The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc.

The ancestors of these modern marine diatoms coexisted with the dinosaurs. Photo Credit: Dr. Neil Sullivan, University of Southern California/NOAA
University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student Mary Ellen Benson, M.S., gave a talk about her doctoral research at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) on February 7.
Benson’s talk, titled “Exceptional Diversity of […]

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is beginning a long term oral history project. The project will use nearly $800.00 of professional audio recording equipment purchased by the Friends of the Florissant Fossils Beds.
The goal of this project is to record the stories related to the different aspects of the Monument’s history, which may include Native […]

Lots of events for this spring and summer posted are to the calendar.
Highlights:
February 17 - “Fossils! Florissant’s Claim to Fame” Chautauqua sponsored by the Pikes Peak Historical Society
March 15 - Open House at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, with morning hike led by the Friends
April 25-28 - CAEE Teaching OUTSIDE the Box Conference
July 26 - […]

Read former Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument intern J.J. Huie’s full article in the Spring 2008 Friends newsletter!

With Deep Roots in Colorado: The Ponderosa Pine
by J.J. Huie
I like running in Colorado when the sound of my breathing is drowned out by a wind so violent it causes the arms of the ponderosa pines (Pinus ponderosa) […]

Last summer, teacher Greg Spalding led the effort to revise Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument’s Junior Ranger Program. Spalding received a Junior Ranger Ambassador grant, and after a week of training in Washington, D.C., he worked with Lead Interpretive Ranger Jeff Wolin to redesign the park’s Junior Ranger activity book.
Spalding also organized the Monument’s first […]