National Park Zine: Canyonlands: Canyons, Mesas, and Buttes

Canyonlands is a park of immense size: some 525 square miles of dry, harsh, land of rock and sand, sparsely covered by sagebrush, junipers, and pinyon pine. It is a land of tangled canyons, gorges, and gullies, cut by the flow of water working its way to the Green and Colorado Rivers. The Green and Colorado Rivers themselves are deeply entrenched in the land. Both are mighty rivers that join forces to transport water and sediments to the Pacific Ocean. The photographs in this issue give the reader an appreciation for the enormous size of this park and the forces of nature that formed it. It truly is a land of canyons.