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Our Guides
Walk Softly Tours is
proud to be able to provide you with guides whose education and experience will give you
one of the most comprehensive tours possible in the American Southwest
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Thomas S. Tucker, Naturalist
MBA, Southern Oregon State College, 1975BS Business, Southern Oregon State
College, 1970
Mr. Tucker, a fourth generation Arizona native, began conducting tours of
the Sonoran Desert in 1992.
He has made a life study of the Sonoran Desert and since 1989, has
extensively researched the desert biosystems, geology, ancient history and
archaeology.
He is presently conducting field studies in botanical adaptations
and producing video conferencing seminars for K-12 and college level courses
on deserts, archaeology and geology.
In 1995 he co-founded Rattlesnake Roundup, Inc., a desert tour
company.
In 1996 he co-founded Walk Softly Tours, an ecotour (nature tour)
company.
He presently serves as Vice President and General Manager of Walk Softly Tours.
As a staff naturalist, he conducts back country ecotours oft the American west.
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Anne Swetish, Historian
AA Western Michigan University, Spanish, 1965
In Arizona 40 years. Took an active interest in the Sonoran Desert, becoming a tour guide
and conducting extensive research on the various ecosystems of the desert and on the
historical role of women in the West. She then moved into the areas of ethnobotany and
anthropology. She conducts eco and cultural tours of the American Southwest.
Ann is a co-fonder and president of Walk Softly Tours.
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Ken Sweat,
Ecologist
PhD, Botany, Arizona State University, 2010
MS, Botany, Arizona State University, 1995
BA, Biology, Mathematics, Claremont McKenna, 1990
Mr. Sweat is an Arizona native and a field biologist and is faculty at
Arizona State University. Emphasis
in his Masters program was on desert ecology.
He has done extensive field work in the areas fire ecology, desert
tortoise and spotted owl populations and relocations.
He has also worked as a laboratory technician in the medical
research industry. He has conducted desert nature tours for the past 15
years and co-founded Walk Softly Tours in 1996.
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Lance
Polingyouma, Archaeologist
BS Anthropology, University of Massachusetts
Graduate studies, Archaeology, Arizona State University
Lance is the director of the Hopi Learning center in Scottsdale, Arizona,
the organizer of Lacrosse in high schools in Maricopa County and an
archaeological and Indian cultures guide for Walk Softly Tours.
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Will Tsosie
BS Business, University of New Mexico
MS Paleoanthropology, UNM, Farmington
Will is a native of the Navajo reservation, an anthropologist, story teller,
singer and flute player. He guides for Walk Softly Tours while on the
reservation, taking us to places seldom seen by non Navajo's. His
cultural interpretations of the Navajo life and his perspective on life in
general from the Navajo point of view are priceless.
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Walk Softly Tours has recruited Native American
guides and members of the natural sciences community for assisting in the guiding of
tours. This gives Walk Softly the capacity for not only ecotours, but for scientific
research tours as well. |
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