Around 1100 CE—a good 400 years before Spanish conquistadors would first glimpse the Grand Canyon—Ancestral Puebloans tended terrace farms along the banks of the Colorado River. In order to store their crops during the rainy season, when floods might destroy food stores, and to keep animals from eating the harvest, they created the Nankoweap Granaries high up in the canyon walls.
Ancient storage in the Grand Canyon
Today in History
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Hot and Spicy Food Day
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Mute swans
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Celebrating 78 years of Everglades National Park
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Alaska moose
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Presidents Day
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Carnival of Venice
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A dying breed of tree thrives in an American park
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Whale hello there!
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Back on the rise
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Don’t look down
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Pretty poetic for a pit
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Happy Easter!
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Château de Sully-sur-Loire, Center-Val de Loire, France
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The globe skimmers return
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Teacher Appreciation Day
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Don t go chasing waterfalls
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To the 155th on the 155th
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Dark Sky Week
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Visiting Ahch-To on Star Wars Day
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Happy Mother’s Day
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Wooden path to Kennedy Lake, Vancouver Island, Canada
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Scotts Bluff National Monument, Gering, Nebraska
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Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California
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Darwin s Arch
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Kirkilai lakes, Biržai Regional Park, Lithuania
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Redwood National and State Parks, California
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International Day of Forests
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Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany
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Palouse farmland, Washington state
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All eyes on sustainability
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