Scenic Byway 12, Utah's first All- American Road, meanders 124 miles across a richly varied landscape and serves as the main route for this remote and rugged region of the Colorado Plateau. It passes through both Garfield and Wayne Counties in southern Utah, through red rock hoodoos, high plateaus, and tiny rural communities. This landscape is home to several ecosystems, from sagebrush flats to ponderosa pine forests and slick rock deserts to quaking aspen stands. Elevations range from 4,000 feet at the Escalante River to 11,000 feet at the top of Boulder Mountain. Along the way, there are two national parks, three state parks, a national recreation area, and a national monument. Views along this route are breathtaking. The experience of driving Scenic Byway 12 makes an impression to last a lifetime.Scenic Byway 12 was the last major highway built in the state of Utah, providing access to some of the most isolated communities in the West. It not only connects but also defines this region.For many, this byway supports their very livelihood, and for most, it is a way to and from home. To the traveler, Scenic Byway 12 is a specific destination, it is the journey.Take your time and enjoy the riches beyond your windshield by traveling with this tour guide while experiencing this remarkable corridor. Includes the Audio CD, "Local Music & Culture Along Scenic Byway 12"

Scenic Byway 12: Utah's First All American Road (Book plus Audio CD in pocket in back of book)

Gael Duffy Hill

Glen Canyon Natural History Association

The Grand Staircase region, located in Southern Utah, is highly regarded as one of the best places in the world to study the period near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs―a time called the Late Cretaceous. In a relatively short period (geologically speaking) of about 25 million years, southern Utah was at times covered with an ocean teeming with life, swampy shorelines, and massive rivers draining a huge mountain range in the west. This diversity of plant and animal life has led to incredible fossil discoveries in the Late Cretaceous rocks, that have become a critical piece in a puzzle that stretches from Alaska to Mexico.
In Where Dinosaurs Roamed, Christa Sadler looks at this important era in the history of life. Modern mammals, birds, and flowering plants were just getting their start, slowly gaining ground in the ecosystems of the time. Many of the fossils that paleontologists have found in southern Utah are unique: big, headline-grabbing creatures such as a dinosaur with fifteen horns; a distinctive cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex; a peculiar scissor-clawed dinosaur with feathers; and a thirty-foot long alligator relative. Add to this a host of smaller vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants, and paleontologists have been able to recreate entire ecosystems from the time between 74 and 100 million years ago. Altogether, these finds paint a picture of life in a very hot world, and may have lessons to teach us about our future world as well.

Where Dinosaurs Roamed: Lost Worlds of Utah's Grand Staircase

Science & Math

Sadler, Christa

Biological Sciences

Lee's Ferry Desert River Crossing

W. L. Rusho

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