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Summer/Fall 2009 Meeting Schedule

July 9: No meeting in July—time to be out in the field finding treasures!

Aug 22 (Saturday)—Annual picnic, North Boulder Park, 11:00 am (see “From the Board”, this page).

Sept 10 —Program to be announced

Oct 8—This will be our big Silent Auction, so start looking for items that you want to sell. Details will be in the September newsletter.

Nov 12—Program to be announced, but also Special door prizes will be given out at this club meeting to all those who volunteered their time working at the Denver show:

The club has seven REALLY NICE new prizes that will be drawn one every 45 seconds on a first-comefirst-serve basis. Each FMC volunteer at the Denver Show will receive one ticket stub per day worked, from Gerry Naugle who will be at the show all three days. The FMC folks there on Thursday to help with set up will garner two ticket stubs for that day. The FMC folks there for Sunday night show tear-down will get three ticket stubs for their assistance on that evening, and they also get sub-sandwiches from the Denver Show committee.

So if you haven’t yet signed up for some job at the Denver Show, do so now by contacting Gerry Naugle, and make yourself eligible for these great prizes!



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Upcoming Club Field Trips


Jasper Hill Craig Hazleton will lead a trip on Sunday July 12 to the jasper mother lode he recently found. Lots and lots and lots of yellow chert and red jasper on public land (National Forest Service, 25# per day per person limit) near BuenaVista. Craig has used the rock to make several nice pendants, and considers it very good lapidary material. The site might be what is called "Jasper Hill", it is in Arnold Gulch. Material: Yellow Chert, Red Jasper, some Agate, chert and jasper have some interesting patterns, very good for lapidary or tumbling. Equipment: Bucket, rock hammer, maybe a shovel or scoop, there is a lot of good rock just laying on the surface. Access: High clearance for 1.5 miles, rough road, but not 4WD. We can carpool from the trailhead if needed. The mine is about 0.3 miles of easy walking from parking on US Forest Service Land. Logistics: Bring a lunch, water, sunscreen, bug repellant, sturdy shoes, clothes and gloves. The site is nice and generally in the trees, but it often rains in the afternoon this time of the year. Trip Leader: Craig Hazelton. Meeting Place: Silver Heels Market, Fairplay Colorado (719) 836-9300 (first gas station on the right as you come into Fairplay from the north on 285) at 9:30 a.m.

Hartsel for Barite, Sunday, July 25. This is a great day trip. You are guaranteed to find blue to pale white barite crystals embedded in a clay derived from, or part of, limestones in the late Paleozoic Maroon Formation. This is about a 2-2 1/2 hour trip going toward Buena Vista, so this is not a long drive. We will need to be in Hartsel by 9 am at the Bayou Salado Trading Post, Hartsel, CO. Arrive early at Bayou Salado to enjoy their coffee and browse their collection of rocks and minerals for sale. You can’t miss it. It is on the far west side of town. The claim owner will be taking us to the site and will be there to answer questions. Let me know if you need/want to car pool. A high-clearance passenger car could make it over the road. Might be better to have a high clearance Pickup or van/SUV. If it is muddy, probably no cars. We can also car-pool from the trading post. There are lots of campsites and rock sites in the area if you want to make a weekend of it with the family.

Short shovel, pick, digging tools, wrapping paper, heavy collecting bag. The crystals are in a clay and digging is required, either with a pick or shovel or both. Bring lots of water, hat, sunscreen etc. No facilities. No shade. Was told it is in the 80's that time of year but you never know. This is a good trip for those of you with kids.

Participants must register with Shaula Lee via email or phone. I would really like to see a big turn-out of club participation on this trip—Shaula.

Contin-Tail, Buena Vista. Date: Saturday, August 8. Let’s get a road trip going to see this annual big outdoor tail-gate show at the Buena Vista Fairgrounds. Contact Shaula Lee,

Lake George for amazonite and smoky quartz and/or Badger (near Hartsel) for Peridot. Date: Saturday, Sept. 12. This trip will be with the CSMS, Colorado Springs, to their claim. 4WD may be required. We should work out car-pooling in advance. Contact Shaula Lee.

Tepee Buttes, Sept. 26 (Saturday): Tepee Buttes, east of Pueblo, to collect Cretaceous marine fossils, including clams and ammonites. During the Cretaceous age while Tyrannosaurus Rex ruled the land, eastern Colorado was a large shallow sea. The Tepee Buttes fossils are from a reef community feed by undersea methane vents. We are fortunate to have permission to collect on private land for this trip. This is a good field trip for kids, as everyone will find fossils. Please contact Dennis Gertenbach to sign up for the trip or for information.

