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s despite being a multi year process that involved the state land management agencies local communities various native american tribes with ties to the region and scientists like myself this monument has been unceasingly attacked since the moment it was proclaimed with half truths lies and an aggressive smear campaign by some of its more unprincipled detractors the oldest vertebrate tracks from comb ridge benm from gay et al 2017 in this climate of some local antipathy secretary of the interior ryan zinke came to visit bears ears and grand staircase some reports claim that he told local leaders that there would be some shrinking or rescinding of national monuments under review including bears ears if this is true it would be a terrible tragedy especially considering that these comments come before the public review period is even over which brings me to the point of this blog if you love science if you love fossils if you love public lands you need to make your comments heard this is especially important considering the comment period for bears ears is only open until may 26th a ridiculously short period of time for people to comment screenshot taken from https www regulations gov document d doi 2017 0002 0001 at 9 32 am mdt 5 20 17 this is especially true considering that one of the only weekend days of the benm comment period the site is down all day for maintenance not only is internet access spotty across rural utah arizona and new mexico where there is lots of tribal support for benm but now the federal government has decided to have all day maintenance on the comments site during one of the few weekend days that people may have time to write up comments or visit a location with internet access once the site is back up and running this evening if all goes according to schedule please leave a comment in support of science and continuing protection for paleontological resources within benm and all national monuments i ve included a draft of my comments if anyone is looking for a starting point comment site https www regulations gov document d doi 2017 0002 0001 dear secretary zinke i am writing today in order to express my support for the national monuments currently under review by yourself and the department of the interior at the behest of president trump not only do national monuments form a vital part of our nation s public lands they provide meaningful and desperately needed protections for irreplaceable scientifically valuable and nationally significant paleontological specimens and research above and beyond what protections public lands have in place for fossil specimens national monument status conveys additional scrutiny and funding for research education and protection grand staircase escalante national monument has produced dozens of scientifically important specimens since the monument was proclaimed in 1996 bears ears national monument will do the same already scientists like myself are unearthing studying and publishing on amazing discoveries from within the monument reducing or rescinding the national monument status for benm will irreparably hurt scientific efforts in the region and exposes these unique traces of the ancient past that we all share as part of our national natural heritage to damage and destruction by people who do not see a reason or find value in preserving and understanding the past fossil tell us about extinction and how environments change over time the only evidence we have of many of these vast climatic shifts comes from the fossil record including the triassic jurassic transition within bears ears i am calling on you and the trump administration to fully support benm and all other national monuments to the fullest extent and respect their existing boundaries under the authority they were proclaimed by powers vested in the president by congress sincerely robert j gay paleontologist and educator please take the time and leave comments in support of our national monuments and paleontology within them posted by unknown at 9 20 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bears ears bears ears national monument cretaceous fossils grand staircase grand staircase escalante jurassic looting national monument paleontology science triassic trump utah zinke wednesday april 12 2017 bibliography project update it has been a while and things have been busy i wanted to post a note to let everyone know that the benm bibliography now has a live downloadable spreadsheet available free to the public i will continue to update the static text but having the references in a spreadsheet format allows for some cool analysis of the publications as historical documents and allows us to see trends in research themes which is part of my ufop annual meeting talk coming up in late april anyway the spreadsheet is available here for anyone to use and will continue to be updated as i find more resources and new papers are published next time on the pp blog a look at scientific accuracy in popular reconstructions of dilophosaurus posted by unknown at 2 18 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bears ears bears ears national monument bibliography open access science science education tuesday january 3 2017 red canyon fossils and silence red canyon fossils and silence or how not publishing data hurt fossil protection in the fight for bears ears national monument some background okay everybody gather round time for uncle rob to tell the story of red canyon it is a magical place with soaring red walls and seemingly endless badlands rocks from the middle triassic through the early jurassic are exposed in its depths and numerous historic uranium mines roads and artifacts gorgeous desolate and isolated red canyon is truly an amazing location and was rightly included in the bears ears inter tribal coalition s proposal for a bears ears national monument it was specifically excluded under rep rob bishop s public lands initiative and was also dropped from the final bears ears national monument boundaries bears ears national monument map department of the interior besides the odd isolate on the west side of the map just east of lake powell the red canyon moqui canyon stretch of high deserts plateaus and canyons is not protected within the monument boundaries why might that be one reason is likely energy fuels daneros mine located in upper red canyon the other reason might have something to do with paleontological discoveries that are more like tech vaporware than hard science at the moment paleontology in red canyon i am not going to dwell long on current ongoing projects in red canyon headed up by my friends and colleagues that have started in the last couple of years for one that would be unfair and unethical since they are investing time and energy into their discoveries for another everyone involved in research in red canyon currently has a solid record of publishing their work i am confident that any new discoveries that come out of the red canyon area will be properly published in the scientific literature this is a tough subject to write about because the core of the issue are fossils that have never been published this whole story exists however because these fossils have never been published so i will not name institutions or people involved i won t even really describe these fossils in any sort of detail because that would be inappropriate