Dinosaur National Monument News

Below is a news release from one of our long-time friends, Holiday River Expeditions.

Eons after hulking dinosaurs thundered around central Utah, a young paleontogist spent years on his belly teasing their fossilized bones from rock so he could help tell the world the story of life on Earth.

From the streets of Europe to the ancient graveyard of Utah's Dinosaur National Monument and the abandoned sugar mills of Hawaii to the banks of the Sacramento River, "Past & Present: 1970A 2009," the works of Geoff Fricker, is a photographic journey.

In attempting to piece together why Sabrina Bebb-Jones vanished from Grand Junction 12 years ago and how her skull subsequently ended up near a scrub oak tree on a western Colorado mountain pass, authorities never determined how she died.

Dr. Gary Machlis, the science advisor to National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, believes much needs to be done to bolster the Park Service's science mission.

Following a review of 77 controversial Utah gas leases, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has put a halt on eight of them, deferred 52 of them and is allowing 17 of them to go forward.

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to steer lucrative oil leases to Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company she works for now, officials with both departments confirmed to The Associated Press.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Salazar explains Utah lease decision to U.S. House panel At a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his agency put 77 leases in Utah on hold after determining that the Bureau of Land Management did not consult as required with the ...

Dayton Duncan was an impressionable 9-year-old when he made his first journey into the West's national parks.

In Vernal, - ... they're just so beautifully exposed for the public to see' AP Vernal, Utah, is home to a large dinosaur museum and is the base for a National Park Service site at a bone quarry that steel magnate Andrew Carnegie established in 1909.

Local legend has it that cowboys, sheep herders and trappers long knew about the huge fossilized bones that regularly surfaced from the ancient rock underlying Utah's dinosaur country.

State parks aren't just for hiking, camping and other recreation anymore. Increasingly, these lands are being used for oil and gas drilling as budget-strapped states seek new sources of revenue.

Ita s been 100 years since paleontologist Earl Douglass discovered 160 million-year-old bones in Dinosaur National Monumenta s fossil quarry.

Ita s been 100 years since paleontologist Earl Douglass discovered 160 million-year-old bones in Dinosaur National Monumenta s fossil quarry.

Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.

Almost no list is complete. So when I read Doug Cornelius's post on 100 Geeky Places to Take Your Kids This Summer , I immediately started making a list of additional spots.

Wayne Prokopetz, Chief of Research and Resource Management at Dinosaur National Monument, points out some of the structural problems that resulted in the closing of the monument's quarry visitor's center.

Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the Utah-Colorado border.

Tracks have been discovered of small rat-like creatures who ran over dunes in Utah 190 million years ago, paleontologists said.

Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.