The Six Corners Podcast Matt Linton & The Utah Office of Tourism

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 away from the genre of what people called Native American or Indigenous art, where the colors are earth tones...

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://www.friendsofcedarmesa.orghttps://twinrocks.comhttp://utahscanyoncountry.com/ “You have t...

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, we extract a lot from the landscape, and if we aren’t willing to put more back than we take, that is when trouble h...

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 access. The ability to go places that are truly public. I realized they were completely open and belonged to us. I...

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.com/