J #329 - Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (Nevada)
12-7-17
City Beat - MAYOR TOURS FOSSILE BEDS AT TULE SPRINGS
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Outdoor Nevada | Fossil Hunting
Dr. Josh Bonde takes us fossil hunting at Tule Springs. ON102Archaeology
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A TREASURE TROVE OF ICE-AGED RUINS TUCKED AWAY IN AN URBAN DESERT -- TULE SPRINGS IS ON THE BRINK OF BECOMING A NATIONAL MONUMENT. BUT THIS MAJESTIC SCENERY WAS ONCE AT RISK OF BEING LEVELED. MAKING WAY FOR NEW HOMES AND DEVELOPMENT. AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF FIGHTING... A GRID-LOCKED CONGRESS PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD, IN PART, PROTECT THIS 22-THOUSAND ACRE FOSSIL BED. THAT NEXT PHASE, A BRIGHT ONE FOR THE FOLKS WHO WORKED TOWARD THIS DAY FOR SO LONG. PERHAPS, A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR UNIVERSITY-BASED RESEARCH AS WELL. ASIDE FROM ACADEMIC INTERESTS, THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF TULE SPRINGS IS UNDENIABLE.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological artifacts.The 22,650-acre monument is administered by the National Park Service.The national monument is located in the Upper Las Vegas Wash and protects part of the Tule Springs.The wash area also includes several patches of the rare Las Vegas bear poppy.
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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries. The 22,650-acre (9,170 ha) monument is administered by the National Park Service.The national monument is located in the Upper Las Vegas Wash and protects part of the Tule Springs. The wash area also includes several patches of the rare Las Vegas bear poppy. The land was designated after a local campaign to permanently protect the landscape as a national monument.
The Walker River State Recreation Area and Tule Springs State Park
Governor Brian Sandoval is proud to announce the Explore Your Nevada Initiative to enhance our outdoor experiences in the Silver State.
The centerpiece of the Initiative is the addition to the State Park System of three historic ranch properties located along the East Walker River in Lyon County. Last year, a non-profit organization approached the State with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transfer these ranches, valued at $8 million to Nevada, for free. This land, to be known as the Walker River State Recreation Area, unlocks an unprecedented 12,000 acres of ranchland and opens access to 28 miles of the East Walker River to all of us. In the Governor’s budget, there is funding to provide for the first phase of facilities at the park for camping, fishing, rafting, hiking and cabin rentals.
The Governor is also proposing the creation of the new Tule Springs State Park, located adjacent to the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, in North Las Vegas. Our State Parks team has worked closely with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to document mammoth and other ice age fossils. Together we can develop Tule Springs State Park into a special destination for all ages to learn about Nevada’s unique prehistoric habitat.
Nevada State Fossils Are Coming Home
Roughly 20,000 ice age fossils that were excavated from Las Vegas’ own Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and surrounding areas in Nevada, but have been stored in California museums for the past 20 years, finally came home to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum.
Tule Springs in Summer
A follow up to my Tule Springs in Winter video to show the trees in full leaf at Tule Springs in the Floyd Lamb State Park in northwest Las Vegas. Another stellar performance from my DJI Mavic Pro.
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Dr. Richard Shutler Jr., Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
We went to Tule Springs in the fall of 1962 with an interdisciplinary group to check out the claims that had been going on for that site for about thirty years. In 1933, Findlay Hunter from the American Museum of Natural History was surveying in the area and he found what he thought was some charcoal, some obsidian flake and some camel, horse, and bison bones, and he collected the charcoal. Years later when radiocarbon dating had been invented, he sent it to Dr. Libby in Los Angeles and got a date of 28,000 years, which really shook up the people that were interested in that subject!
Then Dr. Raymond Harrington from the Southwest Museum went out to do some more checking in the same area Findlay Hunter worked in and he found some more charcoal and a couple of bones that he thought had been worked. That was saved until the radiocarbon dating system was available, and they got a date of 23,800 years, but it turned out to be a mixed sample from some other site.
