Insider's Look at Grand Canyon

Audio - Insider's Look #39 Spring Migratory Birds at Grand Canyon.

Interview with Park Rangers Pat and Ron Brown. They talk about the spring migration of birds through Grand Canyon National Park and the importance of International Bird Migration Day. http://www.nps.gov/grca/photosmultimedia/grca_pod.htm

Audio - Insider's Look #37 Youth Camps at Grand Canyon

An Interview with Park Ranger Megan Kohli about Youth and teen Camps. Working with Grand Canyon Youth, a non-profit partner of the national park, youth camps have been offered since 2008. This is an excellent opportunity for kids to get out and experience the backcountry and ride on the river rapids while learning about their national park. http://www.nps.gov/grca/photosmultimedia/grca_pod.htm

Audio - Insider's Look #35 Park Ranger Patrick Gamman talks with Artist-in-Residence Kim Henkel about her sculptures and pinhole photography.

My sculpture is a result of a physical process of spontaneous digging and marking in clay with my hands, a blind act of faith. As I work, I create the negative void that is ever present in this life full of ambiguity. Removing my hands, I fill the dark, cold space with materials. Then painstakingly peel away the soft layers of clay on the outside until the solid form is exposed -- like an excavation. The result is an expressive object like a fossil manifestation of the complexity of my desires, fears and expectations. The layers of clay are recycled over and over again as a foundation for more digging and building more sculpture. When my will tries to control the negative space, the outcome takes the form of fierce substances. But when I push with spontaneous marks of bold confidence, a wonderful evolution of probity and consciousness appears. The pinhole photographs are a documentation of the moment of discovering the sculptures in the Arizona landscape. - Kim Henkel

Audio - Insider's Look #33 Park Rangers Emily Davis and Maggi Daly celebrate Women's History Month.

Women have played an important role in Grand Canyon's history from the beginning, but they are not always as well known. Rangers Davis and Daly discuss three women important to Grand Canyon's architecture, culture, and ranger heritage. http://www.nps.gov/grca/photosmultimedia/inside-look-33.htm

Audio - Insider's Look #31 Artist in Residence, Erica Stankwytch Bailey's first backpack into the Grand Canyon.

On her first backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon, artist Erica Stankwytch Bailey tells of her adventures walking through snow on the rim, then down into the desert in the canyon's depths, and ultimately to a waterfall. If you would like to find out more about hiking in Grand Canyon National Park, visit : http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/backcountry.htm