ARCHES and CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARKS
Walking In Canyon Country
Nicky Leach
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in French, German, Japanese, and Korean.
ISBN 0-939365-53-7 (English Edition)
$5.95
ISBN 0-939365-69-3 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-70-7 (French Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-71-5 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-72-3 (Korean Edition)
$7.95

Our Arches and Canyonlands Pocket Portfolio^© Book provides in-depth information on the human and natural histories of the Park as well as spectacular color photography.

Walking in Canyon Country, I keep my eyes on my feet. Cairns offer subtle clues for me to follow. But mostly I go on instinct, placing one foot in front of the other, heel to toe. Walking meditation in a Zen rock garden. My breathing slows. I listen for rustling in the bushes, pay attention to far-off thunder and rain on the breeze, stay out of washes in summertime.

This is how I am in this place: quiet, attentive, slow, rhythmic, goal-less. My reward is simply that I am here...

Living with an elevation range of between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, eight inches of annual rainfall, torrid summers, and frigid winters, plants and animals have to be tough customers to make it here. Atop the plateaus and in areas with deeper soils, pinyon-juniper woodlands and native galleta grass and Indian ricegrass take hold, while old man sage and scrub oak occupy dune areas. Blackbrush, with its preference for gravelly sections, dominates much of the land. Pricklypear and other cactus occupy arid lowlands, but you’ll find only salt-tolerant pickleweed and seepweed in Arches’ salt valleys. The land is mainly slickrock and sand, incapable of retaining moisture from a passing thundercloud, so wildlife gravitates toward rivers and springs, and to potholes filled with rainwater. The acid green of cottonweeds and brilliant scarlet of monkey flower are reminders that water is a precious commodity here in the desert.

—From “Walking In Canyon Country” by Nicky Leach

Walking In Canyon Country
Nicky Leach
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in French, German, Japanese, and Korean.
ISBN 0-939365-53-7 (English Edition)
$5.95
ISBN 0-939365-69-3 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-70-7 (French Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-71-5 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-72-3 (Korean Edition)
$7.95

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