Recently, I was out on a project in the southern panhandle for the Nebraska Highway Salve program. We were interviewed for an article in the Scottsbluff Star-Herald. The article can be seen at http://www.starherald.com/articles/2009/09/05/news/local_news/doc4aa1db429b5d9084523428.txt
As always the news isn’t completely accurate. The tusk in this article didn’t fall out of a bucket, but it was spotted in the bucket by Shane. The Ash bed listed has not been analyzed and it may be 6 million years old. Also, the jacket to the fossil may be between 1500 and 2000 lbs.
This article came towards the end of our time in the field (about 1 full month). We collected a series of other fossil resources on this trip, including the remains of bone-crushing dogs, camels, small carnivores, lizards, rabbits, other rodents, and of course turtles and tortoises (which we have about three species of now). It was an adventure in collecting which involved three thunderstorms, a rattle snake, and many long hours of shoveling.
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