WEBVTT 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:10.439 Hi, everyone. Thank you for staying to the bitter end. Um, I do appreciate 00:00:13.750 --> 00:00:17.517 every single one of you for being here and a special round of a hall once 00:00:17.550 --> 00:00:24.396 again for Matthew, Matt, for inviting me and posting this. It's incredible. 00:00:24.429 --> 00:00:27.697 Just share the love in the knowledge of the Grand Canyon. Today I want to 00:00:27.730 --> 00:00:31.407 talk to you a little bit about the Grand Canyon Trust who we are, what we 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.997 do. And then to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes into the JS 00:00:35.030 --> 00:00:38.086 program, we work a lot behind the scenes so a lot of people actually don't 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:42.097 see what we do except for the final product. So I'll give you a little 00:00:42.130 --> 00:00:45.906 glimpse into my world. 00:00:45.939 --> 00:00:50.156 The I'm going to have to fiddle with this computer for a second. One 00:00:50.189 --> 00:00:52.826 second. Sorry. 00:00:52.859 --> 00:00:54.876 There. 00:00:54.909 --> 00:01:01.656 Can we get rid of the note, huh? Sorry. I really don't want the notes, 00:01:01.689 --> 00:01:05.406 okay? 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.046 Perfect. Okay, Thank you. Uh, the Grand Canyon Trust was established in 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.557 nineteen eighty five, mainly around natural resource issues around the 00:01:13.590 --> 00:01:15.947 Grand Canyon. 00:01:15.980 --> 00:01:19.557 And soon after, the establishment of the trust became very clear that the 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:23.956 threats did not stop at the edge of the canyon itself, but extended much 00:01:23.989 --> 00:01:28.206 further into the Colorado Plateau. And an impassioned plea was made that 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:31.867 the trust extend their work beyond the cannon and across the entire 00:01:31.900 --> 00:01:36.397 Colorado Plateau. Today, our mission is to safeguard the wonders of the 00:01:36.430 --> 00:01:40.367 Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau while supporting the rights of 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.777 native peoples. We envision a Grand Canyon and a Colorado plateau where 00:01:44.810 --> 00:01:49.536 wildness, a diversity of native plants and animals, clean air and flowing 00:01:49.569 --> 00:01:54.736 rivers abound. Sovereign Charbel nations thrive a livable climate indoors 00:01:54.769 --> 00:01:59.477 , and people passionately worked to protect the region they love for 00:01:59.510 --> 00:02:06.277 future generation shins. Our focus, um, in our team's work collaboratively 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:10.036 together across many different areas across the plateau are Native 00:02:10.069 --> 00:02:14.656 American team works to support inter tribal networks, build resilient 00:02:14.689 --> 00:02:19.737 economies and help protect ancestral homelands are energy. Team has taken 00:02:19.770 --> 00:02:24.166 on a very bold challenge for carbon neutrality across the Colorado Plateau. 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.596 By two thousand thirty five and works to prevent uranium contamination, 00:02:28.629 --> 00:02:32.677 an unconventional field development. We work in a variety of facets across 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:36.337 our public lands to protect and restore them and advocate for a better 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:41.566 balance of livestock grazed and livestock free public lands. We have work 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:46.036 to do springs restoration across the North Rim in southern Utah and work 00:02:46.069 --> 00:02:50.717 on market based strategies to restore, mitigate and adapt in the face of 00:02:50.750 --> 00:02:55.767 water scarcity. But today I'm not going to talk about Haldeman all the 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.497 many aspects of the Grand Canyon Trust. But I'm going to talk to you 00:02:59.530 --> 00:03:03.156 specifically about the G. I s program. Um, what have been working to build 00:03:03.189 --> 00:03:07.487 since two thousand twelve and what we've been recently working on for 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:13.087 Grand Canyon. So in the GS program, we work on advanced cartography. We 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:17.927 also perform spatial analysis and interactive Web mapping. We take this 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:22.467 further into interactive storytelling, providing data visualizations in 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:26.297 strategic planning for all of the Grand Canyon trust conservation programs 00:03:26.330 --> 00:03:32.036 as well about as well as our communications and our development teams. So 00:03:32.069 --> 00:03:36.436 let's get into Grand Canyon and what we've been doing recently. 