Yellow Cat Mine, Utah, October (date to be determined). Several brave and waterproof club members joined up to enjoy the barren (and wet) beauty of Utah in May of this year. A few times we had to take cover from the storms but a lot of rocks were collected and on a beautiful Sunday, and guide books were used to explore new areas. We found some nice specimens of barite, agate, and abandoned uranium mines. We also found that the mileage in the books is a best guess. We re-mapped it. If you missed out on the May trip, North Jeffco has a trip planned early Oct and I will check to see if FMC can join them. Try to do this trip at least once. It is well worth it. Contact Shaula Lee for more information.


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Rockhound of the Year nominations solicited

The Flatirons Mineral club is seeking nominations for our annual “Rockhound of the Year” award, to be presented at out annual picnic on Aug 22. Please take a minute to think of someone in our club who has gone “above and beyond” this past year in efforts to collect great specimens, discover new collecting sites, or to advance our hobbies of rockhounding and lapidary arts. The nominating form is attached—please submit your nominations to Gerry Naugle (details on form) by July 31.

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FMC Board Meeting
 

July 27 (Monday) is the next Board Meeting at Paul Boni's house at 6762 Bugle Court in Twin Lakes/Gunbarrel area of Boulder, 7:15 p.m. For directions, please call Paul. As always, all club members are invited to the club's Board Meetings.

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Denver Gem and Mineral Show

September 18-20 (Friday through Sunday) is the annual Denver Gem and Mineral Show, the second largest in the country. Volunteers are needed to help with many different jobs at the show, as well as helping at the club table. We will have sign-up sheets at club meetings and at the picnic on Aug 22, or you can sign up by contacting Gerry Naugle at gnaugle@earthlink.net or 303-591-2830. The club will hold a brief super door prize drawing at the September 24th club meeting for all of the club volunteers who work at the Denver Show this year. Each FMC volunteer at the Denver Show will get one ticket stub per day. The club has seven REALLY NICE prizes that will be drawn on a first-come-first-serve basis.

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Dino Days Volunteers Needed

August 1 (Saturday) Barb Melby of the North Jeffco Club is looking for volunteers for Dino Days. Volunteers that day get all kinds of neat perks and get to work with the youngsters. Please contact Barb.

 

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Wednesday Nights at Charlotte’s

Lapidary Work/Grab Bag Samples Nights - Remember, use of the club's lapidary equipment, including saws and lapidary machines, is open to all club members every Wednesday night at Charlotte Morrison's home. Also on Wednesdays, help is always welcome to prepare grab bag specimens for next year's grab bags for the kids. Please contact Charlotte to let her know you are coming.


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Walking with Dinosaurs

If you are interested in dinosaurs, you might want to check out the big show “Walking with Dinosaurs” coming to the Pepsi Center July 29-Aug 2 (http://www.dinosaurlive.com). This is a large commercial show with (it appears) animatronic life-size dinosaurs, a story, etc. Tickets are sold by Ticketmaster (see www.TicketHorse.com).

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Kiowa Field Trip

On the first Saturday in May, the club visited a ranch to collect petrified wood and other specimens. The weather was picture perfect after a month of rainy and snowy weekend weather. Several folks found some nice petrified wood, as can be seen in the photo. Other unexpected finds included beautiful leaf fossils, fossil bone pieces, and even an arrowhead. A special thanks to the landowner for allowing the club to collect on their property and also to Shaula Lee for arranging the trip for the club.
 

Our first collecting spot on the ranch land outside of Kiowa.


Some of the petrified wood found during the trip.


A fossil leaf.


One of the best petrified wood specimens found – an arrowhead.

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McCoy Field Trip

On June 6 and 7, fifteen club members traveled to McCoy to look for Pennsylvanian-age fossils. McCoy is well known for its marine fossils, dating back about 300 million years ago when central Colorado was a warm sea. Some great fossils were found, including a nice crinoid cup, several sharks teeth, trilobites, lots of brachiopods and crinoid stems, and several other marine fossils. Again, we had great weather and nine members camped out overnight in the area. Again, we thank the two landowners who allowed us to collect on their property.

