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	Dinosaur National Monument (Colorado) - Lands at Risk - Wildlands - Sierra Club
		The 210,000-acre monument was designated in 1915 to protect a dinosaur fossil quarry, and was expanded years later to include nearby plateaus and canyons.
		"Dinosaur National Monument is one example of the many beautiful places in Colorado that provide unique visitor experiences and recreational opportunities and generate economic revenue for the state and help preserve our high quality of life,” says Adriana Raudzens with the Sierra Club in Colorado.
		Dinosaur National Monument could also fall victim to the blight of oil and gas rigs near the heart of the fossil preserve.
	www.sierraclub.org /wildlands/wildlandsatrisk/dinosaur.asp (474 words)

	Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado
		One of Colorado’s most unusual museums consists of a road sliced through a mountain where dinosaur footprints, bones and fossils of prehistoric insects or plants are etched by nature into the scraped rock walls.
		We can tell what family dinosaurs were part of, based on the size, but it’s like saying you can tell the breed by a dog’s prints." Perhaps that’s the mystique of dinosaurs to the children who stare wide-eyed at the mother and baby footprints.
		As children scamper from dinosaur footprint to footprint, it’s a reminder that the youngest of Earth’s creatures remain spellbound glimpsing hints left behind by the oldest.
	www.frontrangeliving.com /outdoors/DinosaurRidge.htm (994 words)

	Dakota Hogback
		Dakota Hogback from the crest of Dinosaur Ridge
		Dinosaur footprint sags: The 4th and 5th frames show fractured depressions in sandy upper Morrison Formation strata thought to be sauropod (long-necked leaf-eating dinosaur) footprints in cross-section.
		Dakota dinosaur crossing: The famous criss-crossing dinosaur trackways of Dinosaur Ridge are exposed on the east flank of the Dakota Hogback.
	www.cliffshade.com /colorado/dakota_hogback (7304 words)

	Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance:
		Designation of the Greater Dinosaur wilderness units will ensure that the wild nature of flagship units of the National Park System, such as Dinosaur, is not lost amidst clutter and development on their boundaries.
		The Colorado Division of Wildlife owns a large amount of land on the crest of the mountain, along the boundary of the proposed wilderness.
		Hunting is a boon to the regional economy of northwest Colorado and northeast Utah.
	www.suwa.org /site/PageServer?pagename=WATE_gdinosaur (2767 words)

	Dinosaur Colorado Resource Guide, City or community of Dinosaur, Colorado Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
		The population of Dinosaur is approximately 324 (1990).
		Dinosaur is positioned 40.24 degrees north of the equator and 109.00 degrees west of the prime meridian.
		Dinosaur also has an Annual "Bedrock Days" a sort of city festival complete with Tractor and Car Shows, a Live Band to play during all two or three days of which the festival goes on.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /cocountydinosaur.htm (317 words)

	Dinosaur Museums from America's Best and Top 10
		Dinosaur National Monument is on the boarders of Utah and Colorado.
		Many people think that dinosaurs were big horrible lizards because some of the first dinosaur fossils ever found were huge bones and teeth, very lizard-like except for their size, and so the idea of monstrous lizards was born.
		Dinosaur Journey is located in Fruita, Colorado and is in the heart of dinosaur country.
	www.americasbestonline.net /Dinosaurs.html (1051 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado/Utah (part 3 of 3)
		In the 1950s, Dinosaur was at the center of a bitter controversy concerning public land management and water development in the West--arguably the greatest environmental battle in the history of the United States.
		Although Dinosaur National Monument is free of mines, dams, fire suppression (the park adheres to a natural fire management program), and heavy grazing, certain land uses outside the park exact a toll on the park's resources.
		In addition, variable releases from the Flaming Gorge Dam, north of Dinosaur, adversely affect the riparian dynamics, aquatic ecology and recreational use of the monument's stretch of the Green River.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~luhna/Places/dinosaur3.htm (572 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado/Utah (part 1 of 3)
		Dinosaur National Monument is located in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah near the northern edge of the Colorado Plateau [Map].
		The Yampa River, the last free-flowing river in the Colorado River system, joins the Green River in the monument at Echo Park, named by explorer John Wesley Powell in 1869 during his first scientific expedition on the Colorado Plateau.
		The quarry preserves the fossilized remains of countless dinosaurs, reptiles and amphibians that were grounded in the mud 120 million years ago.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~luhna/Places/dinosaur1.htm (456 words)

