Dinosaur National Monument must release 2 of its workers

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: February 18, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Dinosaur National Monument, home to some of Utah's most amazing dinosaur bone discoveries, will be losing two positions that are currently filled, Superintendent Mary Risser confirmed Tuesday.

The national monument is chronically underfunded. In July 2006 the famous visitor center, enclosing a cliff studded with 1,500 dinosaur fossils, was forced to close. Built in 1957 on clay- infused formations, the center had began to shift. The library had to be abandoned because support beams flexed through a wall. Gaps more than a foot wide appeared where the building continued to pull away from the ...

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