00:03:36.469 --> 00:03:40.017 Most of our work for Grand Canyon in the recent years has primarily been 00:03:40.050 --> 00:03:44.226 in the education and outreach arena. We've been doing this by working with 00:03:44.259 --> 00:03:48.756 E every story. Maps platform. Um, one example of this is our threatened 00:03:48.789 --> 00:03:52.017 waters. Grand Canyon's Seeps and Springs interactive story map, which 00:03:52.050 --> 00:03:55.617 takes users through a journey of the precious springs that exist 00:03:55.650 --> 00:03:59.316 throughout the Grand Canyon region. And the work that we're doing with 00:03:59.349 --> 00:04:04.184 volunteers to restore these springs across the North Rim Land ants. 00:04:04.217 --> 00:04:07.314 Another example of a story map that we've produced. This is actually an 00:04:07.347 --> 00:04:11.694 older map, then the threatened waters, um, Grand Canyon's seeps in Springs. 00:04:11.727 --> 00:04:15.083 This is the Keep the Canyon Grand map, which actually is an every award 00:04:15.116 --> 00:04:20.443 winning story map that won the two thousand and fifteen story, My second 00:04:20.476 --> 00:04:26.324 place in the injury ah, story map competition at their user conference. 00:04:26.357 --> 00:04:30.604 This one tells the story of Grand Canyon and its threats, threats with 00:04:30.637 --> 00:04:34.824 uranium mining as well as development threats across the canyon, and tells 00:04:34.857 --> 00:04:40.024 the story of people fighting to protect the canyon from these threats, a 00:04:40.057 --> 00:04:43.423 recent one that we produced in honor of the Grand Canyon Centennial on one 00:04:43.456 --> 00:04:46.704 of the things that brought us all here today, is the story map that we 00:04:46.737 --> 00:04:50.623 created called the Grand Canyon in one hundred. Image is one of the things 00:04:50.656 --> 00:04:53.854 I like to do A lot of times is break the rules for anyone who knows me 00:04:53.887 --> 00:04:57.514 well. And so with this story map, we used it in a little bit of different 00:04:57.547 --> 00:05:01.954 way than what folks normally use the story journal for. Normally, they use 00:05:01.987 --> 00:05:05.293 it like that. Keep the canyon grand or the threatened water story where it 00:05:05.326 --> 00:05:09.433 has a lot of text that you walk through. This one actually is a photo tour. 00:05:09.466 --> 00:05:13.464 Um, So instead of using the photo tour or the photo Siri's that as we 00:05:13.497 --> 00:05:18.113 provided, we decided to do this, um, within the story journal. And I found 00:05:18.146 --> 00:05:22.743 out on my way here, um, that isra wants to highlight this in their march. 00:05:22.776 --> 00:05:28.394 Blawg. So we'LL see if that happens. Um so keep an eye out for that. You 00:05:28.427 --> 00:05:30.793 never know when it comes to media if it's going to get bumped or if 00:05:30.826 --> 00:05:34.584 they're going to pick it up or not. Um so I wanted to give kind of a 00:05:34.617 --> 00:05:37.503 behind the scenes into my approach. When we create these stories were 00:05:37.536 --> 00:05:41.524 always integrating interactive maps into them. But we try to make the 00:05:41.557 --> 00:05:45.604 interactive products as versatile as we possibly can. So within the 00:05:45.637 --> 00:05:49.363 interactive matches, always a goal to use the text on the side. So, like 00:05:49.396 --> 00:05:53.243 in this Cascade type layout, where we're trying to draw people into what 00:05:53.276 --> 00:05:57.123 the content of the map is that way, if they don't want to interact with 00:05:57.156 --> 00:06:00.623 the map, they quickly already get your message. So the message here was to 00:06:00.656 --> 00:06:04.274 highlight how many volunteer hours which we've laid out directly with the 00:06:04.307 --> 00:06:09.233 five thousand six hundred. If you want to dive deeper, you can dive Eve 00:06:09.266 --> 00:06:13.284 because it's an interactive map. The other thing that we can do is we can 00:06:13.317 --> 00:06:16.724 highlight the stories of our individual volunteers, and this is quite 00:06:16.757 --> 00:06:20.894 precious. Um, and I was going to read it, but I can't read the tiny print 00:06:20.927 --> 00:06:26.613 on this. So if someone 00:06:26.646 --> 00:06:30.904 if someone can read it, I thought it would be boring, but it's actually 00:06:30.937 --> 00:06:34.753 pretty exciting. There's an A T V and I get to dig in the mud and there's 00:06:34.786 --> 00:06:40.074 frogs, and it's actually pretty cool out here. The