I hope that you can read the text in these photos, it’s tough to get good photos of this subject.
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Info Boards At The Fossil Fields
I never have been in fossil fields. I have to google do we have them close where I live.
Inspiring post, John!
That’s how we discover a lot about history of life on earth.
And it’s so amazing too, isn’t it.
You did well
Thanks again, Derrick! Imagine what Earth looked like 100,000 years ago here!
I remember reading a couple of papers detailing some of the work done in the late 1960’s at the Tule beds. What a great site, and glad it is now a protected site. Your photos of the boards are fine.
Thank you on those boards! I would love to see the actual sites they excavated. I may not have the health to see (walk to) them but oh well. There is something a bit odd about the desert floor in front of you, it’s not entirely like the other areas with Yucca and Creosote bushes. The colors are a little different.
Wouldn’t that be something, to discover the bones of some animal like a saber-toothed cat or the animal it was chasing.
So amazing! I would love to see the full collection of what these people have found since the 1960s when they began excavations in that area. The west coast down here was a shallow sea 200 millions years ago, then the plates collided and raised the mountains which brought these animals to this are 100,000 years ago, so amazing!
Probably still lots to discover too.
I hope so, but I suspect that the funds and more may make this difficult, just a guess. It’s great that this huge area is now protected legally. I don’t think that Durango Drive will be paved any further north from this place!
I was surprised this afternoon though when pulling into the parking area to see a mid-size motor home and a pickup truck with a camper in the bed there looking as though they had been there camping overnight. I am 100% sure that Metro would have told them to hit the road.
These days it’s not even safe to boondock like that. Best to stay in an RV park and pay the money. It’s worth it.
I agree, any nutjob could come up to your rig while your sleeping and make your like miserable, too scary for me!