The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 19, 2008
The ancestors of these modern marine diatoms coexisted with the dinosaurs. Photo Credit: Prof. Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University, USA 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 [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 15, 2008
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 [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 12, 2008
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 [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 10, 2008
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 [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 3, 2008
New Books at Monument Bookstore The Rocky Mountain Nature Association (RMNA) is the concessionaire for the bookstore at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. People step in the front door of the visitor center many times just to buy books. The books and many other items are chosen carefully by Jo Beckwith, the manager for RMNA. [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Friends of the Park group supporting Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in its mission to protect and interpret the park's resources for future generations.