next generation of 00:06:40.107 --> 00:06:42.553 conservationists 00:06:42.586 --> 00:06:47.534 seven years old, By the way, one of the other great things with these 00:06:47.567 --> 00:06:50.293 interactive story maps is to take them out and use them throughout. Our 00:06:50.326 --> 00:06:54.844 website used them as engagement tools so people can better understand if 00:06:54.877 --> 00:06:57.784 they want to get out in the field where we've been and how many volunteers 00:06:57.817 --> 00:07:00.604 have been there. So this is an example where we've used this map on our 00:07:00.637 --> 00:07:04.474 volunteer page. Or if we want to zoom into a specific area, you can see 00:07:04.507 --> 00:07:08.193 what kind of restoration work that's taking place there. We have plans to 00:07:08.226 --> 00:07:11.993 expand this into the future, so keep an eye out. Um, and of course, if 00:07:12.026 --> 00:07:15.784 anyone is familiar with the Grand Canyon Trust or the G. I s programs work 00:07:15.817 --> 00:07:18.863 in its first get a hand of people who are familiar with the trust. Already 00:07:18.896 --> 00:07:24.334 , Clark 00:07:24.367 --> 00:07:27.824 and how many are familiar with our devious program or some of the products 00:07:27.857 --> 00:07:32.873 that we've produced in one way or the other great hands two years? Well, 00:07:32.906 --> 00:07:37.623 so cartography is a huge part of the work that we do. Obviously, we're 00:07:37.656 --> 00:07:40.604 place bass, and I don't have to tell this crowd how important it is to 00:07:40.637 --> 00:07:45.784 have maps in order to understand that place. Um, it is not the only tool 00:07:45.817 --> 00:07:50.034 that you can use, but it is a very power for one, especially in our modern 00:07:50.067 --> 00:07:56.204 technology technological days. So, So cardigan Cartography is definitely a 00:07:56.237 --> 00:07:59.483 very strong pull for me personally is something that I love. And I love 00:07:59.516 --> 00:08:03.574 telling this story, and I like to tell the same story in different ways. 00:08:03.607 --> 00:08:08.690 Um And so here in the Grand Canyon, what I did is they turned the Escalade 00:08:08.723 --> 00:08:12.091 development that was proposed for the confluence of the Colorado in the 00:08:12.124 --> 00:08:15.770 little Colorado River and displayed this and almost a three D type 00:08:15.803 --> 00:08:20.000 representation. So when you look at it, you go. Wow. Someone actually 00:08:20.033 --> 00:08:24.981 really wants to build a gondola down to the confluence. And exactly, 00:08:25.014 --> 00:08:29.310 that's the exact reaction we want to see. Hands in the hands to the face 00:08:29.343 --> 00:08:34.640 of shaking your head. Another type of map that I have created recently is 00:08:34.673 --> 00:08:39.800 this active mining claims within the mineral a trawl around Grand Canyon. 00:08:39.833 --> 00:08:44.861 Here we have graduated circles to represent the number of claims held by 00:08:44.894 --> 00:08:47.800 each of the individual companies. And I'LL come back to this one a little 00:08:47.833 --> 00:08:51.300 bit more in one of my challenges of mapping the Grand Canyon of the 00:08:51.333 --> 00:08:54.331 example of data. 00:08:54.364 --> 00:08:57.880 But one of the things I do strategically within the jazz program is to 00:08:57.913 --> 00:09:01.611 take a product and not allow it to be static, but to make it into an 00:09:01.644 --> 00:09:06.250 interactive in a level livable breathing document where people can dive 00:09:06.283 --> 00:09:10.091 deeper into the issues some more Recently we have launched this exact same 00:09:10.124 --> 00:09:13.790 data and an interactive form that you can go on our website and explore 00:09:13.823 --> 00:09:17.270 the individual claims around the canyon. We're going to take this one step 00:09:17.303 --> 00:09:23.951 further and mapped these into three D Colin columns bending art gs pro to 00:09:23.984 --> 00:09:26.701 our will. 00:09:26.734 --> 00:09:31.811 Thank you to David Vines, my genius associate who painstakingly worked. 00:09:31.844 --> 00:09:35.880 I'm pulling these claims into a three d view. 00:09:35.913 --> 00:09:40.571 The other thing that is not quite traditional mapping, but it is creating 00:09:40.604 --> 00:09:44.321 graphical representations of the issues that we face within conservation. 00:09:44.354 --> 00:09:48.920 Here you see an example of the brassica pipe in uranium, or typical of 00:09:48.953 --> 00:09:52.561 what you would find around Canyon Mine on the south rim of the Grand 00:09:52.594 --> 00:09:55.030 Canyon. 