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In every cliff and valley, Dinosaur Provincial
Park holds a fascinating and ageless story. Its bad-
lands have yielded hundreds of museum calibre
specimens to dinosaur museum collections all over
the world. Its eerie, long shadowed vistas and over-
whelming silence, are inspiration to landscape

photographers everywhere.

The park’s fragile environs boasts a new field
station complete with camping facilities and, along
with the dinosaur sceletons, a very interesting array
of present day flora and fauna. Bus tours and hiking
The never ending struggle of predator and prey
as exhibited at the field station (Dromaeosau- trails serve the visitor well to compile his or her
rus or ‘Swift Lizard’ attacks a Lambeosaurus) own collection of unforgettable memories.

For the paleontologist, Dinosaur Provincial Park is a showcase to study our prehistoric past and
preserve the delicate remains for future generations.

Dinosaur Provincial Park is located two hours east of Calgary, Alberta, near Brooks, off the

Trans-Canada Highway. In 1980 it was designated a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE,
joining the ranks of other protected sites such as the Pyramids of Egypt, the Parthenon in Greece
and New York’s Statue of Liberty.

ISBN 0 - 88962 - 556 - 5
Book and cover design by Patty Gallinger
Cover photo by C. Wallis
Mosaic Press, Publishers