Est. June 3, 1961
Experience Life
Three Billion Years In The Making July 2017
Raptor Review
Issue 47
A quarterly publication for your information and enjoyment From the Director By Dr. Ken Carpenter The Dimetrodon exhibit is finished and is getting great reviews from visitors. The exhibit features eastern Utah The big news from the museum, which you have prob299–252 million years ago and presents the evidence for ably read in the newspapers, is that the museum is now how we know what the environment was like back then. the permanent custodian of the Ephraim P. and Dorothy Still to come are exhibits centered around the CleveHickman Pectol collection of artifacts. These are the land-Lloyd dinosaur pit. It will feature an actual fossilized artifacts that occupy a large part of the mezzanine in ant nest collected near the Henry Mountains. The Lost archaeology and came from the borderlands between Tracks photo documentary show in the changing exhibthe Fremont and Ancient Puebloan (Anasazi) cultures. its gallery a success through Sandra Budd’s clever blend We are honored that the descendants of the Pectols have of the photographs of dinosaur tracks and casts from our entrusted us with the collection. Tim and I first talked to collections. Next up is Clubs, Horns and Shields, a blend the family a year and a half ago about the collection and of various prehistoric animals that sported body defenshow we would like to incorporate their grandparent's es. artifacts into a larger story of the prehistoric Indians of Attendance was very high in April and May when we Utah. This is part of a larger plan of having fossils and were inundated with our annual school groups. Thanks artifacts in the museum be more than just showy objects. to the staff for leading several successful tours. We will be incorporating some of the artifacts into a new I thank all of you for your membership and support of exhibit now being built (literally) centered around the the museum. Watch for all the great changes coming in Five Kivas Ruin, a cliff dwelling south of Blanding. We 2017! have a long term loan for exhibit of some of the artifacts that were excavated at Five Kivas in the 1970s and will use some of the Pectol objects to supplement the story.
The finished Dimetrodon case which also talks about the Permian of Eastern Utah.
Anouncement Tim and Katy examining a figurine cradle board from the Pectol collection.
The newsletter is going digital, look for an email or letter from Shai with details on this exciting change.