2019 Field Report – August 11th, 2019
The 2019 season was a lot of fun! Old friends returning and new friends made. Teams focused their efforts on excavating the remains of stegosaurs, allosaur and sauropods large and small. We also discovered new sites! One new site near quarry 3 has started producing stegosaur material and another quarry is showing some diplodocid and Allosaur bones. The Kudos everyone!
After doing these dig programs for a quarter of a century one cannot help but think about the people you meet and the friends you make. The 2019 field season was made wonderfully possible by many of those people. To my dear friends and hosts for 16 summer’s Dave and Rosalie, thank you for sharing such a beautiful place. My friends in many geologic adventures Mark, Debbie, Jim, Mitch, Shawna and Janet , thanks for being there for me. You guys keep it all going. For 17 years Rodney has been there to take on any earth moving project we’ve needed. Thank you too my friend. To my interns Cat, Colin and Jessica a big thank you too you! Too Bob and Barb, thanks for giving your prehistoric programs. They were entertaining and very educational.
Finally I want to thank all of the 2019 team members that traveled from all points to have a chance at discovery with us. I hope that you went away a little more knowledgeable and having even more questions. Hope to see you again.
What’s Up for 2020?
During week 2 we started a new site on a hillside near quarry 3. We’ll continue that excavation in 2020 to see what it will give up. We will also expand the sauropod/allosaur site and others. A couple of new sites were discovered this summer that need some work done on them also.
“Fossil hunting is by far the most fascinating of all sports, the hunter will never knows what his bag will be, perhaps nothing, perhaps a creature never before seen by human eyes! The fossil hunter does not kill, he resurrects. And the result of his sport is to add to the sum of human pleasure and the treasures of human knowledge”.
George Gaylord Simpson – paleontologist circa 1934.