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Media Coverage

Educational solstice tour of tribal lands

LA Times, October 19, 2003

By Rosemary McClure, Times Staff Writer

Watch sunrise over the stark mesas and badlands of southwestern Colorado on a winter solstice tour to ancient astronomical sites. The seven-day educational tour is centered in the Ute Mountain Tribal Park.

"Few people ever get to see these sites and see the way the light and shadows interact with petroglyphs and formations," said Janet Ross of the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education in Monticello, Utah. "And it's a rare opportunity to see the region in winter."

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Winter Solstice Sojourn

national-geo-coverNational Geographic, November 2003

Trips - Hot or Cold

Most of us have watched sun rays slant in through a window or angle between walls, creating a play of light and shadow that shifts as the Earth rotates. For ancient cultures, the movement of the sun and its shadows served an especially important function on certain days of the year: It helped them track time and the seasons.

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Go with the H20: Rafting a Utah Canyon

outsidetravelerOutside Traveler, Summer 2004

By Will Palmer

Southwest Ed-Ventures is no ordinary outfitter. It's the ecotourism arm of the Monticello, Utah-based Four Corners School of Outdoor Education, a non-profit that uses the proceeds from Southwest Ed's programs-among them, multiday arts seminars with the Hopi in Arizona and wolf-tracking outings in Yellowstone-to fund a 25-year initiative to install outdoor-education programs in 426 elementary schools in the Four Corners states. The program has made significant strides in its first four years, thanks to the persistence of the Four Corners School staff, who, when they aren't running trips, are working toward raising the eco-consciousness of thousands of kids.

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