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Photo provided by Jackie Grant, 2024
| September and early October were busy months in the communities around the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The Escalante Canyons Art Festival brought visitors from around the world. Our team was glad to engage with Festival visitors at our booth, and those who attended my Roving talk about bats, and Kevin’s poetry workshop. I was really grateful to co-present the bat talk with Dr. Nicki Frey from Utah State University Extension. On October 5th, the Boulder arts community welcomed Curbside Theater for their last show of the season, a one-of-a-kind traveling dance-theater, Tarotville. The performance was fantastic and the audience very enthusiastic! As I was in the neighborhood for both events, I took the opportunity to visit the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s world class petrified forest. Because petrified forests form when trees are submerged in wet mud, they are not the first thing that comes to mind when you visit the Monument. However, the Monument is indeed home to a rather large and spectacular petrified forest. Read on to learn about our remote and scientifically intriguing petrified forest. -Jackie P.S. Don’t forget to answer our poll at the end of the newsletter! |
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