00:09:55.063 --> 00:09:59.741 So not everything we dio is mapping threats, although unfortunately, that 00:09:59.774 --> 00:10:02.790 seems to be one of the primary things that I've been working on working on 00:10:02.823 --> 00:10:07.812 the past couple of years. We also get to map protection of the of the 00:10:07.845 --> 00:10:11.621 Grand Canyon. On Saturday, representative Jehovah announced the Grand 00:10:11.654 --> 00:10:16.731 Canyon Centennial Protection Act. Um, I produced a series of maps for our 00:10:16.764 --> 00:10:20.672 communications team, and the idea here is to create a Siri's where it can 00:10:20.705 --> 00:10:25.032 be simplistic, um, and to create a series where there's some style and 00:10:25.065 --> 00:10:28.401 there's options for media. If anyone wants to grab some of these maps to 00:10:28.434 --> 00:10:32.572 help us spread the word for the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, So 00:10:32.605 --> 00:10:36.342 I'll just walk through quickly. It's not. This isn't rocket science. I 00:10:36.375 --> 00:10:41.001 just take off the background, keep it simple, and a lot of times media is 00:10:41.034 --> 00:10:45.731 more likely to pick it up. Then they are. If it's actually styled. So, um 00:10:45.764 --> 00:10:49.962 , with each of these examples that we can add in the minds, we can add in 00:10:49.995 --> 00:10:54.302 the claims represented in a little bit of a different way. It's a bit much 00:10:54.335 --> 00:10:59.952 to ask media to grab a product that takes readers three or four minutes to 00:10:59.985 --> 00:11:06.131 try to digest. So the goal here is to give a snapshot in with our society 00:11:06.164 --> 00:11:10.072 that seems to have a hard time focusing in. Hopefully, we can capture 00:11:10.105 --> 00:11:13.971 capture them in a few seconds so we could take the background back off. 00:11:14.004 --> 00:11:17.542 Let's make it a little simpler. So I wanted to share a little bit of my 00:11:17.575 --> 00:11:22.672 personal story and my challenge when I was faced with mapping Grand Canyon 00:11:22.705 --> 00:11:26.202 for the first time. And it's a challenge I still continue to face as a 00:11:26.235 --> 00:11:32.452 cartographer. Um, I am from North Carolina, so I was used to a, uh, 00:11:32.485 --> 00:11:35.832 topography that kind of made sense. Um, we go from the mountains in the 00:11:35.865 --> 00:11:40.532 West to the foothills rolling hills, and the Piedmont gets a little 00:11:40.565 --> 00:11:44.782 flatter in the coastal plain. And when it comes to shaded relief, that was 00:11:44.815 --> 00:11:48.072 really simple to map. It didn't have to put a lot of thought into it. Well 00:11:48.105 --> 00:11:51.192 , when Roger Clark are Grand Canyon program director, want to meet a map? 00:11:51.225 --> 00:11:55.021 Grand Canyon? It was a very different story. I found that those typical in 00:11:55.054 --> 00:11:59.391 traditional shaded reliefs really oversimplified the desert environment, 00:11:59.424 --> 00:12:04.101 often times making some of the places that are hotter. Give this sense of 00:12:04.134 --> 00:12:09.822 coolness by being blue. So I worked for quite some time. It took me 00:12:09.855 --> 00:12:12.933 several years before I found the Grady in't that I really loved. But I 00:12:12.966 --> 00:12:17.734 worked to create a personalized, shaded relief that mimic the vegetation 00:12:17.767 --> 00:12:20.904 and rock layers that you see across the Grand Canyon in the Colorado 00:12:20.937 --> 00:12:25.713 Plateau. So here you see an example on the right is, um you will see the 00:12:25.746 --> 00:12:29.994 aerial imagery and on the left is my shaded relief. The idea is that 00:12:30.027 --> 00:12:33.904 they're very close together. 00:12:33.937 --> 00:12:37.563 The other thing that I encountered when I stepped into mapping the Grand 00:12:37.596 --> 00:12:42.333 Canyon was this challenge of contours. Um, I am an avid hiker and 00:12:42.366 --> 00:12:47.514 backpacker, and so I wanted to map contours at a interval that you would 00:12:47.547 --> 00:12:51.173 actually go on the ground and used like a topographic map. One of the 00:12:51.206 --> 00:12:55.384 number one request I get from staff is also to map contours. So when I 00:12:55.417 --> 00:12:58.833 tried the first time to ever go in and do this, I threw in some intervals 00:12:58.866 --> 00:13:03.313 . I actually didn't pull the one that I did because I deleted thumb 00:13:03.346 --> 00:13:07.634 because I never used them. But at even at the one hundred foot interval 00:13:07.667 --> 00:13:11.203 trying to map this, the Grand Canyon became this gray blob that was 00:13:11.236 --> 00:13:16.223 completely useless. Um, so then I discovered, Well, I'm gonna have to do 00:13:16.256 --> 00:13:19.904 much larger interval, So this isn't going to be useful for really anyone 00:13:19.937 --> 00:13:24.374 on the ground. And so if you actually pick up a copy of the map that is 00:13:24.407 --> 00:13:28.323 over there, it is not meant for you to go out and try to hike with that 00:13:28.356 --> 00:13:34.353 map. Please don't unless you are very familiar with those trails. So 00:13:34.386 --> 00:13:38.234 ultimately with a lot of cartographic magic. Um, when If you're curious on 00:13:38.267 --> 00:13:41.394 how I do it, I don't have time to go into those details with you here 00:13:41.427 --> 00:13:44.884 today. But I'm more than happy to share some of my tips and tricks there. 