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Bighorn Basin GeoScience
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Art by Wyoming Artists Our Board of Directors Chairman of the Board Cliff Manuel, Museum Director Vice Chairman John Coyne, Jr., Chairman & CEO Big Horn Federal S&L Secretary & Treasurer M. Scott McColloch, Attorney at Law Member John Ed Anderson, Owner, Red Canyon Ranch Member Bruce Bergstrom, CPA Member Ron Fiene, Owner Rons Food Farm Member Rick Magstadt, V. P. Manufacturing WYO-BEN, INC. Member Dr. Randy E. Waddell, Optometrist Science Team 2012 Erik. P. Kvale, Ph.D. Senior Geologist, Devon Energy M. K. Brett-Surman, Ph.D. Museum Specialist, National Museum of Natural Histoory Kim Sowder, GISP Devon Energy Robert & Tina King Master Teachers Other Team Members James Farlow, Ph.D. Professor of Geology, Indiana/Purdue University, Fort Wayne Jack Beuthin, Ph.D. Senior Geologist, Devon Energy |
The
Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center is an approved non-profit, tax-exempt
501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the study, conservation & appropriate display
of the northern Bighorn Basin’s natural resources, and to the promotion of geoscience and local historical and educational
activities, through exhibits and educational materials for educators,
geoscientists, tourists and the people of Wyoming. Primary
Goals 1. Establish a permanent facility in the
Bighorn Basin of Wyoming that will serve as a museum and interpretive center
for the area's natural resources, and featuring the major fossil discoveries
from this part of Wyoming. 2. Provide a repository for type specimens,
especially unique scientifically valuable fossils from the northern part of
the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. 3. Educate and inspire the public with an
understanding and appreciation for the significant scientific and historical
values of fossil specimens. Our
Situation The northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming contains extensively
documented fossil deposits dating 550 million years ago (Cambrian Period) to
the present. These include world famous localities with extensive fossil
deposits that contain dinosaur bones, eggshells and trackways, as well as
primitive mammal fossils. These deposits are located on privately held land
as well as on state and federal land. Major fossil
discoveries have been, and are currently being, collected and removed from
this part of the Professional scientists, including world famous geologists,
paleontologists and anthropologists, have conducted research activities in
this area for over 100 years. These research activities are only loosely
coordinated among entities, and thus the rich natural resources of the area
remain relatively unknown to the people of Wyoming. More importantly, the
relationship of these resources and the Bighorn Basin remains disconnected in
the minds of the world. The Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center will include comprehensive
displays which describe and explain the paleogeolographic
history of the basin and will feature major fossil discoveries from the
Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, displayed in the context of the environment that
was prevalent in the timeframe the animals existed. The
planned Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center is located in Greybull, Wyoming,
approximately halfway between the Black Hills of South Dakota and the east
entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It is situated in the midst of some of
the most significant and impressive fossil-bearing deposits in This website will be updated periodically to reflect progress
and describe how you and other interested visitors to this site can be active
participants and support this endeavor. CONTACTS Cliff Manuel, Museum Director 537 Greybull Avenue Greybull, WY 82426 Phone: (307) 765-2286 or or (888) 224-3590 toll free Email: cliff@bbgeoscience.org Julie Bilbrey 537 Greybull Avenue Greybull, WY 82426 Phone: (307) 765-9319 Email: julie@bbgeoscience.org
Copyright
© 2010, 2011, 2012
Bighorn Basin Geoscience Center. All rights reserved
(except for images and text as noted) Last
updated: February 15, 2012 Bighorn Basin GeoScience
Center ~ 537 Greybull Avenue ~
Greybull, Wyoming 82426 Web site maintenance
by: Cliff Manuel |
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