The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | July 29, 2008
The July August issue of The Interpreter, a magazine for professional and volunteer interpretive educators, features as its cover story an article by Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Volunteer Interpretive Specialist Heidi Bailey called “Are Your Stories Lost in Space? Interpret the Geography of a Place.”
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | May 25, 2008
The last of the new Visitor Center exhibits at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument have been installed. They include a diagram of a stratigraphic column showing the different types of rocks in the park, touchable samples of rock and fossil wood, and an changing board showcasing currently research at the park and partnership projects like [...]
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. | January 30, 2008
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument‘s scientific database is back up at planning.nps.gov/flfo/. Web users can search for important Florissant specimens in museum collections around the world and view associated data and photographs. The park has received a Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (CESU) grant, in conjunction with the University of Colorado at Boulder, to update and [...]
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.
