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	Agate Fossil Beds
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado This site has long been famous for its fossils of insects and plants preserved in fine-grained sediments.
		Development and use of Fossil Butte National Monument is still in the planning stage.
		Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah The late Jurassic muds and sands of the Morrison Formation have been a major source of dinosaur bones for more than a century.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/habitat/agate/nps.htm

	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Campground, RV Motorhome rentals - RVnTravel
		The Florissant Fossil Beds are world-renowned, and in 1969 were set aside as a part of our National Park System; Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
		Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different Colorado of long ago.
		Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor
	www.rvntravel.com /nps/FLFO.asp

	Bird Checklists of the United States
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument -- Florissant, CO
		Montezuma Castle National Monument -- Camp Verde, AZ
		Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge -- TN Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge -- TN
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/chekbird/bigtoc.htm

	Colorado USA
		Vernal, Utah and Dinosaur, Colorado, CO,UT Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
		Florissant, CO Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve
		Estes Park and Grand Lake, CO National Monuments
	www.strathlorntravel.co.uk /travel-colorado.asp

	thedailytimes.com - The Townsend City Commission and mayor will sponsor a meet-and-greet gathering for Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Dale A. Ditmanson at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Townsend Elementary School gymnasium.
		In the early 1990s, Ditmanson was superintendent of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado, then served for four years as assistant superintendent of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument in Arizona and Utah.
		He also was a training specialist at the National Park Service's training center at Harper's Ferry in West Virginia.
		The Townsend City Commission and mayor will sponsor a meet-and-greet gathering for Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Dale A. Ditmanson at 6:30 p.m.
	www.thedailytimes.com /sited/story/html/173439 (292 words)

	Geographic Resource Information Management - Funding
		Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Curecanti National Recreation Area, and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (partnership)
		Mesa Verde National Park and Yucca House National Monument (partnership)
		Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks (partnership)
	imgis.nps.gov /funding.html (292 words)

	Field Adventures: Florissant
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in the mountains of central Colorado just west of Colorado Springs.
		Although a few vertebrates and some snails have been found, it is the plants and insects which have made Florissant famous and for which the national monument was established.
		The fossil-bearing layers are part of the Oligocene Florissant Formation, a volcanigenic unit about 34 million years old which sits atop the Wall Mountain Tuff, a welded tuff capping the billion-year-old Pike's Peak Granite.
	www.fieldadventures.org /flor/florfossilbeds.html (793 words)

	Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act
		This lesson is based on the Hornbek Homestead, which is within the boundaries of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
		Colorado's Florissant Valley lies 35 miles west of Colorado Springs on the flanks of Pikes Peak.
		To the north and east, the Rocky Mountains dominate the skyline.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/67hornbek/67hornbek.htm (157 words)

	GORP - US National Monuments - Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - Colorado
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is today a land of rolling hills and meadows with forests of ponderosa pine, spruce, fir, and aspen.
		Weather: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, elevation 8400 feet (2560 meters), has a typical mountain climate.
		The Florissant fossils hint at what life may have been like about 35 million years ago during the Oligocene Epoch; approximately 30 million years after the age of dinosaurs and at least 33 million years before humans appeared.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/resource/us_nm/co_flori.htm (1657 words)

	Sites Contents
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (National Park Servi - Colorado
		George Washington Carver National Monument (National Park Ser - Virginia
		George Washington Birthplace National Monument (National Park - Virginia
	users.skynet.be /pater.de.smet/sites/contents.html (3009 words)

	Colorado Parks & Forests
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, which is just a trifle too far west to be included on the main map, is shown on the reverse at the same scale as the main map.
		The reverse continues the coverage southward, with almost the entire Indian Peaks Wilderness of Roosevelt National Forest included (most of the rest of the wilderness is shown on the other side, with a small portion of the extreme northwest excluded entirely), as well as large portions of adjacent recreational lands.
		The map is bordered by Elevenmile State Recreation Area in the west, the town of Monument in the northeast, and Colorado Springs in the southeast.
	www.mindbird.com /colorado_parks___forests.htm (2937 words)

	Bird Checklists of the United States
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument -- Florissant, CO
		Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge -- Walden, CO (Updated 5/98)
		Rocky Mountain National Park --Estes Park, CO Return to Bird Checklists of the United States
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/chekbird/r6/8.htm (2937 words)

	Bird Checklists of the United States
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument -- Florissant, CO
		Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge -- Walden, CO (Updated 5/98)
		Rocky Mountain National Park --Estes Park, CO Return to Bird Checklists of the United States
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/chekbird/r6/8.htm (2937 words)

	Geology of National Parks by Alphabet - F
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - Explore The World of Florissant Paleontology
		Numerical modeling of Fire Island National Seashore breach impacts upon circulation and water quality of Great South Bay, NY - a USGS project description
		Relative Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS) to Sea-Level Rise
	wrgis.wr.usgs.gov /docs/parks/state/f.html (159 words)

	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument: This official site of the National Park Service has information on the rocks and fossils at the monument, as well as information on how and when to get there, fossil images, and educational resources.
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Online Museum: An online museum of the geology and paleontology of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
		About this Famous Find: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in the eastern Rocky Mountains, west of Pike& Peak in south central Colorado.
	www.paleoportal.org /famous_finds/assemblage.php?assemblage_id=9 (477 words)

	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life.
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - National Parks Gallery
		The Florissant Fossil Beds were set aside as a part of our National Park System in 1969.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florissant_Fossil_Beds_National_Monument (212 words)