	Dinosaur - Conservapedia
		In the 1970, Robert Bakker catalyzed a new era of dinosaur paleontology with evidence that dinosaurs were fully warm-blooded (endotherms) and fast-moving.
		As a number of feathered fossils (claimed to be dinosaurs) have been discovered, and evolutionary scientists claim the similarity in the bone structure between birds and dinosaurs show that modern birds are a descendants of dinosaurs.
		Evolutionists point out that radiometric dating of rocks containing dinosaur bones shows them to have formed between 65 million years ago and 250 million years ago, whereas rocks with human bones in them are dated as being much newer (less than 5 million years old).
	www.conservapedia.com /Dinosaurs (2473 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado/Utah (part 1 of 3)
		Dinosaur National Monument is located in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah near the northern edge of the Colorado Plateau [Map].
		The Yampa River, the last free-flowing river in the Colorado River system, joins the Green River in the monument at Echo Park, named by explorer John Wesley Powell in 1869 during his first scientific expedition on the Colorado Plateau.
		The quarry preserves the fossilized remains of countless dinosaurs, reptiles and amphibians that were grounded in the mud 120 million years ago.
	www.cpluhna.nau.edu /Places/dinosaur1.htm (456 words)

	Colorado Guide - Dinosaur National Monument (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dinosaur National Monument, located in the arid plateau region of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah, features stunningly rugged canyons, a myriad of recreational opportunities, and of course, an exciting exhibit of dinosaur fossils.
		The Dinosaur Quarry is known worldwide as containing one of the highest concentrations of fossilized dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period.
		The exhibits detail the world the dinosaurs lived in 150 million years ago, and you also have the opportunity to watch technicians working on fossils in the paleontology laboratory through the lab window.
	www.coloradoguide.com /nparks/dina/index.cfm (1152 words)

	Picketwire Canyonlands, Dinosaur Lake, Colorado
		The impact of large dinosaur activity can be seen in the trampled plant stems and a collection of several dozen clams that were killed by the heavy footfalls of Brontosaurs.
		When the ranch was sold in 1971, it was known throughout southeast Colorado as one of the oldest and most successful local enterprises, expanding from Eugene's original settlement of 40 acres to well over 52,000 acres.
		Dinosaur footprints molded into the sandstone at the tracksite.
	www.sangres.com /np/dinosaur/index.htm (502 words)

	The Paleontology Portal
		Colorado lay near the equator during much of the Early and Middle Paleozoic (Cambrian through Devonian) and a variety of marine fossils indicates that a shallow, tropical sea covered the state during this time.
		Dinosaur footprints and fossil flowering plants are common in the forested and swampy coastal areas that formed along its margins.
		Colorado Department of Transportation: The mission of the CDOT Paleontology Program is to collect, preserve and facilitate the scientific study of important fossils and associated geologic and paleontological data that might otherwise be damaged or destroyed by CDOT construction and maintenance activities.
	www.paleoportal.org /index.php?globalnav=time_space§ionnav=state&name=Colorado (1035 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dinosaur National Monument is located in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah and straddling the border of Colorado and Utah.
		Dinosaur is 210,000 acres in size; plenty of room for you to find solitude, magnificent scenery, hike a wild landscape.
		The unique natural exhibit of over 1600 dinosaur bones, in their final resting place, were deposited in an ancient river bed turned to stone.
	inkido.indiana.edu /oregon/dinosaurpark.html (107 words)

	Dinosaur News
		Mexican consulate weighs in on new Colorado immigration...
		Colorado's Moffat County has asked federal officials to endorse its claims to maintain five roads across Bureau of Land Management land, a move that conservation groups view as a tactic to block wilderness...
		A school born at the dirt end of a Colorado highway is enabling thousands of students along the Front Range to take classes in formerly private academies and once forbidden religious centers.
	www.topix.net /city/dinosaur-co (665 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		While the main exhibit wall of dinosaur fossils is closed, some fossils can be seen by hiking ½ mile from the Temporary Visitor Center.
		The Dinosaur Quarry Visitor Center includes the cliff face (with hundreds of dinosaur bones) and other museum exhibits.
		Dinosaur's climate is semiarid with temperatures averaging between 0 (F) to 30 (F) in January and 50 (F) to 100 (F) in July.
	www.nps.gov /dino (283 words)

