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This week's Ask a Ranger column.

The National Park Service said as of Wednesday morning, the visitor center remained unharmed as active fires continue to burn nearby.

When most of us consider the existence of volcanic activity in the U.S., we naturally think about the Pacific Northwest and the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens. But while the Southwest hasn’t seen anything close to that kind of event in our lifetimes, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon were areas that experienced eruptions many centuries ago.

A collection of the interesting — and sometimes unusual — events that happened this week in Arizona history.May 23On this date in 1868, Col. Christopher “Kit” Carson, who directed the campaign against the Navajos which resulted in their surrender and the exile of about half the tribe to Fort Sumner between 1864 and 1868, died at Fort Lyon, Colorado., just nine days before the

Hopi, Navajo and Zuni in U.S. Southwest   We will explore and interact with Native American people in the Southwest, including the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni. We'll travel with Astrological Anthropologist, Jerry Snow and learn from Native experts/guides about their cultures' unique histories, belief systems, spiritual worldviews, art-mythologies, tribal laws, customs and domestic life. We'll spend three days camping on a Navajo ranch and doing service work; other service work will be scheduled with sc...