The “Fossils On Your Public Lands” is a new temporary exhibit at the Western Science Center museum that showcases fossils found at National Parks, Bureau of Land Management and other public lands in the United States. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
The Western Science Center, home of one of largest mastodon fossil collections in the world, announced a new temporary exhibit with fossils collected in America Public Lands that will run until the end of the 2022-2023 school year.The exhibit, “Fossils on Your Public Lands” opened to the public on Aug. 27, preceded by a number of special VIP tours for WSC members conducted by Brett S. Dooley, educator and events coordinator.Designed as a tour through over half a dozen of our nation’s federal sites, the exhibit features 3D images of fossils from as far away as Virginia and Louisiana. The 3D specimens on display span 80 million years of time and include fossils such as bear dogs from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and pygmy mammoths on loan from the Santa Barbara Museum
