The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc.

This month you can read all about how Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument’s new exhibits were designed and produced in the free Harper’s Ferry Center (HFC) newsletter, HFC on Media. HFC provides exhibit design services and other interpretive support to units throughout the National Park Service. They are currently involved in design for a new […]

The Fall 2007 newsletter has just gone to the printer. Highlights include

Friends 20th Anniversary Celebration
Fagopsis longifolia, a fossil of an extinct beech relative
Paleontology news from the park
An interview with Dr. Richard Beidleman, Professor Emeritus at Colorado College, on T.D.A. Cockerell
Memories of Crystal Peak from a former intern
An article by Arthur Lakes from 1895 about the […]

Join rangers at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument to learn about, listen for, and hopefully see wapiti (American elk). The eerie bugling of elk in rut is a common sound at the park during the fall mating season, and you are sure to see signs of elk like scat and chewed bark on aspens. […]

The Colorado Springs Gazette’s R. Scott Rappold wrote an article about Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument’s need for a new Visitor Center–read it in the September 4 Gazette.
One important point not covered in the article is that a new Visitor Center with a larger collections area will also give the park’s paleontology division room for […]