony orchestras, local theatre and music groups, and writes and performs her own music in Denver venues. Tanya Mas is Rosetta Stone’s Global Marketing Director and is responsible for the strategy and execution of the global demand generation programs for the Enterprise & Education verticals in the US, UK and DACH region. Prior to her current position, Tanya was the Senior Education Marketing Manager for Rosetta Stone and was responsible for the overall go-to-market strategy for the K-12 and Higher Education verticals. She designed and managed the strategic development and...

We talk about a very different kind of vacation than the Walt Disney World trips we’ve discussed recently on the show. This week, Josh Watters talks with host Aaron Rittmaster about his family’s 3,000+ mile RV road trip. The trip, starting in St. Paul, Minnesota, included the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument, […]

In our 153rd episode, we got to chat with Cary Woodruff (@DoubleBeam), director of paleontology at Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta, Montana, and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Cary is an expert in sauropods, and is the author of a new paper about deciphering diplodocid growth In the news: First dinosaur named in the Czech Republic; A new type of dinosaur egg found in a fossilized nest in China; Plans for drilling for oil near Dinosaur National Monument; New dinosaur exhibits, sculptures, and more Dinosaur of the day Giraffatitan, a sauropod whose name means "giant giraffe" To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Giraffatitan, and our fun fact check out http://iknowdino.com/giraffatitan-episode-153/

Cappy "recaps" his past week of adventuring. Broken or bruised ribs really hurt. A segment life from Dinosaur National Monument. Homesick.

Utah is the Mecca for all things dinosaurs, Salt Lake Valley may even be the infamous "Great Valley" from Land Before Time! We have gathered a hefty list that only touches the surface of things to do and places to go to satisfy the craving of knowledge surrounding dinosaurs. Museums, hikes, quarries and more, where you can see and touch, and occasionally even take home fossils! See paleontologists at work that the BYU Museum of Paleontology. Put your foot in the same footprint as a dinosaurs at Red Fleet State Park! Explore the endless hiking trails of Dinosaur National Monument. Travel back in time and enter a new world of jurassic at the ancient history museum at Thanksgiving Point!

A review of Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado, which is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Also dinosaur of the day Ceratosaurus, a carnivore with a nasal horn. Visit http://www.IknowDino.com for more information including a link to dinosaur sites near you.

Dinosaur news, including Jurassic World behind-the-scenes featurettes, fossilized poop found inside a pterosaur, Dinosaur National Monument becoming a park, and more. Also, dinosaur of the day Stegoceras, a pachycephalosaurid with a smooth domed head.  Visit http://www.IknowDino.com for more information including a link to dinosaur sites near you.

Dinosaur news, including a fossil that was thought to be fake actually being an undiscovered species, Dinosaur National Monument being the quietest place in the U.S., and dark matter possibly killing the dinosaurs. Also, dinosaur of the day Deinocheirus, a dinosaur that ate everything in site (like a garbage disposal) and looked like Jar Jar from Star Wars, with a sail on its back, tyrannosaur-like jaw, sauropod-like hips, and hadrosaur-like bill. Visit http://www.IknowDino.com for more information including a link to dinosaur sites near you.

The Yampa River of northwest Colorado is considered the last major free flowing-river in the seven state Colorado River Basin. It cascades for 249 miles from high in the Rocky Mountains near Steamboat Springs and descends over 6,000 ft. from alpine tundra to parched desert. Bisecting local, state, and national parks, and at times enclosed in a 2,500 ft. deep canyon, it morphs from a cold trout stream to a warm water haven for endangered fish, evolving from placid meanders into famous whitewater rapids. Join Colorado nature photographer John Fielder as he photographs his way down the entire length of the river from the Yampa’s headwaters in the Flat Tops Wilderness at 11,500 ft. to its confluence with the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. Fielder’s sublime images of tundra wildflowers, eagles and elk, and the tributaries and canyons of the Yampa will allow you to feel like you are rowing along with the author! www.johnfielder.com