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Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center
In the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming Click on links below for more information! |
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Our Board of Directors Chairman of the Board Cliff Manuel, Museum
Director Vice Chairman John Coyne, Jr.,
Retired CEO Big Horn Federal
S&L Secretary & Treasurer M. Scott McColloch, Attorney at Law Member Bruce Bergstrom, CPA Member Ron Fiene, Owner Rons
Food Farm Member Rick Magstadt, V. P. Manufacturing WYO-BEN, INC. Member Dr. Randy E. Waddell,
Optometrist Bighorn Basin Geoscience Center,
Inc. 537 Greybull Avenue Greybull, WY 82426 Phone: (307) 765-2286 or (888) 224-3590 toll free e-mail: cliff@bbgeoscience.org
CONTACT Cliff Manuel, Chairman 537 Greybull Avenue Greybull, WY 82426 Phone: (307) 765-2286 or (888) 224-3590 toll
free Email: cliff@bbgeoscience.org |
The Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center is an
approved non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the study,
conservation & appropriate display of the northern Bighorn Basin’s
natural resources, and to the promotion of geoscience
and local historical and educational activities, through exhibits and
educational materials for educators, geoscientists, tourists and the people
of Wyoming. Our
Situation The
northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming contains extensively documented fossil
deposits dating 550 million years ago (Cambrian Period) to the present. These
include world famous localities with extensive fossil deposits that contain
dinosaur bones, eggshells and trackways, as well as
primitive mammal fossils. These deposits are located on privately held land
as well as on state and federal land. Major fossil
discoveries have been, and are currently being, collected and removed from
this part of the Bighorn Basin because suitable preparation, storage and
display facilities do not exist in our area. Professional
scientists, including world famous geologists, paleontologists and
anthropologists, have conducted research activities in this area for over 100
years. These research activities are only loosely coordinated among entities,
and thus the rich natural resources of the area remain relatively unknown to
the people of Wyoming. More importantly, the relationship of these resources
and the Bighorn Basin remains disconnected in the minds of the world. The
Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center will include comprehensive displays which
describe and explain the paleogeolographic history
of the basin and will feature major fossil discoveries from the Bighorn Basin
of Wyoming, displayed in the context of the environment that was prevalent in
the timeframe the animals existed. The planned Bighorn
Basin GeoScience Center is located in Greybull, Wyoming, approximately
halfway between the Black Hills of South Dakota and the east entrance to
Yellowstone National Park. It is situated in the midst of some of the most
significant and impressive fossil-bearing deposits in North America. The
major goal of the Bighorn Basin Geoscience Center
is to establish a permanent facility that will serve as a museum and
interpretive center for Bighorn Basin natural resources, including major
fossil discoveries from this part of Wyoming.
The Center will include comprehensive displays which
describe and explain the paleographic history of the basin and will feature
major fossil discoveries from the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, displayed in the
context of the environment that was prevalent in the timeframe the animals
existed. The
Center has opened a storefront location in downtown Greybull, Wyoming to
provide a physical presence until a new museum building is funded and
erected. The new facility includes a museum to house some of our fossils and
reproductions, and a combination art gallery/education room. The Center is
also the home of Lisa's Homespun Gifts!
Stop by and visit
with us when you are in our area! This
website will be updated periodically to reflect progress and describe how you
and other interested visitors to this site can be active participants and
support this endeavor. CONTACTS Cliff Manuel, Museum Director 537 Greybull Avenue Greybull, WY 82426 Phone: (307) 765-2286 or (888) 224-3590 toll free Email: cliff@bbgeoscience.org Julie Bilbrey 537 Greybull Avenue Greybull, WY 82426 Email: julie@bbgeoscience.org Copyright © 2013 Bighorn Basin Geoscience
Center. All rights reserved
(except for images and text as noted) Last updated: January 23, 2013 Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center ~
537 Greybull Avenue ~ Greybull, Wyoming 82426 Web site maintenance by: Cliff Manuel
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