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Kimberly, OR 97848
Phone: (541)987-2333
Contact: Chief of Visitor Services
Email:
Hours: Museums’ hours vary throughout the year. The Thomas Condon Paleontology Center’s minimum hours are 9 am to 4 pm seven days a week, year around; closed on winter Federal holidays.
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Oregon Museums Association / Eastern Oregon / John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
http://www.nps.gov/joda/
Admission: Free, donations welcome
Among the valleys and bluffs of eastern Oregon is buried a spectacular fossil record, an archive of life throughout the Age of Mammals. Here National Park Service scientists and visiting scientists have unearthed chapters of the fossil record of plants and animals extending back from 6 to 54 million years. The John Day Fossil Beds are spread out over a 20,000 square miles area of eastern Oregon.
The national monument is divided into three units; the Sheep Rock Unit, Painted Hills Unit, and Clarno Unit, each with its own unique landscape and fossil history. The Sheep Rock Unit is the location of the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center, which serves as a research center and visitor center. A remarkable fossil museum is featured at the center. Across the highway from the center is the James Cant Ranch Historic District. The ranch house features a museum on the human history of the area, from the local American Indian tribes up through the sheep ranchers and wool industry of the region.
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