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01/26/2017

wow pretty cool...

After years of serious drought, California appears to be on the road to recovery. The state experienced its driest years on record between 2011 and 2014, b

01/10/2017

A must watch!!!

On July 25th, 2017, Nikon will celebrate its centennial anniversary—100 years of Nikon. And in case you didn't know that, they've released an almost comica

01/03/2017

What's wrong with people!

Over the holiday weekend, Las Vegas Boulevard wasn't the only place trashed by holiday crowds.

12/29/2016

FYI

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says $3,400 worth of damage was committed to the sign on December 17.

12/28/2016

Never stop exploring even if it's in your own backyard!

12/28/2016

Fun with star filters

12/27/2016

Frozen desert!

12/22/2016

New pics are LIVE link in bio check out the amazing

12/22/2016

That's pretty cool!!

Brian C. Harmon, Archaeologist with Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument, has recently made an interesting find while monitoring excavation at Horseshoe Bend overlook. Here is the text of the article:

During the National Park Service's centennial year, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is partnering with the City of Page, Arizona to improve the facilities at Horseshoe Bend overlook, one of Glen Canyon's iconic landmarks. One of the improvements is the installation of five much-needed vault toilets at the overlook’s parking area. During archaeological monitoring of excavation of pits to house the toilet foundations in early December, Michael Gonzales, City of Page Street Department Supervisor, Sam Dillon, Glen Canyon American Conservation Experience Archaeological Intern, and I discovered a small dump of burned trash dating to the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Trash included a hot sauce bottle, an Alka-Seltzer bottle, shoe fragments, a broken glass candy bowl, bone fragments, burned cloth, bits of wire, and an unremarkable Sprite bottle ... the bottle was unremarkable, that is, until we turned it upside down and discovered "ZION NATIONAL PARK" embossed on its base!

From researching the connection between Sprite bottles and National Parks I learned that in 1966, during the Park Service's 50th anniversary, Coca-Cola, began a promotion encouraging public support for federal recreation areas. Part of the promotion included embossing the names of 36 different National Parks and Monuments on the bottom of Sprite bottles, including, of course, Zion National Park. Coca-Cola continued the promotion into the late 1970s or early 1980s but the logo on the bottle we found went out of use around 1974, so it is certainly one of the earlier ones.

Now, all this isn't the most exciting or profound archaeology I’ve encountered … but it was awfully fun to round out the Service's 100th birthday with an echo of its 50th.

Brian C. Harmon, Archaeologist, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monumen.

12/21/2016

New pics being edited

12/19/2016

Awesome to see that Nevada is still truly wild..