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Volunteers Recognized For Making Tule Springs Possible

Sep 05, 2019

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Field Notes: Mammoth Achievement

May 01, 2019

For the Tule Springs fossil park, and its striking public art, we have persistent women to thank.

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Lake Mead-Based Scientists Track Mojave Desert's 'Vital Signs'

Dec 11, 2017

A dozen National Park Service scientists based in Boulder City track the “vital signs” that reflect the environmental health of deserts in Nevada, California, and Arizona.

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Sandoval Proposes Tule Springs State Park

Jan 24, 2017

Nevada's governor is proposing setting aside property for a new state park next to a newly created national monument in the North Las Vegas area.

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Fossil Bed Monument Alive Even As Superintendent Prepares To Leave

Nov 29, 2016

Las Vegas city officials voted to get back some 21,000 Ice Age fossils from a California museum that has been holding them for more than a decade.

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Fossils Found In Clark County In 2002 Back From California

Jul 20, 2015

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fossils that were unearthed in Nevada more than a decade ago but have been on display in California are back home.

KSNV-TV in Las Vegas reports the fossil collection's return was celebrated Saturday at the Nevada State Museum.

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Ice Age Fossils Returned To Tule Springs Monument

Jul 20, 2015

The first permanent superintendent to take over the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument will be welcomed to Nevada by the return of Ice Age fossils once housed in a California museum.