 

Marie Mozdon and Natsuki Takazawa collecting fossils at a place known as Crinoid City for the abundance of crinoid stems in the area.

A trilobite pygidium (back end)


A nearly complete crinoid cup.


Sea urchin spines
 

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Jr. Geologists Are out Collecting This Summer

Taking advantage of the great summer weather and long days, the Jr. Geologists are out collecting. The specimens they collect will be displayed at the club picnic on August 22nd. Jr. Geologists families will be notified about the collecting dates for July and August.

The Jr. Geologists program is open to all Flatirons Mineral Club families. Each month we learn more about geology, plus earn badges for different earth science activities. For information about the Jr. Geologists program, please contact Dennis Gertenbach.

The Jr. Geologists collecting mica, tourmaline, and feldspar at a pegmatite outcrop in Golden Gate Canyon.
 

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Fossils in the News
by Dennis Gertenbach

Did the Asteroid Kill the Dinosaurs? Maybe Not.

Two recently published studies question the popular theory that the Chicxulub asteroid led to the demise of the dinosaurs, along with 65% of all species 65 million years ago. Researchers led by Gerta Keller of Princeton University and Thierry Adatte of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, published evidence from Mexico to suggest that the Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary (the boundary where dinosaurs became extinct) by as much as 300,000 years. By carefully studying the sandstone layers in rocks from El Penon and other localities in Mexico, they showed that the mass extinction level is between 12 and 28 feet above the spherical minerals from the asteroid impact. The sediments separating the two events have burrows from creatures on the ocean floor, indicating that they were deposited at normal rates of about 1 inch every thousand years, not deposited quickly by a tsunami or earthquake from the asteroid impact. At one site at El Penon, the researchers found 52 species present in sediments below the impact layer and all 52 were still present in the layers above the impact minerals.

In another recently published study, new fossil evidence suggests some dinosaurs survived for up to half a million years after the impact. Scientists led by Jim Fassett of the US Geological Survey analyzed dinosaur bones found in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado. The chemical
composition of the bones suggests that these dinosaurs outlived the asteroid impact. They looked at the possibility that the bones had been exhumed by rivers and then redeposited in younger rocks. However, magnetic polarity and chemical composition indicated that the bones were indeed younger than the impact boundary. Also, a group of 34 hadrosaur bones were found lying together from a single animal. If they had been exhumed from older rock and redeposited by a river, the bones would have been widely scattered.

Earth’s Oldest Animal Found in Canada

Researchers have found what may be the Earth's oldest animal in the Mackenzie Mountains of Canada. Paleontologist Elizabeth Turner of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, and two other scientists discovered traces of a primitive sponge-like creature that dates back to 850 million years ago. These simple creatures are thought to be predecessors of animals on earth today. This discovery pushes back the first discovered animals by more than 200 million years. The previous record was a discovery made in the Arabian Peninsula that dated animal life to 635 million years ago.

Venom-Shooting Mega Shrew

Scientists in Spain have found the fossil remains of a new species of mega shrew that was capable of shooting venom out of its teeth. Dolinasorex glyphodon was 2.1 ounces, four times heaver than the largest modern shrew. (That weight is mega for a shrew.) Its red teeth were capable of injecting toxic saliva through a narrow channel on the inside surface of its lower incisors, similar to how snakes inject venom. The fossils date to between 780,000 and 900,000 years ago. The animal was more closely related to eastern Asian shrews and are thought to have evolved in eastern Asia and then migrated to the Iberian Peninsula.
 

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Words of Caution
by John Wright, RPG, Conservation & Legislation Chair, AFMS
[From the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Newsletter, June-July, 2009]

If you plan on visiting the National Forest be aware that you cannot trust the information on their “web sites” or in their brochures as Forest Service law enforcement officers use a different set of rules, regulations, and interpretations than the ones published. These inconsistencies are probably the result of poor coordination within the departments of the National Forest and if you have ever attended any of the public forums they conduct, you know just how poorly organized they are. Unfortunately, Forest Service officials and Federal Judges invariably side with the law enforcement officers no matter how inconsistent or corrupt the circumstances may be. Dick Pankey, President of ALAA, informed me of a pending case which is very typical of what can happen that occurred in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests located in northern Georgia. The victims in this case are Dr. Madden, MD, and his fiancé, who were rock-hounding in compliance with the Forest Service directives, but criminally charged anyway. I believe this is an important enough example that all of our members should be made aware of the problems they could encounter when visiting in “our” National Forests. Permission was granted by the victim, Dr. Madden, to use his very well written account of the circumstances, which unfortunately is very typical of a number of other similar cases being adjudicated in the SFMS area at the present time.

