Friends of Petrified Forest National Park
Working Together We Can Make a Difference
When park paleontologist Dr. Bill Parker's group took off the morning of August 8th, they all had high hopes for finding fossils. After all, they had all signed up for his "Dig Fossils for a Day" class with the Petrified Forest Field Institute …
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In the last few weeks there have been significant improvements to the on-line presence of the Petrified Forest community. Thanks to volunteer Denise Traver, the Friends of Petrified Forest and the Petrified Forest Field Institute have new homes on …
Petrified Forest National Park, and many other park areas around the country, relies heavily on the good services provided by volunteers. In our fiscal year 2014, volunteers contributed over 15,000 hours of work to Petrified Forest, the equivalent of …
Hi all - We hope your winter was tolerable and that you were not where the bad weather was. We are working on a newsletter for the spring and it's time to start thinking about our spring volunteer day. April 20-24 is National Park Week and we …
Continue Reading about Petrified Forest Spring Volunteer Day
I started this Blog with a piece about how we are thinking and talking about the park differently, how we are creating new opportunities for visitors to enjoy the park and trying to be more welcoming. One way to measure whether we are having an …
At the end of November, Petrified Forest National Park will lose two icon employees to retirement – Bobby and Johnnie Morris. These brothers started working at Petrified Forest in 1962 – the same year it changed from a National Monument to a National …