00:13:44.917 --> 00:13:48.933 But with some cartographic magic, we end up with a really nice rendering 00:13:48.966 --> 00:13:51.984 of the Grand Canyon in concert lines. Again, don't take it out on the 00:13:52.017 --> 00:13:55.404 trail. If you're interested in actually going out on the trail, you should 00:13:55.437 --> 00:13:58.914 check out Grand Canyon trust dot org's Forest Last Hikes. We have the 00:13:58.947 --> 00:14:02.414 Colorado Plateau Explorer, which talks about some of the hikes around the 00:14:02.447 --> 00:14:05.803 Colorado Plateau and the conservation issues that we face within those 00:14:05.836 --> 00:14:09.154 landscapes. So the other thing that I faced when I looked at these 00:14:09.187 --> 00:14:14.859 contours was an oversimplification of the area on the Coconino Plateau. Um 00:14:14.892 --> 00:14:19.279 , so here I finally achieved within the Grand Canyon a more simplified 00:14:19.312 --> 00:14:23.129 view with the contour lines that I thought was aesthetically pleasing. But 00:14:23.162 --> 00:14:28.458 I had lost a lot of detail on the plateau areas, and so for this specific 00:14:28.491 --> 00:14:31.999 product, we covered it up with the textbooks. I didn't have to solve that 00:14:32.032 --> 00:14:36.668 problem that is still something that I face, um, consistently, especially 00:14:36.701 --> 00:14:41.379 when our staff members want a topographic map and want a topographic map 00:14:41.412 --> 00:14:47.168 of the entire Grand Canyon. Yeah, right. 00:14:47.201 --> 00:14:50.539 So one of my little things just my little nuggets that I like to do when I 00:14:50.572 --> 00:14:53.769 am working with the Grand Canyon, and it's at a skill where I could do 00:14:53.802 --> 00:14:58.478 this a lot of times, you see, um, the center line portrayed for the 00:14:58.511 --> 00:15:02.918 Colorado River. Well, we know the Colorado River to be far more dynamic 00:15:02.951 --> 00:15:05.948 than just the center line. There's areas that are whiter. There's areas 00:15:05.981 --> 00:15:11.228 that are narrow, and I like to show those within my cartographic products. 00:15:11.261 --> 00:15:15.369 So I take the contours on either side of the canyon and shade that area 00:15:15.402 --> 00:15:20.478 in instead of using a line to represent the river. And then I add a couple 00:15:20.511 --> 00:15:24.859 of little things like, um lighting to try to give it just a little bit of 00:15:24.892 --> 00:15:29.818 a shimmer. I want to work harder to try to make that representative to the 00:15:29.851 --> 00:15:33.999 rapid location, so maybe in a couple of years you might see some products 00:15:34.032 --> 00:15:37.558 that are more realistic to the ground, 00:15:37.591 --> 00:15:40.039 Um, so real quickly, they just want to walk through the data challenge, 00:15:40.072 --> 00:15:43.058 which I don't think if any of you have worked with data and G i s, you 00:15:43.091 --> 00:15:47.659 know that this is probably one of our number one hurdles. Um, So I just 00:15:47.692 --> 00:15:51.129 wanted to use the example of the mining claims a map that I showed you 00:15:51.162 --> 00:15:54.478 earlier. So that data is pulled from the Beale them, And it comes from a 00:15:54.511 --> 00:15:59.119 database called the L. R. Two thousand, and this is special data. It is 00:15:59.152 --> 00:16:02.718 referenced by the Meridian Township range and section. So when I saw that 00:16:02.751 --> 00:16:09.739 , I was like, Oh, I can use this Well, I thought I could It was not as 00:16:09.772 --> 00:16:14.369 easy as I thought it was going to be. So what I found out was that the BL 00:16:14.402 --> 00:16:19.769 EMS data set for the P. L S s does not match the unique identifier for 00:16:19.802 --> 00:16:24.630 Mirian taint Township rains and section within the two databases. So what 00:16:24.663 --> 00:16:30.939 happens? They don't link. So in order to fix this, I had to either decide 00:16:30.972 --> 00:16:37.899 to add the P l s s um township range in section ID into the er l r two 00:16:37.932 --> 00:16:43.220 thousand system or to integrate the Meridian township rations section from 00:16:43.253 --> 00:16:48.220 the L. R. Two thousand into the pls, I decided to integrate it into the P 00:16:48.253 --> 00:16:52.140 . L s s system. This way that any time we want to look at the mining 00:16:52.173 --> 00:16:56.510 claims at any time, stamp of time, that is already done. And then all we 00:16:56.543 --> 00:17:00.240 