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Today was great! I started with Toadstool Geologic Park in the Oglalla Grasslands. I knew I was in for a treat after seeing a garter snake, a burrow of young skunks, pronghorns and oodles of meadowlarks. Toadstool is 30 million year old claystone and sandstone formation (badlands). The coolest thing was seeing trackways of rhinos and entelodonts. Afterward I got a fantastic tour of the Meng-Hudson Bison Bone bed. A ten-thousand year old deposit of hundreds of an extinct bison. The highpoint was the forest service guide showing me indian artifacts in situ he had found the previous day. Lastly I visited the trailside museum at Fort Robinson. It has two Columbia mammoths who died with their tusks locked together. The best part is they named them Cope and Marsh after the feuding 19th Century paleontologists. I am now in Wyoming. The Rockies are stunning.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:51:36 +0000

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