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Abstract: This factual traveler's field guide features nearly ninety national parks and national monuments, state parks and tribal parks, and archeological ruins. In effect, the text provides an informative travelogue for the reader who desires to know and learn more about the scenic icons of the Colorado Plateau Province, other than the scenery. Moreover, the information about each destination explains everything in a straightforward manner, focusing on geology, natural and human history, as well as contact information, driving directions, and geographic particulars. Where applicable, supplemental details for some destinations are also included. For instance, hiking trails, germane topics such as archaeoastronomy, paleontology, and ethnobotany, as well as lionized movies filmed throughout the Four Corners region. An added convenience for the reader is how each destination's presentation entails the most essential to more detailed particulars. Hence, a graduating text of information where one chooses how much or how little subject matter to peruse. Like an A to Z encyclopedia, Southwest Scenic Destinations can be read cover-to-cover or piecemeal. Bitly URL's are embedded in all destinations for readers having access to the Internet. These seven-digit codes correlate to Google images, graphics, charts and illustrations presented in every destination. Additionally, there are six addenda of subject matter whose subject matter is more specialized. As a retired educator and instructor for the likes of the Grand Canyon Field Institute, most of what I did for a living for some forty years entailed teaching various geosciences, natural and human history, environmental sciences, zoology, mathematics, and assorted published writings. (491 pages, 8.5 x 11 format) For more information, go to the Amazon site and click on the synopsis; other details are presented on the author's website: www.richholtzin.com

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The author writes and publishes under the nom de plume, RK ALLEMAN because the name more accurately describes his heritage. After being Honorably Discharged from the Navy (submarine service), he has lived in the West and Southwest for over four decades. Earning three academic degrees in Eastern and Western Philosophy, for nearly 30 years RK (as RICH HOLTZIN, his legal name) made a living as an outdoors educator and interpreter teaching a variety of geosciences, human, and natural history geared to the Colorado Plateau Province. Additionally, RK was a professional studio and stage musician and taught guitar and music theory, including composing two soundtracks for the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Parks; a high school Educational Assistant and Substitute Teacher; a commercial pilot flying a variety of aircraft; a professional photographer; a GPS surveyor and topographical mapper for the U. S. Forest Service; a planetarium control room operator; a museum docent; and the Coconino County Sheriff's Office. What RK is more enthused about, however, is serving in the role of an interpretive guide and educator for the Grand Canyon Field Institute (a National Park Service endorsed outreach program (http: //bit.ly/1D6YS1u). He was also an instructor at Northern Arizona University and Yavapai College (respectively, Flagstaff and Prescott), as well as the owner of a Southwest eco and cultural tourism enterprise. Fairly recently, he became the Executive Director of a think tank in Albuquerque, based on astronautics and aerospace S.T.E.M. classroom projects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), including the co-author of a math-lab book based on rocketry. (www.stemfortheclassroom.com) For more of RICH HOLTZIN'S backstory, peruse his website under his legal name: www.richholtzin.com

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