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information and directions. There’s Gorgosaurus, Centrosaurus
At the Museum of Ancient Life and a Parasaurolophus, all vying for In Memoriam
in Lehi, just 20 minutes south of Salt mug shots in your viewfinder. Go to
Lake City, you can interact with more www.tyrrellmuseum.com . . . oh, and Emma Schliepp
than 50 hands-on exhibits for dino remember to gas up! ❏
fanatics and view Supersaurus—55 Emma Schliepp passed away
tons of bones and blubber and one of on April 22 after a brief illness.
the heaviest creatures ever to walk Help!!! She joined Friends in 1985—one
the earth. Access www.thanksgiving- of our original members. After her
point.com/museum for a complete Due to the mass exodus to cooler retirement from General Motors,
inventory of things to see and do. climes, we have a shortage of desk vol- Emma was very involved in all
But if you really want to hit a unteers for June. If you are able to fill of the “natural” aspects of Red
mother lode of fossils, these next one of the empty spaces, please email Rock, from leading hikes and
several sites will more than justify Jane_Huttleston@nv.blm.gov or call assisting with the Environmental
her at the Visitor Center, 515-5350.
the drive time: If you can look ahead to July Education programs to her
Dinosaur National Monument, and August, there will probably be favorite duty—working on the
Jensen Utah, offers more than 1,400 a similar shortage. Your help will be Information Desk. She worked
bones in an exposed wall of the Dou- greatly appreciated! at the Desk since the service
glass Quarry, which forms one wall was established, well before
of the Visitor Center. Excavations Friends of Red Rock Canyon
continue at a number of quarry sites was created. She was a constant
(which you can’t visit). For informa- Campground News presence on all of the Desk Field
tion, see www.nps.gov/dino. ed Rock Day, 2007 — I Trips, usually hanging out with
Dinosaur Provincial Park, would like to extend a HUGE Lucy Haussmann. You could
Brooks, Alberta, Canada features RTHANK YOU to everyone always count on “spiked” treats
rocks from the late Cretaceous pe- who volunteered at the campground on the days that Emma worked
riod in a region where hadrosaurs on Red Rock Day. All of the sched- the Desk at the Rock. She
and ceratopsians gathered to graze uled projects were completed! A received a special pie plate at
and were preyed upon by the likes very SPECIAL THANK YOU to the 2001 Volunteer Appreciation
of Gorgosaurus, a fearsome preda- my Team Leaders Vicki Sudduth and Banquet with the admonition to
tor and successor to Tyrannosaurus Mark Beauchamp. I am so grateful ‘keep it filled’ for the crew.
rex. Since the beginning of the 20th that you guys were there to assist! Emma was a treasure who
century—when the first major fossil T H A N K Y O U t o M a r k was committed to “pay back” an
finds emerged—to the present day, Beauchamp; Chuck Williams; Leah area that provided her so much
the site has produced the fossils of Vann; Steve Creger; the Sudduth joy. She also provided us and
37 different dinosaur species and ‘chain gang’ —Vicki, Bill, Jim, many others a great deal of joy.
more bones than any similar site in Missy, Josh and Daren; Sharon Ed- Donations may be made
the world. This is THE place for di- wards; Claire McLaughlin; Brittaney in memory of Emma to
nosaurs, at www.cd.gov.ab.ca/parks/ White; Leslie and Alexia Shurmur; the ASPCA.
dinosaur. Reservations for some Yulia Kravtsova; Stacy Quezada;
activities are recommended. Nancy, Celeste and Simon Melonas;
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Jane Huttleston; Tom Ho; Gail Rout-
Drumheller, Alberta, Canada is just song; Andrew Aguirre; Jennifer and PLEASE NOTE:
north of Calgary and is a leading Robert Holmes; Lauretta Coleman; The June board meeting has
center of scientific research. The Candice Rausch; Mitch Brunscheen; been changed to Tuesday, June
exhibits cover the gamut of 3.9 bil- and Richard Lewnau. 5, at 2 p.m. in the Friends Room.
lion years of earth’s history, but the You guys are the best! Members welcome.
“terrible lizards” hold center stage. —Barb Jorgensen

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