have to do is connect the data itself. Because as soon as I downloaded 00:17:00.273 --> 00:17:04.429 this data, it was out of date. 00:17:04.462 --> 00:17:08.640 So once we connect the two databases here, I'm presented with another 00:17:08.673 --> 00:17:13.520 challenge. The challenge where we have multiple claims that stack into one 00:17:13.553 --> 00:17:21.459 area. How easy is it to take an area and map by the claim holder the 00:17:21.492 --> 00:17:24.620 number of claims that they hold, but it's represented by a little square 00:17:24.653 --> 00:17:29.270 that stacks up on top of each other. Um, so we needed to convert that into 00:17:29.303 --> 00:17:33.239 something that was easier for people to understand. My solution was 00:17:33.272 --> 00:17:37.149 running some frequency statistic. It statistics by the climate of the 00:17:37.182 --> 00:17:42.100 claim holder and portraying those as graduated circles, hence getting Tio 00:17:42.133 --> 00:17:48.120 with some more cartographic magic, the final product that you see today. 00:17:48.153 --> 00:17:51.929 I wanted to give you a little glimpse of what's up. What's next for the 00:17:51.962 --> 00:17:57.310 program? Um, we've been working Teo, create a product for the upcoming 00:17:57.343 --> 00:18:01.239 spring advocate where we're going to be showing the differences in the 00:18:01.272 --> 00:18:05.070 boundary in the history of Grand Canyon National Park. Um, this 00:18:05.103 --> 00:18:08.989 compliments very closely and article that Roger Clark, who is in the 00:18:09.022 --> 00:18:12.140 audience today and has been speaking with people for the past couple of 00:18:12.173 --> 00:18:16.590 days, um, it complements his text directly, and this is on purpose. We 00:18:16.623 --> 00:18:20.871 customize all of these prat the cartographic products to directly fit with 00:18:20.904 --> 00:18:24.881 the text of the advocate itself just real quickly. I'm not going to go 00:18:24.914 --> 00:18:27.282 through each of these because if you've been here for the past couple of 00:18:27.315 --> 00:18:30.951 days, you've seen these already, or they're sitting around in the room. 00:18:30.984 --> 00:18:34.092 But each of these are some of the historic maps that we pulled together 00:18:34.125 --> 00:18:38.822 for this effort and pulling them in and again thanks to David Vines for 00:18:38.855 --> 00:18:43.012 digitizing doing through the pain of digitizing these and we will be using 00:18:43.045 --> 00:18:46.582 them. So Okay, take a look at the Spring Advocate. If you're not a member 00:18:46.615 --> 00:18:49.842 of the trust and you don't receive one of these by mail, you can become a 00:18:49.875 --> 00:18:53.611 member of the trust and receive one by mail. Or you can also find them 00:18:53.644 --> 00:18:57.832 online when we do launch the online versions. Another sneak peek of 00:18:57.865 --> 00:19:00.562 something that we haven't quite released yet. But we've been playing 00:19:00.595 --> 00:19:04.451 around with his other forms of three D mapping to map the threats and the 00:19:04.484 --> 00:19:07.802 protection opportunities within Grand Canyon, and we'LL spread it out 00:19:07.835 --> 00:19:13.161 across the entire Colorado Plateau once we perfected a little bit. 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So we'd love for you to sign up for a stay informed on what we're 00:19:53.575 --> 00:19:58.211 doing. We will send emails about volunteer opportunities and action alerts 00:19:58.244 --> 00:20:03.461 and also please, um, it's amazing how important social media is in our day 00:20:03.494 --> 00:20:08.211 in time. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter Instagram, YouTube 00:20:08.244 --> 00:20:12.691 video. All of these places um, it helps us. It helps get the word out. Um 00:20:12.724 --> 00:20:17.082 , these things work by use individually sharing it, and then it pops up on 00:20:17.115 --> 00:20:20.941 your friend's page and it goes on and on. If you're so interested. I also 00:20:20.974 --> 00:20:24.868 have a twitter page. I admit that I'm horrible at keeping up with it, 00:20:24.901 --> 00:20:32.901 trying to be better. 00:20:38.290 --> 00:20:43.188 What anybody have any questions? 00:20:43.221 --> 00:20:47.987 Oh, Kevin. 00:20:48.020 --> 00:20:52.207 Hi, Stephanie. Thank you for your work. Hi, Kevin. Thanks for coming. