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Dinosaur National MonumentView of Echo Park from Harpers Corner Trail
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Dinosaur National Monument
For Teachers

Dinosaur National Monument offers a great learning opportunity for students through self-guided activities or ranger-guided activities.  Activity topics include, but are not limited to:

  • dinosaur and other fossils
  • geology
  • river ecology
  • desert shrub ecosystem
  • Fremont Culture
  • pioneer homesteading

For more information contact Carla Beasley at (435) 781-7702 or by e-mail.

 
Peregrine chicks on cliff.  

Did You Know?
A population of peregrine falcons has been established at Dinosaur National Monument. The park's rugged canyons make ideal habitat for the once endangered raptor. Fossils show that dinosaurs evolved into birds--and so still live in modified form at Dinosaur.

Last Updated: March 12, 2009 at 11:26 EST