Have you taken some great photos of
- Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
- Summer seminars
- Special events at the park
- Local wildlife and flora?
We’d love to feature your photos on the Friends website or in the newsletter! You can email your digital photos to Melissa Barton at webmaster@fossilbeds.org, or contact her to arrange to mail prints for scanning (prints will be returned) or a CD-ROM.
You will be given full credit for your photography, and this is an easy way to contribute to the Friends! We are particularly in need of photographs from this year’s summer seminar series.
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 Florissant petrified forest
- More Friends history questions (and answers to last issue’s questions)
- And more news and articles
The Friends Newsletter has changed a lot since the first issue of Volume 1 in 1990: from a bimonthly 1-2 page schedule of park events with one feature article, the newsletter has grown to a substantial quarterly publication (the last issue weighed in at 15 pages; this one at 18) full of news about the park and illustrated feature articles on history and science. Anyone can contribute photographs or articles–you can use your talents to help make future newsletters informative and exciting (guidelines).
-Melissa Barton
We’ve added a new feature for those who want to be notified of website updates by email. You can receive a daily notification of updates to the Friends website with summaries and links to full articles by signing up for the RSS feed by email (you can also use your web browser or another RSS reader to monitor the site by going to http://www.fossilbeds.org/rss).
You will not receive advertisements or spam, and your email address will not be shared. You can unsubscribe at any time. The sign-up box will be permanently located in the sidebar to the right. Don’t miss another article!
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Friends of the Park group supporting