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:59.688 Quick question. Have you have you thought about or made any maps that 00:20:59.721 --> 00:21:05.507 attempted, uh, depict the auditory landscape linnean soundscape 00:21:05.540 --> 00:21:10.178 specifically in relation to areas where you can experience natural silence 00:21:10.211 --> 00:21:17.547 unimpaired by human sounds? I love this question. Um, Ellen, um, a lady 00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:21.007 who works with us in the Grand Canyon, her and I have been talking about 00:21:21.040 --> 00:21:25.027 creating some sort of soundscape for quite some time. Um, it is something 00:21:25.060 --> 00:21:30.217 I would absolutely love to do. And, um uh, basically, what it's going to 00:21:30.250 --> 00:21:36.628 take is getting those audio or lack of audio, Um, that natural sound in 00:21:36.661 --> 00:21:42.098 the places where we need it. Perhaps the sound of a rapid, um, or, uh, an 00:21:42.131 --> 00:21:47.477 animal captured on tape. And then what I would also like to do is compare 00:21:47.510 --> 00:21:52.638 that to the areas where it's not so quiet. Um, like the helicopter noise 00:21:52.671 --> 00:21:57.348 that we here in Grand Canyon. Um and so I think that could be quite 00:21:57.381 --> 00:22:02.328 powerful to see what it could be versus how people actually exist within 00:22:02.361 --> 00:22:05.947 the canyon at times with all of this, all the noise. Thank you for that 00:22:05.980 --> 00:22:09.388 question. 00:22:09.421 --> 00:22:17.421 I'm 00:22:24.653 --> 00:22:31.380 Well, if you have a have a location associated with them will map it. 00:22:31.413 --> 00:22:36.331 I'm glad to see that you stripped down some of those illustrations and you 00:22:36.364 --> 00:22:40.601 mentioned that the media are, like, more likely to pick that up and use it. 00:22:40.634 --> 00:22:45.051 And also for the reader, I still get it newspaper in the morning. And 00:22:45.084 --> 00:22:48.990 when they print these images, you can't even read the text on him. You 00:22:49.023 --> 00:22:54.620 can't read the type and they're blurred out, so less is better. As far as 00:22:54.653 --> 00:22:58.170 I'm concerned for that, if you want real details that you'LL get, you know 00:22:58.203 --> 00:23:01.930 , go online, get a digital version. A lot of people may have that by 00:23:01.963 --> 00:23:05.771 reading than these paper online, but I still have the print copy, so 00:23:05.804 --> 00:23:09.190 that's a good improvement for me. So one of just a comment to kind of 00:23:09.223 --> 00:23:12.821 follow up on that, um funny, like, funny story where I find it funny at 00:23:12.854 --> 00:23:19.591 this point when I first started stripping and simplifying the maps it it 00:23:19.624 --> 00:23:24.180 calls waves, people really did not like information being taken off of the 00:23:24.213 --> 00:23:28.581 map that I still spend quite a bit of time having to justify everything 00:23:28.614 --> 00:23:33.140 that's being stripped away. Um, and so it's difficult. You have to find 00:23:33.173 --> 00:23:36.611 that balance of how much information do you put in? And how much 00:23:36.644 --> 00:23:40.091 information do you keep out? We probably spend just a much amount of time 00:23:40.124 --> 00:23:47.591 Brainstorming what not to put in as we dio what you put into the mouth. 00:23:47.624 --> 00:23:52.301 One hundred years later. I'm wondering why do we still have active mining 00:23:52.334 --> 00:23:59.571 claims in the canyon, huh? You and me both. Uh um So I encourage you If, 00:23:59.604 --> 00:24:03.410 um, if there's something that means something to you, um, the mining 00:24:03.443 --> 00:24:07.470 claims to stop this permanently. Please let your representatives know that 00:24:07.503 --> 00:24:11.960 you support the Grand Canyon Protection Act, and let's make this which are 00:24:11.993 --> 00:24:19.993 all permanent. 00:24:22.614 --> 00:24:26.534 Stephanie. Thanks for your work and for the work of your organization, 00:24:26.567 --> 00:24:31.724 Grand Canyon Trust in helping to preserve this area that, um, everybody 00:24:31.757 --> 00:24:35.524 loves so much. I was occurring to me as I was listening Everybody's 00:24:35.557 --> 00:24:40.224 presentation that people do this work because they love it and you don't 00:24:40.257 --> 00:24:44.903 always get that in academic organizations. And it's clear that you love 00:24:44.936 --> 00:24:48.903 what you're doing and love the place that you're working on. You mentioned 00:24:48.936 --> 00:24:52.313 something about a mapping springs in an effort to try to protect 00:24:52.346 --> 00:24:58.784 freshwater systems. And it reminded me of the growth of citizen science, 00:24:58.817 --> 00:25:03.254 the work that the spring Stewardship counsel is doing. And EPA has a 00:25:03.287 --> 00:25:06.653 citizen science website. I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the 00:25:06.686 --> 00:25:12.524 role of getting citizens involved in developing data that can then be used 00:25:12.557 --> 00:25:16.774 in mapping projects and for conservation. So our volunteer crews are quite 00:25:16.807 --> 00:25:21.393 powerful. I think you actually have a couple or had a couple of volunteers 00:25:21.426 --> 00:25:24.103 