The Six Corners Podcast

Gilmore ScottWatercolor, acrylic and mix media artist, Montezuma CreekGilmore Scott grew up on the Navajo Nation doodling cartoon characters he saw on television. Teachers and peers encouraged him to pursue art as a career. Somewhere along the way he became a public lands forest firefighter and learned to look at the landscape he loves to portray in new ways. “I definitely stayed

Steve Simpson Owner of Twin Rocks Trading Post and Café in BluffGrowing up in Bluff for Steve Simpson meant exploring canyons to look for ancient ruins or cooling off in the San Juan River. After a lifetime of wandering the landscape around his childhood home, Simpson still wanders the land looking for, and easily finding, inspiration and wonder. visitutah.com/sixcornershttps://w

Willie Grayeyes started herding sheep as a 3-year-old while living on Navajo Mountain. He later rode a donkey for miles to get water for his family. He ended up spending 16 years on the Navajo Nation Council and now serves as chair of the San Juan County Commission. visitutah.com/sixcorners https://utahdinebikeyah.orgUtahscanyoncountry.com

Ranching, particularly in the desert, is a tough life. When the ranch she loved came under threat Heidi Redd found a unique way to protect the land she had come to cherish. Long after she has left the ranch for the last time this landscape east of Canyonlands National Park will be protected from development.“We are all extractive industries, from tourism, to climbers, to cattle,

Dave Bastian traveled to Utah to visit family as a child and always felt a pull to come back. He moved to Utah as an adult to partake in the diversity of outdoor experiences available in the Beehive state. Today, he manages a youth corps program in the Four Corners area as part of a stewardship program.“I moved to Utah in my 20s. I was blown away with what we had here in terms of

Steve Young was part of the local volunteer search and rescue team by the age of 13. So it is no surprise he ended up helping people enjoy the outdoors as a guide before moving on to his current job as a National Park Service river ranger on perhaps the most famous whitewater river in the country.visitutah.com/sixcornershttps://www.nps.gov/cany/index.htmhttp://utahscanyoncountry.co

Vaughn Hadenfeldt developed an interest in archaeology at an early age, so it was not a surprise when he started guiding people to some of the numerous ancient cultural sites in southeastern Utah. He also ended up leading research teams to thoroughly document the locations. Through the years he preached a soft impact on the fragile landscape to protect the precious places he was sh

In this first episode of Chapter 2, Matt interviews Nikki Cooley, member of the Navajo Nation; Co-Manager of the Tribal Climate Change Program at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. Nikki Cooley spent her childhood wandering the Southwest desert herding sheep, then took up guiding river trips and now leads efforts to help Native American tribes cope with, and help

We have a big announcement to make. Chapter 2 is coming on June 7th. Plus, enjoy a bonus episode shared from our friends at the WILD Podcast, produced by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. https://www.visitutah.com/sixcornershttps://wildlife.utah.gov/wild-podcast.html

Mill Creek winds its way through a beautiful red rock canyon and right into the heart of Moab. Once a quiet local favorite, you can now expect to see thousands of visitors hiking, swimming, and recreating in the area each year. In our final episode of chapter one, we speak with Betsy Byrne, a landscape architect with the National Park Service, who is working to preserve and maintai