In the spring of 1962, Dr. Willard F. Libby held a conference in southern California of people interested in Early Man Studies, to sort out exactly what was going on. These claims of ancient occupants of the area had begun to accumulate, but nobody had enough information to solve any problems. At the end of that conference it was decided that Tule Springs would be the ideal place to carry on because we knew there was a lot of stuff there. It was recommended by Dr. Robert F. Heizer of Berkeley that we have an interdisciplinary study at Tule Springs with me in charge. At that time, I was at the Nevada State Museum. We very quickly wrote up a request for money from the National Science Foundation which we got, and we showed up at the Tule Springs site (10 miles west of Las Vegas) on October 1, 1962. We had a crew of palynologists, geologists, Dr. Vance Haynes (who went on to be a great authority on Early Man in the New World), a number of students, and paleontologists and so forth. It was totally an interdisciplinary study.
The outcome was that we were unable to substantiate the 23,000 or 28,000 year old dates for the occupancy of people there. But we did find a lot of fossils, camel, horse, mammoth and bison that were 40,000 years old and were much deeper in the stratigraphy. We did obtain what I think are three bone artifacts which date between 12,000 and 13,000 years. This fits right in with all the claims that are coming out now - 13,000 years at Meadowcroft, 13,000 at Monte Verde, places like that. I think we have to take another look.
To accomplish what we did we were able to obtain the world’s two largest bulldozers – a DC25 and DC30, owned by the Caterpillar company.
We were able to criss-cross the valley with stratigraphic trenches up to thirty feet deep and the width of the blade on the bulldozer. With that, Vance Haynes was able to develop a complete stratigraphic sequence for the Tule Springs valley. We ended up with a thick publication and I think it was a good experience for the students and everyone involved. Now that they seem to think that the Clovis wall has really been broken, I’m going to have to go back and have a look at our 13,000 year old “bone artifacts”.
Tule Springs Lake Ranch at Floyd Lamb State Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, 360 Degree View 1
This is a 360 degree view of Tule Springs Lake at Tule Springs Ranch in Floyd Lamb State Park, near the intersection of North Durango Rd and Brent Lane. There are four lakes in the
park: Tule Springs Lake, Cottonwood Lake, Desert Willow Lake, and Mulberry Lake. Fishing is allowed at the lakes. The Tule Springs Archaeological Site and buildings at the 1940's eraTule Springs Ranch, are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Address: 9200 Tule Springs Road, Las Vegas, NV 89131
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Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs Las Vegas Nevada
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Lakes at Tule Springs Ranch in Floyd Lamb State Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, View 1
This is a tractor tour of the lakes at Tule Springs Ranch at Floyd Lamb State Park, near the intersection of North Durango Rd and Brent Lane. There are four lakes in the park: Tule Springs Lake, Cottonwood Lake, Desert Willow Lake, and Mulberry Lake. Fishing is allowed at the lakes. The Tule Springs Archaeological Site and buildings at the 1940's eraTule Springs Ranch, are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Address: 9200 Tule Springs Road, Las Vegas, NV 89131
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valley of fire state park in winter
It stopped raining. The veil of clouds are covering the face of the mountains and it is getting colder. Despite all the circumstances, we are taking a walk.
50 miles northeast of Las Vegas lies Valley of Fire State Park. It's natural phenomenon includes unique range of rocks and canyon. So lets discover valley of fire state park.
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Protectors of Tule Springs
The Upper Las Vegas Wash, AKA Tule Springs, needs to be preserved and protected for future generations.
It is an area that contains hundreds of identified fossil sites of ancient Ice Age animals such as mammoths, ground sloths, camels and bison, as well as native primitive peoples.
It is also one of the last remaining areas where one can find the Bear-Paw Poppy and the Las Vegas Buckwheat, which are endangered plant species.
We don't need another housing development, strip mall or highway in this area, yet, there are those who would do that, if we let them. The Protectors of Tule Springs will not let them. We are the Public Residents of this area.
We want to create an Ice Age Park with a visitor center, hiking trails, picnic areas and study areas, so that adults and children alike can learn and marvel at the natural wonders of Tule Springs.
We are ready to be stewards of this land that will be World renowned in Paleontological circles, a must see tourist attraction and an area that Nevadans can take pride in having preserved.
You can help us in that endeavor at: tulespringslv.com
Nevada Dinosaurs
This is a 3 minute video about the new discovery of the first dinosaurs fossils in Nevada. The information was presented to the Nevada Friends of Paleontoloty Society in April of 2007
Valley of Fire Fossils
Could the fossils have been inspiration for some the Valley of fire petroglyphs?