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Be sure to check out the Museum Management Program for National Park Service. There are great exhibits, collections, and Treasures of the Nation.

Learn more about Petrified Forest National Park by exploring scenic photo galleries and viewing short videos of park rangers describing features found at the park.

Wilderness (interactive slide show)
Wilderness (PDF slide show 2.3MB)

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The following videos require QuickTime to view.

Ranger Marge Post discusses:

• the badlands that make up the Painted Desert.
  QuickTime movie (8.31MB), 1 minute 34 seconds
• how water shaped the landscape through deposition of sediments during the Triassic and how water shapes the landscape of today through erosion
  QuickTime movie 1:14 (7.24MB) 
• why the petrified logs look like someone started cutting them up for firewood
  QuickTime movie 1:22 (8.05MB)
• how the Bidahochi Formation was created and the resulting unconformity between it and the Chinle Formation
  QuickTime movie 1:43 (10.1MB)

Ranger Hallie Larsen discusses:

• how science is dynamic, changing over time
  QuickTime movie 1:39 (9.77MB)

Ranger Janet Fernandes discusses:

• badlands and their formation through the power of erosion
  QuickTime movie 1:29 (8.71MB)

Ranger Rita Garcia discusses:

• erosion and the stories it reveals as fossils come to the surface
  QuickTime movie 0:52 (5.14MB)
• windows of time between the petrified forest, the ancestral Puebloan people, and today
  QuickTime movie 0:51 (5.04MB)