E-Mail received from Dick Pankey: A couple of weeks ago I received this article. It was written by a rockhound from Georgia. He first contacted me in early February. We have exchanged e-mails, had telephone conversations and he has provided me with other information regarding collecting in Georgia National Forests and the charges against him and his fiancé. I have begun collecting rockhounding/collecting regulations and information from BLM and FS offices around the country.

So far much of the information is sketchy and vague. Written regulation and pamphlets most often don’t exist. What I have found out is that although the laws allows for collecting on BLM and FS land each district can establish their own management plan based on their interpretation of the law and the ranger/enforcement officer enforces the management plan based upon their interpretation. And these vary widely! So we have undocumented, inconsistent regulations, enforced by people based upon their ideas and agendas, so THIS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. Dick Pankey, President, ALAA

THIS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU
On November 1, 2008, my fiancé, Dori, and I were criminally charged with collecting Staurolites on U.S. Forest Service land. Local collectors have been going to this location to collect Staurolites for over 30 years. Our friends, Tonya and Barry, informed us of the location in Blue Ridge. We visited this area four (4) times in the summer and fall of 2008. The Staurolites we found on the surface were mostly poor quality. However, just a few inches under the surface using a scraper we found much better quality ones. We used hand tools including a scraper and a small pick. I feel we were very careful not to damage the site. We did not dig more than 6 or 7 inches and completely filled in our holes and raked the dirt to ensure the site looked undisturbed. On November 1, 2008 Officer Mike Tipton of the USFS approached us. We did not attempt to hide ourselves because we had no idea we were doing anything wrong. He stated he had set up a video camera at the site and had been watching us. This was very alarming to us. I assured him if he had approached us that first time and explained that the Forest Service did not wish us to collect here, we would have politely left and never returned. He will attest to the fact that we were cooperative. He even complimented us stating we were “not like most of the individuals he deals with.” Officer Tipton approached us and asked us what we were looking for. We told him we were looking for Staurolites. He did not know what Staurolites were, but informed us we needed a mining permit to dig for any type of mineral. He told us any Staurolites we find are government property. Next he confiscated our scraping tools, knap sack and bucket. He separated us and read me my Miranda rights. At this point he asked me if I would allow federal agents to search my home in Rome for any other federal property. When I said “no” my interview was over. Evidently he tried to obtain a search warrant, but was unsuccessful. Officer Tipton repeatedly inquired as to whether we sold rocks. I told him I have never sold minerals and Staurolites have only intrinsic value. In the past there have been locations in Blue Ridge (Hackney Farm) that have allowed individuals to collect a bucket of them for $5.00. On January 11, 2009, Officer Tipton gave us a courtesy call. He stated we are being charged criminally with 261.9(a) destroying a natural feature or property of the United States ($250.00 fine) and 261.9(b) removing a natural feature or property of the United States ($250.00 fine). These are criminal misdemeanor offenses and can result in a criminal record. I strongly feel the section we are being charged under is both vague and does not address the important point that we were collecting minerals.

Mineral collecting is generally allowed on most U.S. Forest Service lands including public domain lands and acquired lands. Unfortunately, each individual Forest Service can now make the rules (on acquired lands) dictating the rules for rock hounding and Georgia has one of the most restrictive policies. Under this charge it appears we are vandals or even worse thieves. I told Officer Tipton I was considering going to court. Five days later when I received my ticket it had doubled to $400.00 for each offense for a total of $2000.00. In conclusion, I feel strongly we took the utmost care to treat this land with care. We spent at least 15-20 minutes each time to leave the ground looking undisturbed. I feel the US Forest Service in Georgia is treating mineral collectors like criminals. Mineral collecting has in the past been considered a wholesome and educational activity. In other states, the US Forest Service has been much more responsive to working with mineral collectors and even encourages collecting. I am saddened that in Georgia the US Forest Service is now considering it a criminal offense. Thank you for the time you spend considering this matter. (Signed) Robert Madden, M.D.