	GORP - US National Monuments - Dinosaur National Monument - Colorado
		Dinosaur National Monument is the legacy of rivers, past and present.
		The Dinosaur Quarry has revealed many secrets of the past, but the remote and rugged land around it, created by todays rivers, is a secret of the present, known to few travelers.
		Perhaps the unexpected is what Dinosaur National Monument is all about -- a gallery of dinosaur bones in solid rock, the whisper of flowing water heard from a sun-baked canyon rim, the aroma of Douglas-fir on the high mountain slopes.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_nm/co_dinnm.htm (2084 words)

	Parks / Dinosaur National Monument: Bones, Rock Art and Sculpted Landscapes Captivate Travelers
		Dinosaur National Monument is located in the northwest corner of Colorado and northeast corner of Utah, about 100 miles north of Grand Junction.
		The Headquarters Visitor Center is two miles east of Dinosaur, Colorado and the Quarry Deposit is seven miles north of Jensen, Utah.
		Dinosaur National Monument is found on pages 12 and 22 of the DeLorme Colorado Atlas and Gazetteer and on the National Geographic Trails Illustrated #220 Dinosaur National Monument topo map.
	www.coloradodiscoveries.com /articles/dinomnt.html (798 words)

	Dinosaurs, dinosaur museums, Colorado, dinosaur tours, paleontology, fossils, Co, Canon City, Dinosaur Depot, Fremont ...
		Stegosaurus stenops and a clutch of dinosaur eggs.
		Fremont County, Colorado, Oramel W. Lucas, that he discovered bones of an enormous saurian at an outcrop of the rocks of the Dakota group, not far from Cañon City”.
		The specimen was excavated by the Colorado Museum of Natural History (later the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) and was the first dinosaur added to the Museum's collection.
	www.dinosaurdepot.com /history_p1.htm (2428 words)

	Grand Junction : Attractions : Dinosaur National Monument \| Frommers.com
		Most of their skeletons decayed and disappeared, but in at least one spot they were preserved under a layer of sediment, when the river dried up and they died of thirst.
		From Dinosaur, Colorado, head 20 miles west on U.S. 40 to Jensen, Utah, and then go 7 miles north into the park.
		Encompassing 325 square miles of stark canyons at the confluence of the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado, the national monument also has hiking trails to explore, spectacular panoramic vistas, and the thrill of white-water rafting.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/grandjunction/1468024513.html (906 words)

	Nearctica - Family7 - Kids - Dinosaurs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is a phylogeny of the dinosaurs, the biggest and the smallest, anatomy, ages of the Mesozoic, and a very extensive gallery of dinosaur pictures and movies.
		Among the many dinosaur related topics at this site are a virtual reality dinosaur (you'll need Quick Time Virtual Reality), the fossil encyclopedia of short definitions including dinosaurs, pictures of dinosaurs you can color, an article on animation of dinosaurs for the movies, and much more including many pictures of dinosaurs.
		Dinosaur Valley Museum in Colorado has a great collection of photographs of the exhibits in their facility.
	www.nearctica.com /family/kids/dinosaur.htm (609 words)

	Dinosaur National Park - Colorado and Utah
		Dinosaur National Monument is located in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah, straddling the border of these states.
		Dinosaur is 210,000 acres in size; plenty of room for you to find solitude, magnificent scenery, hike a wild landscape, and renew your relationship with nature.
		The Dinosaur Quarry Visitor Center is 7 miles north of Jensen, Utah, on Utah State Highway 149.
	www.coloradowilderness.com /wildpages/dinosaur.html (2211 words)