	Colorado Guide - Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
		Florissant Fossil Beds provide a peak into ancient North America through its excellent collection of fossilized plants and insects, including specimens of ancient palm trees, giant katydids and enormous redwood trees.
		Volcanic eruptions formed the fossil bed when they sent lava and mud into the Florissant Basin, capturing insects, leaves, and fish.
		Also situated on the monument is the 1878 Hornbek Homestead, which recalls the life of early pioneers.
	www.coloradoguide.com /nparks/flfo/index.cfm (292 words)

	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - Explore The World of Florissant Paleontology
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in Colorado, USA, west of Colorado Springs.
		Because this information pertaining to the Florissant fossils has become complexly scattered throughout the literature and between different museums, the National Park Service has developed this new database in order to integrate taxonomic, museum collection, and publication data into a single virtual museum.
		This taxonomic information updates the taxonomic position of Florissant fossils and may supercede the older taxonomic information in the museum database, much of which is more than 100 years old.
	planning.nps.gov /flfo (542 words)

	Partnering and Managing for Excellence: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in central Colorado, just west of Pikes Peak.
		The Monument's 6,000 acres of rolling hills and grassy meadows cover one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world.
		Protection Rangers are working with other national parks with similar issues in an attempt to increase the Monument's effectiveness in reducing the loss of the resource.
	www.nps.gov /parkoftheweek/flfo.htm (1024 words)

	L.L.Bean: Park Search - Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
		The monument is located two miles south of Florissant and Hwy.
		The monument does not have campgrounds, but Forest Service and Mueller State Park campgrounds are nearby.
		Food and fuel are available in the town of Florissant.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/3002gd.htm (1024 words)

	Independent Study in Paleontology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
		Her research this summer was made possible by an internship at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
		The Florissant Fossil Beds were established as a national monument by the National Park Service in 1969 to preserve the Late Eocene plant and insect fossils found there today.
		Her field supervisor was Dr. Herb Meyer, a paleobotanist with the National Park Service.
	www.wooster.edu /geology/MWIS/Amanda.html (357 words)

	Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado
		, (1) Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816, jeff_wolin@nps.gov, (2) Southern Colorado Geodata Lab, Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Dept. GES Mailbox COB2, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, (3) National Park Service Intermountain Region, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO 80225
		11:00 AM MEYER, Herbert W., Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816, Herb_Meyer@nps.gov.
		Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/session_12733.htm (453 words)

	Bird Checklists of the United States
		Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument -- Florissant, CO
		Great Sand Dunes National Monument -- Mosca, CO (Printed 1989)
		Rocky Mountain National Park --Estes Park, CO Return to Bird Checklists of the United States
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/chekbird/r6/8.htm (134 words)

	Wood Products, Department of Wood and Paper Science
		* Wheeler, E.A. Fossil dicotyledonous woods from the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado.
		Late Cretaceous woody dicots from the Aguja and Javelina Formations, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA.
		Cretaceous – Paleocene conifer woods from Big Bend National Park, Texas.
	www.cfr.ncsu.edu /wps/people/faculty/wheeler.htm (134 words)

	Ultimate Florissant Fossil Beds Natl. Monument Experience
		This outdoor-based class offers an unmatched opportunity to understand the basics of paleontology and the volcanic setting of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
		The next stop will be the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument where the rest of the day will be spent attending presentations and exploring selected trails in the monument.
		The volcanic setting of the fossil beds will be reviewed from this beautiful overlook.
	www.caee.org /environmental-ed/msg00443.html (637 words)

	Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act
		This lesson is based on the Hornbek Homestead, which is within the boundaries of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
		In the center of this lush valley stands the Hornbek homestead complex, the home of a strong, determined woman who came to the area with her four children in the 1870s.
		Claiming land under the Homestead Act, Adeline Hornbek defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a prosperous ranch.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/67hornbek/67hornbek.htm (157 words)

	2004 GSA Annual Meeting - Premeeting Field Trips
		This trip will include visits to an outcrop and overlook of the Thirtynine Mile volcanic field, to the petrified forest and visitor center at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and to a site where fossil leaves and insects can be collected.
		This well-illustrated field trip will be a roadside overview of the variety of structures found in the area and how they relate to regional lineaments and the structure of the adjacent Denver Basin.
		The first day of this two-day field excursion covers the mining geology of the Silver Cliff-Rosita Hills mining district on the west flank of the Wet Mountains, Colorado.
	www.geosociety.org /meetings/2004/ft-pre.htm (1801 words)

	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - Explore The World of Florissant Paleontology
		You must contact that museum for further information or permission for use.
		"A new combination is not formerly created, although the authors state that \"there seems to be more reason for regarding Dr. Carpenter's sculpturatus as a Pogonomyrmex.\""
	planning.nps.gov /flfo/tax3_Detail.cfm?ID=459543472 (160 words)

	Woodland Park Colorado Real Estate
		Nearby attractions include the world famous gold mining town of Victor, limited stakes gaming in Cripple Creek, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Mueller State Park and Wildlife Area, the Air Force Academy, Garden of the Gods, the Pikes Peak Highway and the Olympic Training Center.
		Colorado Springs 17 miles west, 94 miles south of Denver, 90 miles from Breckenridge ski areas and 21 miles from the Colorado Springs Airport.
		Click Here to request a list of homes for sale in Woodland Park.
	www.relocate-america.com /states/CO/cities/woodland_par.htm (258 words)

	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
		PLANE - Colorado Springs is the closest airport to the Monument.
		Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different Colorado of long ago.
		Visitors traveling north/south on I-25: Exit at US 24 West, travel 35 miles to town of Florissant, then follow signs two miles south to the visitor center on Teller County 1.
	www.coloentertainment.net /natlfor/florissant_fb.cfm (747 words)

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