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| Dal DeWeese — land developer, big game hunter, buddy of Teddy Roosevelt — helps to excavate a Diplodocus longus skeleton in Garden Park Fossil Area in 1902. I never heard that DeWeese was that big on dinos, so maybe this was a staged photo — look at how he is dressed. (Photo from BLM.) |
People at the Bureau of Land Management office in Cañon City are happy about an official decision to expand the
National Natural Landmark status of the famous fossil beds on BLM land north of town, the Garden Park Fossil Area.
The internationally renowned area boasts rich deposits of late
Jurassic-period fossils. In the 1880s, fifteen species of dinosaurs,
nine of which were new to the field of paleontology, were recovered from
the area, making it one of the oldest and richest fossil sites in the
country.
More history and old photos are linked here. Go visit now, before the weather gets too hot.
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