Re: Museum of Northern Arizona fossils may go to Utah

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dinonaut@emerytelcom.net writes:    
 
<   Is this such a bad thing if it happens? >
It is if you live in the Flagstaff area and want to see dinosaur fossils or 
collections in a museum.

< I know all of these Utah
paleontologists personally, >
Me too.

< and they are on the cutting edge of the science.>
No criticism of the Utah paleontologists, except for the fact that they 
aren't in Arizona.  And the paleontology programs aren't in Nebraska and are 
being 
curtailed in Raleigh, etc.

< It is to bad that the College of Northern Arizona is closing it's geology
program, but at least their collection probably isn't going to be stored
next to the Ark of the Covenant for the next few thousand years. >
True, but that's not the way it was supposed to turn out when the museum was 
built and Ned Colbert endowed the chair at the museum.  Without the dinosaur 
fossils, there is little to draw visitors to the museum.

Mary