Robert Gay The snout of the phytosaur Pravusuchus discovered within the original boundary of Bears Ears National Monument. “I will probably spend the rest of my career working on this site.”Meet @paleorob, who discovered that trove of crocodile-like phytosaur fossils in Bears Ears. pic.twitter.com/N5CvvF29Le — Chris D'Angelo (@c_m_dangelo) March 27, 2018HuffPost talked to Gay this week at the first of two public scoping meetings the federal government held to receive input on managing what remains of Bears Ears National Monument. Trump’s December announcement cut Bears Ears by 85 percent, to just over 200,000 acres, opening the door for new mining, drilling and other development on lands now left outside of the monument. Bears Ears “preserves a unique slice of American history and pre-history dating back almost to the dawn of life on land,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post March 29, 2018 01:07 UTC