Saved in Time: The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

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135 Index  Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. affidavit, 56, 70 Allott, Gordon (senator), 33; field visit of, 50; and hearings, 44; and monument facilities, 92; and 6,000-acre monument, 34–35, 51 Aspinall, Wayne (representative), 25, 28, 32, 34, 43, 68, 74; and support for S. 912, 75 Baker, John: and land purchase, 80–82; and petrified forest rivalry, 13–15 Barnes, M. L., 56 Beidleman, Richard, 42, 48, 65; and book burning, 78 Bermingham, John (state senator), 42; testimony of, 45 Bible, Alan (senator): field visit of, 50, 51, 53; and hearings, 44, 46, 49 “Big Stump,” 10, 11, 12, 34, 52, 109, plate 6 Blue, Claude R., 56, 58–60, 65 Bradley, Richard, 42; testimony of, 48–49 Breitenstein, Jean S., 60–62, 70 brontothere, xxiii, 111, 115, plate 8 Brown, Estelle, 23; field trips of, 26–27 Brown, F. Martin, 85 Brues, C. T., 6, 8 Buchan, Holly, 68, 73 bulldozers, 42, 58–60, 64, 72–74, 74 bumper stickers, 66 Burns, Joe, 45 Burton, Mary, 68, 72 Cain, Stanley, 33–34 Carpenter, Frank, 4, 7, 9 Carter, Luther, 40 Cedrelospermum, 110, 114 Central Enterprises Company of Colorado Springs, 38; and land resale, 39 Chenoweth, J. Edgar (representative), 24 Chilson, G. Hatfield (judge), 55; and hearing, 68–70, 72, 98; judgment of, 58–59, 61 Chronic, John, 42, 48 Clare family, 14, 108 climate change, global, 114; indicated by plants, 113 136 index Cockerell, T. D. A., 5, 6, 8, 101; quotes by, 6, 87–88 Colorado College, 10, 14, 25, 42, 48, 65 Colorado Midland Railroad, 10; and wildflower excursions, 11, 12, 14 Colorado Mountain Club, 18, 25, 26, 42, 51, plate 2; and Conservation Committee, 27; and first Open Space Conference, 26; and 28 Colorado Mountain Estates, 19, 36, 39 Colorado Open Space Coordinating Council (COSCC), xxvi, 26–27, 31–33, 36, 42, 48, 50, 53, 64, 67, 77 Colorado Petrified Forest, 12, 14, 23, 32, 49, 81, 92 conservation movement, xxv, 14–16, 18, 26, 66–67, 101 Cooper, Sandy: and fund raising, 66 Cope, Edmund Drinker, 2, 3, 8 Coplen, John, 12, 15 COSCC. See Colorado Open Space Coordinating Council Costello, James, 1, 2 Crystal Peak Estates, 28, 39 DDT, 40, 96, 133 Dead Sea Scrolls, xxi, 46, 61, 76 Defenders of Florissant, Inc.: fund raising and, 66–67, 77, 100; legal involvement of, 53, 55, 58–60, 62, 98; members of, 41–43, 62, 97, 99, 101; and the press, 89, 100 Defenders of Florissant v. Park Land Company, xxvi Denver Audubon Society, 36, 55, 67, 132 Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 101 Denver Post, 14, 27–28, 51, 65, 72, 77 Dinosaur National Monument, 14, 24, 58, 69, 96 Disney, Lillian, 14 Disney, Walt, 14, 83 Ditmar, Joanne, 77 Dominick, Peter (senator), 44, 74; proposed legislation by, 33–34, 92 Earth Day, first, 97 Eberle, Jaelyn, 89 EDF. See Environmental Defense Fund El Pomar Foundation, 42 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), 40, 96, 97 environmental movement, 95 Evanoff, Emmett, 90, 101, 107 Evans, Frank (representative), 68, 74; proposed legislation by, 24, 27, 30–31, 34 Fagopsis, 6, 110, 114, 127 Farnsworth, John, 14 Flader, Susan, 66 Florissant ecosystem, 112, 113, 115, plate 1 Florissant Formation, 29, 41, 107–8, plate 9 Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, 79, 97, 94, 115; rangers of, 91, 96 Florissant fossil quarry, 14, 108 Florissantia, 110 Fontan, J. R., 56 Fountain Valley School, 85 Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc., 93, 103 fund raising, 42–43, 66, 67; at shopping malls, 66 Gamer, Eleanor, 25 Gibson, Dan, 62–63 Gregg, A. W., 38 Gregg tract, 37, 55, 57, 59, 64, 68, 81; extents of, 39, 42, 52; ownership of, 37–38; resale value of, 42, 50, 60 index 137 Guffey Volcano, 106–8, 114, plates 7, 8, 9, 10 Hansen, Roger P., 26–27, 34, 36, 64, 67, 70, 97, 101, 130; and Defenders of Florissant, 42–43; and private property rights, 99; and travel to Washington, D.C., 53, 64 Hartzog, George, 43 Harvard University, 4–5, 7, 8–9, 86 Hayden Survey, xxi, 2, 5, 7–8 Henderson, David, 13, 15, 93 Henderson, Ira, 13, 15, 93 Hickey, John J. (associate justice), 60, 62, 70 Hill, Adam, 4, 9, 10, 11 Hill, Charlotte, 3; contributions to science by, 3–5, 9, 10, 12, 83, 86, 101; property of, 12; and recent acknowledgment , 83, 86, 91 Hilliard, Ed, 26 Hornbek, Adeline...