Museum of Northern Arizona Ventures Program: Educational Tours of the Southwest
 
Hotel-based trips to Colorado Plateau destinationsHiking trips with base camp support to Colorado Plateau destinationsWilderness trips in the SouthwestDay trips to Hopi and other Southwest destinationsCustom educational tours in the Southwest
 
 
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Stewart Aitchison

Stewart AitchisonStewart Aitchison is a zoologist and geologist by training and a naturalist and photographer by passion. He has been exploring, photographing, teaching, and writing about the Colorado Plateau for more than forty years, ten of those as a field biologist for the Museum of Northern Arizona. Besides leading trips for Lindblad Expeditions, he also escorts educational excursions for National Audubon Society, Smithsonian, National Geographic Expeditions, Elderhostel, Grand Canyon Field Institute, and other educational groups across the globe from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from the American West to Europe.

Some of his latest publications include: The Desert Islands of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez; Grand Canyon’s North Rim and Beyond; Grand Canyon: Window of Time; A Traveler’s Guide to Monument Valley; and A Guide to Southern Utah’s Hole-in-the-Rock Trail. A complete list of his books and selection of images can be found at www.stewartaitchison.com.

His photos have been published in Arizona Highways; Los Angeles Times; Mountain Bike Magazine; National Wildlife; Nevada Magazine; National Geographic Society Books; Outdoor & Travel Photography; Orion; Paddler; Plateau; Reader's Digest; Sierra; Southwest Parks and Monuments; Utah Geographic; and Wilderness. He has a photography blog at www.stewartaitchison.blogspot.com .

 

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