Fremont County Stones ‘n’ Bones

In early June of 1992 Bryan Small with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science was looking for fossils in the Garden Park Fossil Area when he found a neck bone of a Stegosaurus.

Dall DeWeese first became familiar with dinosaur excavation in the late 1880’s. He was interested in the outdoors and in 1915 he found dinosaur bones.

Contact Dan Grenard at [email protected] to schedule this program. The program requires a screen and projector. Dan provides powerpoint and other materials.

FCSnB has developed the fossil box program to tie in with Colorado curriculum standards.  We hope to include field trips in the future. Younger students in Pueblo and Cañon City are treated to scaled down versions of Boot Camp

This is a powerpoint type presentation with some supportive hands on materials and is geared toward the 4th or 5th grade level utilizing document camera type equipment available in most Fremont County classrooms.

This presentation geared for 4th graders will use modern skulls and bones to help us understand fossil bones.  A wide range of modern skulls and bones will provide a basic understanding

This program is under the direction of Dr. Mildred Wintz and it is both fun and very lively.  Dan Grenard, Mary Chamberlain, and Cindy Smith may assist with this presentation.

Stones ‘n Bones of Fremont County traditionally presents two or three Fossil Boot Camp classes each year for school age students and adults. With COVID, that has proven a little difficult

Fremont Stones ‘n Bones introduced 16 Pueblo Community College students to fossils in Steve Wolfe’s Historical Geology class. 

“What do paleontologists do?” is the question we were asked to help answer for 50 second graders at Pueblo, Colorado’s newest elementary school on January 16, 2020.

Dr. Sue Ware returned to the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience for the second time, to the delight of 27 community members. She presented a program entitled “From your Campfire to your Bed: The Evolution, Importance & Relationship between Dogs and Humans”.

For the 5th straight year, Stones ‘n Bones presented Fossil Boot Camp to 31 senior citizens in the Fremont County community. 

What happens when an entire elementary school reads the same book, The Enormous Egg, and asks Fremont County Stones and Bones to come in to help with the family night to celebrate the reading? A two-hour evening full of paleontology learning!

How does Steve Wolfe, Historical Geology instructor at PCC-Fremont Campus, prepare his students for field season observations? One way is by introducing them to fossils

The Pioche Formation of eastern Nevada is world famous for its amazing preservation of trilobites. Very old trilobites, from the Lower Cambrian (542 – 521 million years old), almost the oldest on record.

There are many ways to appreciate rocks.  Many of us notice them simply for their color, texture and shape, irresistible and raw in nature.

Many of us are familiar with the high preservation of insects and leaves in the Green River Formation, a Colorado lagerstätte well known for field trips yielding magnificent fossils.

Mary Chamberlain of Fremont County Stones ‘n Bones put together a gift basket for the third annual Epsilon Sigma Alpha (ESA) Auction, sponsored by our local Cañon City Beta Zeta Chapter, held October 6, 2018.

Two of Fremont County’s historic quarries are featured in a new display at the Fremont County Administration Building in Cañon City. Loretta Bailey and her daughter Kimberly developed a delightful exhibit focusing on the Mica Lode Quarry.

Thirty eight young, would-be paleontologists between the ages of 3 and 11 years old gathered at the Penrose Community Library in June to learn about and examine fossils, many found beneath our feet in Fremont County.

Dr. Sue Ware, forensic paleontologist and Research Associate with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, presented “Skeleton Crew: Learning About Animal Bones and What They Do” at the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience on May 12, 2018.

2018 - Fossil Boot Camp 101 Stones ‘n Bones reached more than 40 community members interested in the introductory Fossil Boot Camp classes offered to the Cañon City Geology Club (CCGC) and to the PCC Mini-College in March of 2018. Students with no familiarity with fossils joined others who had…

Dinosaurs have returned to Cañon City, including a few that haven’t shown up in the fossil record previously. Anatomically correct they aren’t, but inspirational we hope they will be.

Today we were treated to an excellent Training Session on Corals by Loretta Bailey, who has been a long-time ammonite and baculite fossil collector on Spud Hill, north of Central & Orchard in Cañon City.

BBC Provides International Exposure for the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience Museum Fremont County Stones ‘n Bones, was delighted to be part of a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) filming experience on August 7, 2016 at Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience, the new dinosaur museum eight miles west of Cañon City on US-50.…

Cañon City welcomed a seven-year-old visitor from Japan last week. Her name is Sola; she is completely bilingual and she is quite the naturalist.

Fremont Stones ‘n Bones presented Fossil Boot Camp to seniors at the mini-college at the Pueblo Community College – Fremont Campus (PCC) on March 22, 2016.