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After the fires: Mesa Verde National Park

Two lightning-ignited fires roared through forests of pinon pine, Utah juniper and Gambel oak in Mesa Verde National Park, scorching 21,061 acres in the park and another 7,786 acres nearby.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology, Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Ecology, Rocky Mountain Forest Fires, Rocky Mountain Forests

Land buy ensures Santa Fe petroglyph access

The purchase preserves permanent public access via County Road 42 to Petroglyph Hill, an important archaeological site on an adjacent 780-acre parcel purchased last year.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology, New Mexico Recreation & Environment

Blame mammal extinction on climate, not humans

Instead of human activity killing off megafauna, Grayson points to climate shifts during the late Pleistocene epoch, which ended about 10,000 years ago, and subsequent changes in weather and plants as the likely culprits.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology

Canyon of the Ancients National Monument created

The 164,000-acre monument contains the highest known density of archaeological sites anywhere in the U.S, according to the BLM.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology, Colorado Recreation & Environment

Navajo National Monument: An ancient oasis in northern Arizona

Tucked away in remote Tsegi Canyon, the monument surrounds a small desert oasis, a place abundant in plant life, with mountain mahogany, Gambel oak, serviceberry, rice grass and Douglas fir scattered across the canyon.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology, Southwest Ecology

World’s oldest known fossil reptile nests discovered in Arizona’s Petrified Forest

The fossil nests, dating to about 220 million years ago, are similar to modern-day crocodile and turtle nests.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology, Southwest Ecology

Researchers excavate mammoth remains in New Mexico

Columbian mammoths ranged over much of what is now the southern United States and Mexico up until the end of the last Ice Age, when they became extinct.

Filed Under: American West Archaeology & Paleontology, New Mexico Recreation & Environment

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