This week marked the 10th anniversary of President Barack Obama signing into law the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument.
This is 23,000 acres north of Las Vegas near Aliante casino and housing development. The area is rich in Ice Age fossils from 100,000-12,500 years ago.
That includes extinct mammoths, lions, camels bison, dire wolves and many others. It used to be a wetland area. So many mammoths have been found, it’s been called “mammoth central.”
Getting Tule Springs named as a National Monument was no small task. To keep it and maintain it as an educational and research space will be somewhat of a struggle, as the city of North Las Vegas has approved some substantial development projects nearby.
Protectors of Tule Springs was the group that worked for years to get the national monument designation.
Guest: Sherri Grotheer, president, Protectors of Tule Springs
