Insider's Look at Grand Canyon

Ranger Andy Pearce discusses the Environmental Education Program at Grand Canyon National Park with host, Patrick Gamman . Educators. If you are interested in curriculum-based activities at Grand Canyon National Park or in the classroom, listen up! Learn about the many programs offered for school groups, from ranger-led activities at the canyon to rangers visiting your classroom.

Park Ranger and Insider's host, Patrick Gamman, interviews Randy Erwin about his work as a cowboy poet, yodeler, and demonstrator of rope tricks, as well as what he did as an Artist in Residence at Grand Canyon. He also sings and yodels!

Santa and his Elf, Peppermint, meet Grand Canyon authors.

Peppermint the Elf (Park Ranger Patrick Gamman) interviews Lori Rome, Thomas Ratz, and Tom Martin about their recent books. The interviews took place during the 2009 Holiday Open House at Books and More. http://www.nps.gov/grca/photosmultimedia/inside-look-022.htm

Featured in an art exhibit at Historic Kolb Studio from Nov. 13, 2009 through Feb. 17, 2010, Sally Hall talks about how Grand Canyon has been a source of inspiration for her artwork since she was nine years old.

An Interview with Park Ranger Chris Carroll by Park Ranger Patrick Gamman.

After returning to Phantom Ranch for the first time in 40 years to do interpretive programs, Ranger Chris Carroll describes his first canyon hike. What started as an adventure - ended in a bout with dysentery and severe dehydration. Carroll tells how he met a "knight in shining armor" who stuck with him for more than 7 hours and enabled him to rehydrate, recharge, and to walk back out of the canyon.

Let's examine some of the differences between Grand Canyon backpacking, "then and now." Today, we have ultra-light sleeping bags and really great shoes, but there are still many factors that can get you.

Landscape artist Peter A. Nisbet discusses his reasons for

painting at Grand Canyon National Park, sharing his inspirations and

experiences.

"Without question this is the greatest landscape on Earth for painters. A

landscape painter faces more challenges here than anywhere else on the planet.

You've got light moving quickly, you've got forms that are incredibly complex,

you've got an array of colors that are beyond description, you've got a time

issue of the sun clocking overhead. You have to finish these paintings in two

hours or you are just painting a moving shadow."

Park Ranger Patrick Gamman talks with Park Volunteer Sjors about caring for the trees at Phantom Ranch.

National Park Service Volunteer Sjors has lived and worked at Phantom Ranch for 20 years and is responsible for watering the vegetation that provides thousands of visitors each year with a cool resting place in the shade.

In this podcast, we have the opportunity to meet Capt. John Hance, portrayed by Park Ranger, Ron Brown. Hance was an early Grand Canyon pioneer and storyteller who first saw the Grand Canyon in 1883, then called the area home for the rest of his life.

Hance entertained early visitors with dozens of tall tales - many with alternate endings. It was said that he never told the same to story in the same way twice.

Park Ranger Patrick Gamman joins Park Ranger Nicole DeLuca for a who's who of Grand Canyon history at the Grand Canyon Cemetery.

Visit this serene and beautiful location and final resting place for many of the area's earliest pioneers. If you're here on Saturday, October 31, 2009, join Ranger DeLuca for a Halloween Full Moon Cemetary Walk.

"Unimaginable, I had seen it on maps, I have seen it on pictures, but to see it in reality is awesome! It is one of those very, very unique and special places in our world. As Secretary of the Interior, I have the great honor to be at some of the greatest landscapes in America: the Apostle Islands, Acadia National Park in Maine, Glacier and Waterton in Canada and the United States, Alaska and Denali, and here I am in Grand Canyon. In days ahead I will places like Rocky Mountain and others. We truly, as national parks, have been given the responsibility to be the guardians of the planets best crown jewels."