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Petrified Forest’s strangely beautiful landscape has attracted people for thousands of years, but it has only been the last 140 years that visitors have made a photographic record of their visits. Park staff member William Gibson Parker has …
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Petrified Forest, AZ – Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) has served as a natural laboratory for research in Late Triassic paleontology and geology for nearly 100 years. With its vast exposures of the fossil-rich Chinle Formation, PEFO offers …
We are happy to welcome Jeannine McElveen as the new superintendent at Petrified Forest National Park. McElveen has worked for the National Park Service for over 20 years, most recently as the superintendent of Hovenweep and Natural …
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Petrified Forest, AZ – In a research article published today in Biology Letters, a collaborative group of paleontologists from Virginia Tech, the Florida Museum of Natural History, and Petrified Forest National Park, led by Dr. Michelle Stocker, …
Petrified Forest National Park was authorized to more than double in size through the Petrified Forest Expansion Act of 2004. Since that time, the park has acquired over 53,000 acres (41% of authorized expansion acreage) through transfer from BLM …
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On August 25, Petrified Forest hosted groups of citizen scientists led by subject matter experts to tally all the various living things they could encounter during a 24-hour period, much like the park did in 2014 and 2016. This was our biggest …