nonetheless these fossils existence is known within the small community of paleontologists who work on the triassic period in western north america the most famous are some small reptile skeletons but other specimens played a role in this story these specimens are far more interesting than i let on here but i don t want to say much more because the fossils are still undescribed these reptile skeletons were discovered first back in either the 1960s or 1970s depending on who is telling the story they went to a museum back east where they have set ever since they have been prepared they have been seen by dozens of visiting researchers and although they are remarkable they have never been described in a formal publication or even in the grey literature as far as anyone seems to know a couple of other scientific publications have come out of work done in red canyon but they were not describing anything new unique or spectacular for the most part crocodylomorph scutes phytosaur bones and teeth etc parrish and good 1987 parrish 1999 not to say that these aren t important to document but they don t carry the scientific significance of a new species for example red canyon on the chopping block so why does this matter well as i mentioned in my last blog post i was asked to provide bibliographies of the paleontological and geological resources of the bears ears area i was also eventually asked to go to washington dc and present that information and more in person i had produced along with some of the conservation groups who i had been in contact with a map highlighting several things a modified version of this map is reproduced below map of the bears ears area before monument designation geologic data from utah geological survey database this map outlined both the utah public lands initiative and the inter tribal coalition s proposals and overlaid both areas of known paleontological resources red hashes in 1 red canyon 2 valley of the gods 3 comb ridge and 4 indian creek and areas pulled from the utah geological survey s online public geologic map database showing where the fossil rich chinle and morrison formations are exposed in green this was done to highlight the potential for new discoveries in this region that has not been systematically explored by paleontologists this is where i ran head on into the realities of the wheels of power looking at the various conservation options anyone who says that this was a sort of midnight swoop into southeastern utah without considering all the factors doesn t know how these proceedings work publications count this is probably the best real world example of why publishing your finds matter it might not be a priority to you it might be a pain it might take more time than you want it might get caught up in the chaos of a job change or move it doesn t matter publish what you find is it all going to be flashy hell no does it provide useful data for your future colleagues or students in 10 20 50 150 years it sure does perhaps most broadly applicable here does it provide people outside the science entirely with something solid to point to when trying to decide on the value of the land you better believe it without anything concrete to point to about the nationally significant scientific value of red canyon when lawmakers bureaucrats and administration officials asked how i could show the area needed protection i couldn t respond at the department of the interior i was repeatedly asked to support my claims that paleontology needed to be protected and what areas were most significant there are publications preprints and abstracts to support the scientific value of indian creek comb ridge and valley of the gods there was nothing to point to for red canyon this also brings up a point that my friend jim has raised on facebook the proclamation language heavily favors the triassic fossils from the region part of this is likely due to some of my experience bias creeping in i mainly work in the triassic the majority of that however comes again from the published record while there are hundreds thousands of acres of middle mesozoic sediments exposed in the bears ears area see the map above almost nothing has been published on fossils from those sediments in the bears ears comparatively the late paleozoic and early mesozoic comprise the vast majority of the published record for the region in meetings with the doi again i was essentially told that knowing that something might be out there is nice the government can t set aside this land from all other purposes based on a possibility in setting up proclamation language we didn t ignore mid mesozoic finds those projects have either been sidelined ignored or not started by our own profession in favor of work elsewhere and i recognize that it is a tough balancing act my work in bears ears has meant i haven t been following up on leads in other places we all only have so much time energy and funding conclusion would scientists publishing in the 80s or 90s on the red canyon reptile material have made a difference would red canyon now be part of bears ears national monument had these reptiles and other more recent but unpublished finds become part of the published scientific record that s a what if game that has no right answer its inclusion would still have to fight against powerful interests looking to preserve uranium mining in red canyon i do know that it couldn t have hurt and its absence was the weakest point by far in all my efforts to get paleontology covered under a benm or any legislative action we shouldn t be publishing for solely political cynicism but sitting on scientifically significant fossils for 40 50 years should not be considered normal or acceptable this is especially true in this age of rapid rigorous peer review and digital publication sitting on specimens for that long hurts science hurts future work in the area and may even end up hurting the very place the fossils came from works cited instead of my usual works cited section here i am going to take this space to say i am going to be creating a bears ears bibliography page here on the blog this will be a core page here on the blog and will be added to as new papers either come to light or are published they will be live linked when possible expect this to go live in the first week of 2017 it will start with the bibliography i prepared for the white house so you can see if you didn t get an e mail from me before all of this what i was working from if you think something is missing and should be included after it goes live don t hesitate to point it out posted by unknown at 10 29 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bears ears bears ears national monument behind the scenes comb ridge indian creek maps politics red canyon utah valley of the gods older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments open for business blog archive 2018 1 february 1 reducing a monument on the ground question 2017 5 december 1 may 1 april 1 january 2 2016 6 december 3 january 3 2015 36 october 1 september 3 august 2 july 8 june 5 may 7 april 7 january 3 popular posts national monuments paleo and the future reducing a monument on the ground question the past was horrifying sounds of the mesozoic ceratosaurus part 1 the history of a predatory horned dinosaur the fight for paleontology in bears ears my blog list rock head sciences new postdoc 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