Management

Grey clouds above a butte with sagebrush in the foreground.
Fossil Butte is the geological feature the monument was named after.

The monument's enabling legislation, signed on October 23, 1972 by President Richard M. Nixon, set aside for NPS management, a portion of the widespread Green River Formation. The monument's management documents guide the day-to-day operation in the effort "...to preserve for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations outstanding paleontological sites and related geological phenomena, and to provide for the display and interpretation of scientific specimens."

The full enabling legislation can be found in Appendix A of our 2017 Foundation Document.

 

Last updated: July 20, 2023

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P.O. Box 592
Kemmerer, WY 83101

Phone:

307 877-4455

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