The Grand Canyon National Park

Would you like a personal tour guide to tell you about the fantastic sights, sounds, history, wildlife and geology of the Grand Canyon while you are there? You can put one right in your pocket. You can designate your iPod-toting child as the ranger. Using video podcasts, NaturePods gives you the expertise of a ranger right on your own iPod or other mp3 player.

Stewart Aitchison (more) is a geologist, zoologist and a passionate naturalist and author. He shares his 40 plus years of experience teaching about the Colorado Plateau with you on this Grand Canyon NaturePod Tour Guide. His insights and photography grace this guide giving you an enhanced appreciation for the sights you are to behold.

Download Stewart to your device and take his expertise along as you explore the grand sights and extreme conditions that Grand Canyon National Park has to offer.

Here’s What You Get

• Over 2 hours of expert natural and cultural history divided into 36, 1 to 5 minute segments. Select what you want to listen to when you want to listen
• A choice of two versions to fit your device: The Audio version includes a single photo for each narration (mp3), the Video version uses a photo slide show to illustrate each
• Guidance from expert naturalist and geologist, Stewart Aitchison
• Archival photos illustrating the histories of
  • The pre- and early park days
  • Storyteller John Hance
  • Architect Mary Jane Colter
  • Presidents Teddy Roosevelt
  • Many other influential people
• Beautiful photographs illustrating each narrative

Here’s What You Learn

• of the geologic forces that laid the sediments of the canyon and continue to shape them
• the various Native American tribes that inhabited the region
• about the earliest explorers to the park’s establishment
• natural histories on black bears, bighorn sheep and mountain lions and others
• birds you are likely to see including ravens, peregrine falcons, and california condors
• wildflowers and of the wondrous collection of plant communities in the Canyon
• what trails meet your hiking ability
• the unusual squirrels of the Canyon

All this in a portable and easily searched guide to Grand Canyon National Park. The perfect tool to plan, execute, and reminisce about your visit to this spectacular area.