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

Illustrations

ix ix Illustrations Figures   Figure 0.1 Florissant lake beds map xx Figure 0.2 Contemporary Florissant valley xxiii Figure 0.3 Children at the “Redwood Trio” xxvii Figure 1.1 Leo Lesquereux 2 Figure 1.2 Charlotte Hill 3 Figure 1.3 Samuel Scudder 4 Figure 1.4 Samuel Scudder’s Coleoptera plate 5 Figure 1.5 T. D. A. Cockerell 6 Figure 1.6 Harry D. MacGinitie 7 Figure 1.7 Early visitors at the “Big Stump” 11 Figure 1.8 Fossil collectors 11 Figure 2.1 Colorado Mountain Estates 19 Figure 2.2 Bettie Willard 20 Figure 2.3 Florissant fossil pollen 22 Figure 2.4 Collecting at the “fish beds” 23 Figure 2.5 Agnes and Palmer J. Singer 23 Figure 2.6 A Colorado Mountain Club family 25 Figure 2.7 The Snares with Sequoia fossil 27 Figure 2.8 Proposed monument boundaries 32 Figure 2.9 Estella Leopold distributing information 36 Figure 3.1 Gregg tract 39 Figure 3.2 The Yannacones collecting fossils 41 Figure 3.3  Gordon Allott and Alan Bible after the Florissant field hearings 50 x Illustrations Figure 3.4 Alan Bible, Estella Leopold, and Bettie Willard 51 Figure 3.5 Big Stump visitors, 1969 52 Figure 3.6 Harry D. MacGinitie and Alan Bible 53 Figure 3.7 Victor Yannacone at conference 53 Figure 4.1 Dick Lamm 56 Figure 4.2 Photo from victory article in Rocky Mountain News 62 Figure 4.3 “Tools for the Job” cartoon 63 Figure 4.4 Roger Hansen 64 Figure 5.1 Florissant real estate 66 Figure 5.2 “Fossils Go to Court” flyer 67 Figure 5.3 Vim Crane Wright 67 Figure 5.4 Pat Oliphant cartoon 74 Figure 6.1 Map of the monument 80 Figure 6.2 Map of private land tracts 80 Figure 6.3 Harry D. MacGinitie, 1979 84 Figure 6.4 Excavation 87 Figure 6.5 Collections work 88 Figure 7.1 Chief Justice Alfred P. Murrah 97 Figure 7.2 Winter in the valley 99 Figure 7.3 Monument entrance 103 Figure A.1 Florissant stratigraphy 107 Figure A.2 Lower shale unit at Florissant Fossil Quarry 108 Figure A.3 Paper shale 109 Figure A.4 Map of Florissant genera today 112 Tables Table 1.1 Significant historical contributors to Florissant paleontology 8 Table 6.1 Tracts of private land acquired to form Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument 81 xi Illustrations Color Plates following page 68 Plate 1 Contemporary Florissant valley Plate 2 Colorado Mountain Club collectors Plate 3 Victor Yannacone collecting in 1969 Plate 4 Twenty-fifth anniversary of the monument Plate 5 Fortieth anniversary of the monument Plate 6 Petrified stumps Plate 7 Streamside forest and mudflow reconstructions Plate 8 Ancient Lake Florissant reconstruction Plate 9 Geologic map Plate 10 Cross section of Guffey Volcano Plate 11 Fossil plants Plate 12 Fossil insects Plate 13 Fossil vertebrates ...