The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | October 19, 2008
Despite over 120 years of fossil discoveries, the Florissant Fossil Beds are still producing new discoveries. A new genus and species of fossil mole has been described from Florissant, published in September 2007 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. Karen Lloyd, who graduated in 2007 from the University of Colorado with an M.S. in Museum and Field [...]
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. | October 9, 2007
It’s hard to forget the eerie sound of an American bull elk bugling–the sound is almost completely unlike a bugle, but rather a high, unearthly wail. Elk bugling is a common sound at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in the fall, when elk rut (seek mates). American elk (Cervus canadensis*), which once numbered 10 million [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | August 21, 2007
Mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus) is a small genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees, currently placed in the rose family (not closely related to true mahoganies, in the Meliaceae family). In addition to growing throughout the Rocky Mountain region today, mountain mahogany is a relatively common Tertiary (65 to 1.8 million years ago, the time between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the first Ice Age) fossil found in the Florissant and Antero Formations, as well as at Creede, Webber Lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, the Desert Peak Formation of Nevada, Oligocene sediments in Mexico, and many other localities.
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | August 16, 2007
Park staff, particularly Student Conservation Association interpretive intern Lindsey Stecker (Boston University) and Chief Ranger Rick Wilson, have been working hard to control the spread of sweetclover this summer.
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.
