[Federal Register: January 20, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 13)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Proposed National Natural Landmark Designation for
Ashfall Fossil Beds, Antelope County, NE
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of proposed National Natural Landmark designation.
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SUMMARY: The National Park Service Director has determined that Ashfall
Fossil Beds, located near Orchard in Antelope County, Nebraska, appears
to meet the criteria for national significance and proposes to
recommend the site for designation as a National Natural Landmark. The
public is invited to comment on this recommendation. This proposal will
be considered by the National Park System Advisory Board at a meeting
to be held on March 21 and 22, 2006, at Timucuan Ecological and
Historic Preserve, in the Ribault Club, 11241 Fort George Rd.,
Jacksonville, Florida.
DATES: Written comments will be accepted by the National Park Service
until March 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to Dr. Margaret Brooks,
National Natural Landmarks Program Manager, National Park Service, 255
N. Commerce Park Loop, Tucson, Arizona 85745, or Internet address:
Margi_Brooks@nps.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret Brooks at 520-670-6501,
extension 232.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Ashfall Fossil Beds is the only location on
earth where large numbers of fossil mammals have been found as whole,
three-dimensionally preserved skeletons. A thick bed of volcanic ash
contains hundreds of complete skeletons of extinct rhinos, camels,
three-toed horses and many other vertebrates lying in their death poses
in an ancient waterhole. The animals were killed and buried by ash from
an enormous volcanic eruption some 10 million years ago. This site is a
Nebraska State Historical Park and is open to the public. Information
on the National Natural Landmarks Program can be found in 36 CFR part
62 or on the Internet at http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl.
Dated: January 17, 2006.
Fran P. Mainella,
Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 06-546 Filed 1-19-06; 8:45 am]
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