Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
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Trackways National Monument
At Trackways National Monument, experts have excavated the best examples of Paleozoic era plants and animals on the planet.
These different types of fossils are the best preserved and the most significant of their kind in the world, said Jerry MacDonald of New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
MacDonald has made his life's work searching for and excavating prehistoric fossils in the Robledo Mountains just outside Las Cruces New Mexico. His discoveries, starting in the early 1980s, helped to establish the area as the 5,200-acre Trackways National Monument in 2009.
It's a concentrated fossil deposit that not only has track-ways but it has petrified wood, fossil leaves, marine fossils, he said And all of these things represent a window to the past.
This public land in the American Southwest desert is one of the few places on Earth where evidence of the Permian period is exposed. The creatures who left these tracks in the mud almost 300 million years ago occupy a much different version of New Mexico.
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:30 1 Fossils
00:02:28 2 Geology
00:03:02 3 Flora and fauna
00:03:36 4 Climate
00:04:06 5 Discovery
00:05:06 6 Monument designation
00:05:57 7 Recreation
00:06:29 8 See also
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Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is a national monument in the Robledo Mountains of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, near the city of Las Cruces. The monument's Paleozoic Era fossils are on 5,255 acres (2,127 ha) of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. It became the 100th active U.S. national monument when it was designated on March 30, 2009.
HOPPIN JALAPENO AND BELLPEPPER TRAILS @ PREHISTORIC TRACKWAYS in LAS CRUCES, NM.
2 days of wheelin at the PREHISTORIC TRACKWAYS in Las Cruces, NM.
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Marine Fossils
280 million years ago Las Cruces, NM would have been sea front property. Learn from Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology at New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, about how the marine fossils in Prehistoric Trackways National Monument paint a very different picture of the ancient landscape than the desert environment that is there today.
Robledo Mountain Geology
Along with the fossils in Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, the geology in the monument tells the story of the world's history. Hear about these geological layers and what they have to say from Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology form New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
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Jared Andersen takes us to the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
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BLM perspective MPEG 4
The Bureau of Land Management is excited about having this paleontological jewel of a monument under its management. What goes into the establishment of a national monument? What are the plans for the future of the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument? Hear the answers to these questions and more from BLMers themselves.
PTNM Tracks
Explore some of the fossilized tracks with Jerry MacDonald. Learn about how these tracks were made and about the creatures that made them.
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Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument | Wikipedia audio article
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Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
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00:01:11 2 Protected areas
00:02:31 3 Campaign for establishment
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The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument is a United States National Monument in the state of New Mexico, managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
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