better sitting around. Has anyone volunteered with us on any trips that 00:25:24.136 --> 00:25:31.053 air in here or helped lead a trip? Wendy, I'm going to point you out. Um, 00:25:31.086 --> 00:25:34.704 the data that's collected, there's no way that we could do all of this on 00:25:34.737 --> 00:25:39.924 our own. Um, and the data is very important. And without that data, um, I 00:25:39.957 --> 00:25:43.563 can't create what I'm creating, and it doesn't inform the issues that 00:25:43.596 --> 00:25:48.214 we're fighting, um, are fighting against or fighting for. And so the 00:25:48.247 --> 00:25:52.893 citizen force that we take out is again quite powerful, and it ranges. Um 00:25:52.926 --> 00:25:56.793 , sometimes they're doing something where it takes years before it's ever 00:25:56.826 --> 00:26:00.764 actually digitized or put into something in a cartographic sense. Um, are 00:26:00.797 --> 00:26:04.234 sometimes we're doing something that's a little more instantaneous. Um, an 00:26:04.267 --> 00:26:07.853 example of that is our where cows don't graze project that we're actually 00:26:07.886 --> 00:26:13.343 doing in southern Utah, Um, where it is directly fed into, um, and every 00:26:13.376 --> 00:26:16.793 survey the survey one, two three application. Once they fill out their 00:26:16.826 --> 00:26:21.303 survey online, we're directly mapping the work that they're doing, um, 00:26:21.336 --> 00:26:24.204 with the springs restoration work. It's something that we've been doing 00:26:24.237 --> 00:26:26.956 for quite some time and do with it and have done with a lot of other 00:26:26.989 --> 00:26:32.666 partners and especially along the North Rim lands, working with the Spring 00:26:32.699 --> 00:26:37.416 Stewardship Institute in northern Arizona and um, feeding information back 00:26:37.449 --> 00:26:43.406 into their system 00:26:43.439 --> 00:26:48.126 Hi. I apologize that this is not a question that it's, uh, um, 00:26:48.159 --> 00:26:51.426 specifically pertinent to your talk. Although I want to thank everyone for 00:26:51.459 --> 00:26:56.105 setting this up and all the presenters, It's been wonderful. I did miss 00:26:56.138 --> 00:27:00.815 yesterday, So perhaps this was answered yesterday. Um, for forty years, 00:27:00.848 --> 00:27:04.966 there has been a geologic colored geologic map of the eastern half of the 00:27:04.999 --> 00:27:09.035 Grand Canyon. Easily available up the books, shops and bookstores at the 00:27:09.068 --> 00:27:13.555 canyon. But there hasn't been a western, half a colored version of the 00:27:13.588 --> 00:27:17.265 Grand Canyon. Geologic maps, like teach geology, So color geologic maps. 00:27:17.298 --> 00:27:23.646 They're helpful. Do you know? Did I miss? Is there one available now was 00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:29.876 Oh, you're working on? 00:27:29.909 --> 00:27:35.495 Oh, okay. Thank you. I'm sorry I missed that. Thank you. 00:27:35.528 --> 00:27:39.595 And I'm sure Dr Carl calls from ask. Use my voice. I'm sure Dr Carl calls 00:27:39.628 --> 00:27:42.275 from will be happy to follow up with more details about that. But yes. 00:27:42.308 --> 00:27:46.476 During his presentation, hey spoke about ongoing mapping efforts and he 00:27:46.509 --> 00:27:49.876 did speak specifically about the nineteen eighty dragon map. That colorful 00:27:49.909 --> 00:27:53.295 blue map I think that you're referring to that is now unfortunately out of 00:27:53.328 --> 00:27:58.845 Prince partially, he explained to two one of the perennial dilemmas of 00:27:58.878 --> 00:28:03.595 paper maps. They're inherently unwieldy, their large the store. So that's 00:28:03.628 --> 00:28:07.406 part of the reason that I guess they're not so commercially viable. Any 00:28:07.439 --> 00:28:12.855 other questions will take one more. 00:28:12.888 --> 00:28:20.005 There's someone waving. Oh, Carl Churchill, you want You can catch this 00:28:20.038 --> 00:28:26.862 and do me a favor. Why don't you walk over here and, uh, you go? 00:28:26.895 --> 00:28:31.803 Hi. Um, I was way off in the corner, so maybe I didn't see. First of all, 00:28:31.836 --> 00:28:36.662 I love the less is more approach to cartography. Get that off my chest. Um 00:28:36.695 --> 00:28:41.753 , what sort of soft or you planning on using for those three D maps that 00:28:41.786 --> 00:28:46.392 you're hoping to put out? Um, I'm gonna actually put David on the spot for 00:28:46.425 --> 00:28:49.943 a second. David, do you remember what the company is that created that 00:28:49.976 --> 00:28:55.563 plug in? It's a plug in that goes into photo shop, by the way. 00:28:55.596 --> 00:28:59.922 Well, there you go. Three D map generator. 00:28:59.955 --> 00:29:05.463 You would think I would remember that. 00:29:05.496 --> 00:29:08.605 Thank you. Thank you very much.