On August 25 Petrified Forest plans to hold a bio blitz. It is an opportunity for a limited number of interested citizen scientists to be led by subject matter experts into the park to tally all the various biota they encounter over a 24-hour period. …
Prairie Dogs at Petrified Forest National Park
If you’ve visited Petrified Forest National Park, you’ll remember it is Arizona’s big sky country. Grasslands, badland hills, and rocky mesas are the predominant landforms in a wide variety of colors. For over 100 years, similar lands outside the …
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Helium Mining: A New Issue for Petrified Forest
It has been known for decades that helium gas is plentiful at some locations underground in the Holbrook Basin, a geologic region that includes a large part of Petrified Forest National Park. Rising prices have generated new interest in mining …
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Growing Small
By Amy Lynn Reifsnyder Where do I begin? How do I tell you that since participating in Petrified Forest Field Institute’s Fossil Dig, I look out my front door differently? What could I tell you that would bring to you the same sense of adventure, …
Facility Projects: Moving Forward with Improvements
The National Park Service gets national attention from time to time about its deferred maintenance backlog. Petrified Forest is addressing this issue through a variety of upcoming projects. The park’s deferred maintenance total is approximately $44 …
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Public Lands Day – September 30, 2017
Hi all - Public Lands Day this year is September 30. We hope it's not the eve of a government shutdown! We at Petrified Forest plan to do a couple of projects at park headquarters. One will be converting our former fire engine bay into a …
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