Series: 52 Episodes

Program Length: half-hour (23:31 min)

Program Description:

This park tells a story of the immensity of geological time. As naturalist Sue Ellen Fast takes a sometimes dramatic river-rafting tour down the Green River she sees how water has carved steep cliffs through mountains over thousands of years. Nearby erosion has revealed layers of pre-historic rock in the Morrison Formation where fossils of sauropods and other pre-historic animals are found. Sue Ellen also explores the blooming desert area here where antelope, prairie dogs and bull snakes make their home, and the higher regions where Pinyon pine flourish. She finds petroglyphs, evidence of the Freemont culture of 1000 years ago, and a more recent homestead situated by the only permanent creek in the area.