Note: This is the Federal Code that Dr. Madden was charged with violating. The specific items in the charges are underlined and in “Bold” print. 36 CFR 261.9 - Property. Code of Federal Regulations - Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property (December 2005)
TITLE 36 - PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY CHAPTER 11 – FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE PART 261 –PROHIBITIONS, subpart a – GENERAL PROHIBITIONS
261.9 – Property
The following are prohibited: (a) Damaging any natural feature or other property of the United States. (b) Removing any natural feature or other property of the United States. (c) Damaging any plant that is classified as a threatened, endangered, sensitive, rare, or unique species. (d) Removing any plant that is classified as a threatened, endangered, sensitive, rare, or unique species. (e) Entering any building, structure, or enclosed area owned or controlled by the United States when such building, structure, or enclosed area is not open to the public. (f) Using any pesticide except for personal use as an insect repellent or as provided by special-use authorization for other minor uses. (g) Digging in, excavating, disturbing, injuring, destroying, or in any way damaging any prehistoric, historic, or archaeological resource, structure, site, artifact, or property. (h) Removing any prehistoric, historic, or archaeological resource, structure, site, artifact, property. (i) Excavating, damaging, or removing any vertebrate fossil or removing any paleontological resource for commercial purposes without a special use authorization. (j) Excavating, damaging, or removing any cave resource from a cave without a special use authorization, or removing any cave resource for commercial purposes.
[46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981, as amended at 49 FR 25450, June 21, 1984; 51 FR 30356, Aug. 26, 1986; 59 FR 31152, June 17, 1994]
{Note: This excerpt is from Page 2, Official Web Site of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest}

 

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When an Asteroid Hits, Why it is Better to be a Small Fish

When the Chixicub, Mexico asteroid struck the earth at the end of the Cretaceous (K-T Boundary) about 65 million years ago, the resultant impact clouded the earth in soot and smoke. This blocked photosynthesis on land and in the sea, undermined food chains at all levels and led to the extinction of thousands of species of flora and fauna, including dinosaurs. At that time, mammals fared considerably better because they burrowed in underground dens and took advantage of geologic features such as cracks and caves. Scientists have speculated that during the interval of the die-off due to the impact, large predatory fishes might have been more likely than other fishes to go extinct because they tended to have slowly increasing populations, live more spread out, take longer to mature, and occupy precarious positions at the tops of food chains. Today, ecologically similar smaller fishes appear to be the most able to rebound from declining numbers due to overfishing.

Eocene Herrings from near Kemmerer, WY
Reprinted with permission from ScienceDaily Inc. Full article appearing in on-line edition on March 27th, 2009 http://www.sciencedaily.com Any reprints of this FMC excerpt require individual permissions from ScienceDaily Inc.
 

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Cache of Clovis Tools Found in Boulder

BOULDER, Colo. -- Someone left their tools in a Boulder yard --13,000 years ago. The Clovis-era stone tools, uncovered last year, appeared to have been used to butcher ice-age camels and horses that roamed this part of North America until they became extinct. The find was announced in February by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Scientists examining the tools found protein residue from extinct camels and horse protein residue, said CU-Boulder Anthropology Professor Douglas Bamforth. The tool cache is one of only a handful of Clovis-age artifact caches that have been unearthed in North America, said Bamforth, who studies Paleo-Indian culture and tools. Named the Mahaffy Cache, after Boulder resident and landowner Patrick Mahaffy, the collection is one of only two Clovis caches -- the other is from Washington state - that have been analyzed for protein residue from ice- age mammals, said Bamforth. In addition to the camel and horse residue on the artifacts, a third item from the Mahaffy Cache is the first Clovis tool ever to test positive for sheep, and a fourth tested positive for bear. The Mahaffy Cache consists of 83 stone implements ranging from salad plate-sized, elegantly crafted bifacial knives and a unique tool resembling a double-bitted ax to small blades and flint scraps. Discovered in May 2008 by Brant Turney, head of a landscaping crew working on the Mahaffy property, the cache was unearthed with a shovel under about 18 inches of soil and was packed tightly into a hole about the size of a large shoebox. It appeared to have been untouched for thousands of years, Bamforth said. Although the surface of the house lot had been lowered by construction work over the years, an analysis of photos from the Mahaffy Cache excavation site by CU-Boulder geological sciences Emeritus Professor Peter Birkeland confirmed the approximate age of sediment layer containing the Clovis implements. The site appears to be on the edge of an ancient drainage that ran northeast from Boulder’s foothills, said Bamforth. "The idea that these Clovis-age tools essentially fell out of someone’s yard in Boulder is astonishing," he said. "But the evidence I’ve seen gives me no reason to believe the cache has been disturbed since the items were placed there for storage about 13,000 years ago." The artifacts were buried in coarse, sandy sediment overlain by dark, clay-like soil and appear to have been cached on the edge of an ancient stream, said Bamforth. "It looks like someone gathered together some of their most spectacular tools and other ordinary scraps of potentially useful material and stuck them all into a small hole in the ground, fully expecting to come back at a later date and retrieve them." Bamforth said he knew immediately that much of the stone used to craft the tools in the cache originated from Colorado’s Western Slope and perhaps as far north as southern Wyoming. The stone appears to have come from at least four distinct regions, including sites in Colorado’s Middle Park, south of Steamboat Springs, he said.

