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Limited municipal budgets can make it hard to keep the lights on in a museum, and funding for the collection, curation and study of fossils doesn’t always match up with rural areas that contain many fossils, writes Adam Larson.
It took time for the West to stake its claim to keeping some fossil finds at home. Countless fossils have been exhumed in Wyoming since the late 19th century, but the University of Wyoming Geological Museum didn’t have any Wyoming dinosaur fossils until 1961.
The prehistoric past can perk up the present. When woolly mammoth bones were found in my hometown in Wisconsin years ago, they became the centerpiece of one of our local museums. Today, they continue to.
Writer Adam Larson finds that when small towns in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota showcase locally found dinosaur and mammoth bones, everyone wins: tourists, locals and museums.