E-Mail Notifications

If you’d like to get e-mail notification about upcoming MVAS field trips, please notify Mark Pendleton.  Just send an e-mail to: mpndltn@gmail.com and put “MVAS Field Trips” in the subject line.  Put your name and e-mail address in the message and you will be notified of future field trips.

Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Offered by BLM)

The Prehistoric Trackways National Monument was established in 2009 to conserve, protect, and enhance the unique and nationally important paleontological, scientific, educational, scenic, and recreational resources and values of the Robledo Mountains in southern New Mexico. The Monument includes a major deposit of Paleozoic Era fossilized footprint megatrackways within approximately 5,280 acres.

The trackways contain footprints of numerous amphibians, reptiles, and insects (including previously unknown species), plants, and petrified wood dating back 280 million years, which collectively provide new opportunities to understand animal behaviors and environments from a time predating dinosaurs. The site contains the most scientifically significant Early Permian track sites in the world.

If your are interested in visiting the Trackways, the BLM is offering several field trips in the spring of 2012.  For dates, times and directions, please visit their website at Prehistoric Trackways Nat’l Monument.