Topic: Grand Canyon

Dodging the Roadkill: 2020 Vision

By Hank Bonecutter | January 3, 2020 |

Clarksville, TN – So, here we are.  new year, new decade, new beginnings.  What’s next? 

I think a lot of us ask that same question. 

Resolutions?  I don’t make them, because I can’t seem to keep them.  I would guess you might be the same. 

We all need to be better than we were yesterday, so moving forward, I just try to take it one day at a time.  The older I get, the more I realize that if I just get the most out of each day, treating people better than before, pushing myself a little more, and motivating myself to step up my game, then it wears off on the ones I love and the people I meet.

Hank Bonecutter

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Lamar Alexander: Senate Committee Approves “Restore Our Parks Act”, Biggest Boost to National Parks in 50 Years

November 19, 2019 |

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said a bill he sponsored, along with three of his colleagues, to reduce the maintenance backlog at our nation’s 419 national parks, including the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is “one step closer to becoming law.” 

“This legislation could do more to restore our national parks than anything that has happened in the last half century, and the reason we need to restore them is so Americans can enjoy the 419 sites – from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the Grand Canyon – for generations to come,” Senator Alexander said. 

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Austin Peay State University students tour the West during Spring Break with Govs Outdoors

March 12, 2019 |

Austin Peay State University (APSU)

Clarksville, TN – Eight Austin Peay-based students traveled west with Govs Outdoors during Spring Break, taking in sights such as the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest National Park, the Devil’s Bridge and Cathedral Rock trails in Arizona, the Santa Rosa Blue Hole in New Mexico and the Cadillac Ranch in Texas.

Austin Peay State University students who went on the Grand Canyon trip were, from the left, Cody Bricker, Rebecca Thomack, Anaelle Maudet, Annabelle Spencer, Goodwin Brown, Alex Arriaga (on sign), Gwynevere Cardinal and Luis Soto.

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Austin Peay State University Govs Outdoors offers affordable trips to campus, community

February 13, 2019 |

Austin Peay State University (APSU) 

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s (APSU) Govs Outdoors, a program through University Recreation, offers about 10 trips every semester to members of the Foy Fitness & Recreation Center, including Austin Peay students, faculty and staff and members of the surrounding community.

Olivia Salamy, Austin Peay Govs Outdoors trip leader, led a trip in December to Indian Grave Point Caves near Lebanon, Tennessee.

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#7 Tennessee Lady Vols travel to California to face Long Beach State

December 16, 2017 |

#7 Tennessee at Long Beach State

December 17th, 2017 | 4:00pm CT
Long Beach, CA | Walter Pyramid

Knoxville, TN – No. 7/7 Tennessee (10-0) is in the midst of an eight-day West Coast trip, beginning with a Sunday contest vs. Long Beach State (2-7) at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA. Tip time is slated for 2:00pm PT (4:00pm CT).

The Lady Vols returned to the top 10 in both the AP and USA TODAY Coaches Polls this week, rising to No. 7/7 from No. 11/13 last week after knocking off No. 2/4 Texas last Sunday in Knoxville, 82-75.

The Big Orange women are back in the top 10 for the first time since the third poll of the 2015-16 season, when the Lady Vols were rated No. 4/5 on November 23rd. The triumph over Texas was Tennessee’s seventh at home this season and ninth in a row at Thompson-Boling Arena after closing out the 2016-17 with a pair of victories on the Summitt.

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Austin Peay State University Men’s Golf to play in Sacramento State Invitational

March 5, 2017 |

APSU Sports Information

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University men’s golf will give the West Coast a try this week, as the Govs kick off their spring break week at the Sacramento State Invitational at Valley Hi Country Club in Sacramento.

The 7,010-yard Par-72 track is site to Austin Peay’s first venture west of the Rocky Mountains since the 2012 NCAA Regional in Tempe, Arizona.

the Sacramento State Invitational at Valley Hi Country Club in Sacramento

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NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft finds Great Valley on Mercury

November 17, 2016 |

NASA

Washington, D.C. – A newly discovered “great valley” in the southern hemisphere of Mercury provides more evidence that the small planet closest to the sun is shrinking.

Scientists used stereo images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft to create a high-resolution topo map that revealed the broad valley — more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) long — extending into the Rembrandt basin, one of the largest and youngest impact basins on Mercury. About 250 miles (400 kilometers) wide and 2 miles (3 kilometers) deep, Mercury’s great valley is smaller than Mars’ Valles Marineris, but larger than North America’s Grand Canyon and wider and deeper than the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.

Using colorized topography, Mercury’s “great valley” (dark blue) and Rembrandt impact basin (purple, upper right) are revealed in this high-resolution digital elevation model merged with an image mosaic obtained by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.(NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/DLR/Smithsonian Institution)

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looks at Pluto’s Ice Plains

June 12, 2016 |

NASA Headquarters

Washington, D.C. – This enhanced color view from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto’s great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula. (Krun is the lord of the underworld in the Mandaean religion, and a ‘macula’ is a dark feature on a planetary surface.)

Pluto is believed to get its dark red color from tholins, complex molecules found across much of the surface. Krun Macula rises 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) above the surrounding plain – informally named Sputnik Planum – and is scarred by clusters of connected, roughly circular pits that typically reach between 5 and 8 miles (8 and 13 kilometers) across, and up to 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) deep.

This dramatic image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows the dark, rugged highlands known as Krun Macula (lower right), which border a section of Pluto’s icy plains. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)

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Austin Peay State University Governors Golf play in Mission Inn Spring Spectacular this weekend

March 13, 2015 |

APSU Sports Information

Howey- In-The-Hills, FL – After a three-week period of practicing and qualifying, Austin Peay State University men’s golf team will return to competition for the second time this spring when it participates in the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular, to be played Saturday and Sunday on the par 72, 6,884-yard El Campeón Course at the historic Mission Inn Resort and Spa.

Austin Peay Men’s Golf travels to Florida for Mission Inn Spring Spectacular. (APSU Sports Information)

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Austin Peay State University Women’s Basketball take on Belmont Bruins Thursday at Dunn Center

January 14, 2015 |

Austin Peay (5-11/201) vs. Belmont (4-13/1-3)

Thursday, January 15th, 2014 | 5:15pm CT
Clarksville, TN | Dunn Center

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay women’s basketball team will play in the Dunn Center for the first time in a month when it hosts Belmont in a 5:15 pm, Thursday, Ohio Valley Conference contest. Thursday’s game will start a quick three-game, five-day homestand for the Lady Govs.

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