One of the tools, a "stunning," oval-shaped bifacial knife that had been sharpened all the way around, is almost exactly the same shape, size and width of an obsidian knife found in a Clovis cache known as the Fenn Cache from south of Yellowstone National Park, said Bamforth. "Except for the raw material, they are almost identical," he said. "I wouldn’t stake my reputation on it, but I could almost imagine the same person making both tools."

Climatic evidence indicates the Boulder area was cooler and wetter in the late Pleistocene era and receding glaciers would have been prominent along the Front Range of Colorado, he said.

"The kind of animals that were wandering around present-day Boulder at the end of the last ice age -- elephants, camels, huge bears and ground sloths -- are creatures we would expect to see in a zoo today." "There is a magic to these artifacts," said Mahaffy. "One of the things you don’t get from just looking at them is how incredible they feel in your hand --they are almost ergonomically perfect and you can feel how they were used. It is a wonderful connection to the people who shared this same land a long, long time ago." Mahaffy said the artifacts will likely wind up in a museum except for a few of the smaller pieces, which will be reburied at the cache site.

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Upcoming Events, Nearby & Elsewhere

Wednesday, July 29, Flock of Dodos Film Screening, Denver Museum of Nature and Science."The Museum and Denver Botanic Gardens invite you to continue the celebration of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday with an encore presentation of Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. The film explores basic
aspects of evolution and uses the extinct dodo as a metaphor for what happens to those unable to change with their environment. After the screening, your host, Richard Stucky, PhD, curator of evolution and paleoecology, will offer an update on the ongoing debate and answer your questions about the volatile issues it raises." 7:00 p.m., Phipps IMAX Theater; use the IMAX Evening Entrance, $12 Museum or Gardens member/student, $15 nonmember/

Aug. 6-9, Contin-Tail rock swap, Buena Vista, CO

Aug. 14-16, Lake George Gem & Mineral Show, Lake George, CO

Thursday, Aug. 20, A Tale for Our Times: Something for Everyone About Climate Change by Susan Solomon, PhD, cochair of the Climate Science Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and senior scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory "Warming of our planet has become one of the most scrutinized issues of our time, and it’s likely that you’ve heard Solomon interviewed on the most critical points. She is widely recognized as a leader in the field of atmospheric science. She has received the National Medal of Science and been recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In this lecture geared toward anyone interested in the subject, Solomon discusses what we know, why it matters, and what the future could bring for the world and for us in Colorado. Solomon’s unique position and breadth of knowledge will help unravel the mass amount of information about global warming and reveal what is driving international policy decisions in our changing world. Bring your questions!" 7:00 p.m., Phipps IMAX Theater; use IMAX Evening Entrance, $12 member, $15 nonmember.
 

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Calendar of Events

July 12 - FMC Field Trip — “Jasper Hill”, near Buena Vista, Craig Hazelton, leader
July 25 - FMC Field Trip—Hartsel, for barite, Shaula Lee, leader
July 27 - FMC Board Meeting, 7:15 p.m., Paul Boni's house, Boulder.
Aug. 8 - Field trip to the ContinTail in Buena Vista, Shaula Lee, leader.
Aug. 22 - FMC Club Meeting, Annual Picnic, North Boulder Park, 11 a.m.
Aug. 31 - FMC Board Meeting, 7:15 p.m., Charlotte Morrison’s house, Boulder.
Sept. 24 - FMC Club Meeting, 7:00 p.m., West Boulder Senior Ctr., 9th & Arapahoe, program TBA
Sept. 26 - FMC Field Trip—Tepee Buttes, for cretaceous marine fossils, Dennis Gertenbach, leader
 

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