	Colorado.com \| Dinosaur Tour of Colorado \| Colorado Family Adventure Magazine
		While as of November 2007, the main visitor center, Dinosaur Quarry, is closed for repairs with no completion date scheduled, there are still a number of self-guided trails that lead people along paths of paleontological interest.
		For a special treat, the road is closed once a month for Dinosaur Discovery Days, when visitors can take guided tours to view the tracks, bones and other spectacular examples of geology and paleontology without the distraction of passing traffic.
		Dinosaur Journey in Fruita is devoted to hands-on experiences and even has robotic displays of the beasts that once called this area home.
	www.colorado.com /article366 (623 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dinosaur National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between the American states of Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers.
		The monument boundaries were expanded in 1938 from the original 80-acre tract surrounding the dinosaur quarry in Utah, to its present extent of over 200,000 acres (800 km²) in Utah and Colorado, encompassing the spectacular river canyons of the Green and Yampa.
		U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans for a ten-dam, billion dollar Colorado River Storage Project began to arouse opposition in the early 1950s when it was announced that one of the proposed dams would be at Echo Park, in the middle of Dinosaur National Monument.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dinosaur_National_Monument (799 words)

	The Geological Story of the Dinosaur Tracks at Picketwire Canyonlands, Dinosaur Lake, Colorado
		290 to 245 million years ago (during the Permian age), much of Colorado was a low-lying region, and much of that land was covered by a shallow sea that dried up over the years.
		The rocks are abundant with traces of burrows and invertebrates and the tracks of crocodiles and an Iguanadon-like dinosaur.
		There are so many tracks in the Dakota Sandstone that this area is sometimes referred to as the Cretaceous Dinosaur Freeway, an extensive area of track-bearing rocks representing a dinosaur migration route along the trampled shoreline of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.
	www.sangres.com /np/dinosaur/geology.htm (771 words)

	DINO RUSS's LAIR - Dinosaur Locations and Sites to Visit
		Dinosaur Dreaming is part of a successful project between Museum Victoria and Monash University, the Dinosaur Dreaming fossil excavations at Inverloch over the last 12 years have yielded not only fascinating insights to the life and times of Australia’s Dinosaurs, but also highly significant and intriguing fossil mammals.
		In 2001 the latest dinosaur to be named officially from the Isle of Wight was Eotyrannus, (the oldest ancestor of Tyrannosaurs).All their dinosaurs are from the earliest part of the Cretaceous period (145 - 65 million years ago).
		But some of the first dinosaur fossils ever found were huge bones and teeth, very lizard-like except for their size, and so the idea of monstrous lizards was born.
	www.dinoruss.org /location.html (2885 words)

	Fruita, Colorado - Dinosaurs
		The official dinosaur of Fruita is the Ceratosaurus, a large meat-eating dinosaur with three horns, one of which was excavated from the Fruita Paleontological Area.
		From the world-famous Museum of Western Colorado's Dinosaur Journey, to professionally conducted dinosaur excavations, you'll find as many dinosaur activities right here as anywhere else in the world.
		Some of the world's most significant dinosaur fossil quarries and museums are clustered along this route, in the midst of a forbidding but stunningly beautiful landscape.
	www.fruita.org /tourism/dinosaurs.html (424 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument (DesertUSA)
		Dinosaur National Monument was created in 1915 to preserve one of the world's largest concentrations of Jurassic-age dinosaur bones found in the area.
		Dinosaur National Monument Pass: $20.00 - Allows unlimited entry to Dinosaur for the pass holder and his or her passengers in a single, private, non-commercial vehicle for 12 months from the date of purchase.
		Dinosaur National Monument's mandate from Congress is to preserve the natural and cultural heritage within Dinosaur for future generations to see and enjoy.
	www.desertusa.com /dino/index.html (738 words)

	Dinosaur National Monument, Utah/Colorado
		North of the basin, the Green river crosses from Utah into Colorado and is joined by the Yampa river, and for many miles both rivers flow through deep twisting canyons and gorges cut through the mountain range.
		This dinosaur 'quarry' is close to the Green river, 6 miles from US 40 near Vernal.
		The canyons are different in character to others of the Colorado river system such as Canyonlands or the Grand Canyon, with their eroded flat layers, since here many of the strata have been twisted by geological forces and the rocks are often white and grey, not the dominant red found further south.
	www.americansouthwest.net /utah/dinosaur/national_monument.html (946 words)

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