Digging for Fossils in Fossil Oregon // Wheeler High School Fossil Beds
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- This is a great location to visit if you want to dig fossils! We will certainly be returning to this location now that we have a better understanding of the dig site and what can be found at the location.
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I love the video. I havent been to Fossil in years. Im surprised you didnt find more than goats running free there lol 🙂 I spent many a day there back when i was younger, my husband (now ex ,lol,) is from Fossil. It looks like the site is as well maintained as it always was. It was always a sleepy little town but I loved it there. Im surprised that theres any fossils left tho. I dont know which way you traveled to get to Fossil but back down the road aways, past service creek, is where they did the big digs where all the prehistoric animals and such were found , even have a small museum of what they found. There use to be a small maintained dig site there for the public but that was in the 80's. Who knows now lol Cant wait to see your next video Thanks for bringing back memories with this one 🤗
Random city goats. Baseball field goats. I laughed so hard 😂
Very nice fossils. Looked like a decent place as far as fossil hunting places go. You guys found quite a bit. I agree with tapping gently, and the rock usually breaks where the fossil is. Fun video. I enjoyed it. I absolutely love fossils. Thanks for sharing.
It's a little funny that the goats just have free run of the place.
Some of my best amethyst finds here in Colorado was in a small stream bed right next to a baseball / softball field. Would LOVE to expose and hound up some fossils like you guys are finding. What a fun adventure!
Great fossils. Leaves this week dinosaurs next week.
Nah man you're good! You can actually identify some of the different leaves. In my area it's all crinoids and parts of crinoids. I haven't even begun to delve into individual species.
Yeah these are a little more approachable.
Thank you for filming this site - it's definitely on my list, but it's nice to see what it looks like.
You should visit next time you're in the area.
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it looks allot like Burlington Chert that i use to made arrow points.
Very cool, I will be going on a little fossil dig in north Texas in a couple of weeks…
Good luck!
What a fun little adventure ❤ thanks for sharing!
I always wondered about that spot! Thanks for making the trip and the video!
It's worth a visit!
This was a great video! Now, me being new to identification, I'm curious to what rock/stone these fossils are in??
They are in sandstone.
Sandstone, multiple buildings in town are made of sandstone from that area.
Texas has good fossils to hunt
Is your dog an American Indian dog? It's really beautiful.
Shes a rescued shelter dog who is shepherd / husky mix.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding oh! American Indian dogs come from husky and coyote. My friends dog, Tuuka, looks very much like your dog. Tyvm
Always glad to see another fossil video! 😉 You really *branched* out on this one… 😂 That’s a nice locality with a very reasonable fee. I like one of the other commenter’s suggestion of making your five pieces some thick chunks of the productive seam, and taking them back home to process. Nice plates!
Yeah that would have likely been the best option to just take some home.
Nice finds! Where I live it's crinoid stems and brachiopods, brachiopods and crinoid stems. Totally different ecologies and time frames.
Been there once. Great locality. Another good Miocene fossil locality is the racetrack at Clarkia, Idaho. This is private property but the fee is reasonable, and this can be a day trip from Spokane.
We have visited the Fossil Bowl once in the past.
Fossil is a cool little community. My last time there was at the 2017 solar eclipse and I stopped for food and ice. I didn't know about the fossil dig site then.
When growing up in Nevada, My grandfather hauled diatomaceous earth from an area in central Nevada. On weekends he would take me there to hunt fossils. We would find mostly fish and some concretions but the material was so soft that all it took was a hatchet to split. I wish I still had some of those. The concretions never looked like much so I don't know what they were.
5 bucks a person and 3 fossils what an awesome deal and fun day out
I'm happy with it!
Those are cool fossils! Maybe not as prevalent as the stone rose ones wrre but huge plates and some really full plares too. But the ones you two brought back are really nice and the goats were friendly if you werent a dog! Laika didnt know what to think of them! Its their eyes. They are just suspicious looking! Lol! Freat video and i love fossils and rhise were really nice ones too! Thanks Jared and Sarah!
Its a really good place to stop at and do some digging.
Ha! It's really hard to read what a goat is thinking about with those eyes.
Are you allowed to keep bony fish up there in Washington? If so, is it strictly specimens dug from private claim/private property or is BLM land considered in the clear? Out where I live bony fish and vertebrates are a no-go on BLM land, but okay on private properties. (If I recall correctly)
It depends on the land that you are collecting on in Washington state.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Ah, I see. Washington has such a vast geography so that makes sense
@@necessarychanges4387 A good example of it is the Stone Rose collection site that we visited which is private property. I would suggest giving that one a watch if you haven't already and you like fossils.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Yessir, pretty sure I have, but I'll check it out again! You are by far the best UA-camr in terms of quantity and quality of information.
@@necessarychanges4387 Thank you very much! I do my best to be a good steward of the hobby.
Pretty groovy branching out in to less familiar territory. Some of those have great detail with all the leafy veins. I always think of Weird Al when you mention aluminum foil. Glad to see they made it back safe. You as well!
Was there a few days ago and since I have some mobility issues decided just to break up some of the rocks that others discarded. Found same as you but in smaller pieces. If you get a chance to visit their museum and the city hall the people in this town are wonderful! I was there on the last day of school and it was hot. Still one of the best days ever! The donation box is run on the honor system and all the money goes back into the school’s fund to be used for the arts. As a retired teacher I put a 20 in the box as it was a good cause!
We did get a chance to visit the museum which was really good.
very extraordinary quest friends. great videos.
We collected there many times starting back in the early 70’s. There was no limit and no charge to collect. Only real collector’s seemed to show up to collect. When they started charging a fee we saw large families, totally unprepared for fossil collecting, come in and turn their kids loose with ordinary hammers and screwdrivers. The kids would pound away on the seams not even knowing what to look for and most certainly destroyed a very large amount of fossil shale. Then the parents would always be in a bad mood and yell at the kids because no one was finding anything. We were often out in 115 to 120+ temperatures and of course the families had no shade tents or water. The charging of a fee made this spot hit the “ must see tourist areas” in Oregon. So people who had no business being there made all the collectors suffer. I never saw anyone take any large amounts of material and the limit of 3 fossils is ridiculous. We finally decided to find thick slabs with a small fossil showing and take that home to work on in more controlled surroundings. Just needed three thick slabs each and we often could get several really nice fossils. We donated a lot of specimens to colleges and collectors who were not able to travel to Fossil. Never going back again…..way too old now…..almost a fossil!
We also saw some unprepared people as well, there isn't much online about this location, what to expect or what to bring but hopefully this video and my website can change that some.
We have only been there this one time and a few other people showed up and poked around some but it wasn't really like you're describing. Maybe it would be a on a nicer summer Saturday.
Locals suffer too, the place swarms with tourists. You can see my grandmother's old house in this video.
So cool. We'll have to check this out. My son would love it. (Twenty four years old with special needs.) He loves rock hounding and this would be so cool for him to split shale type sediment and find cool things!❤
It is a really good place to visit!
I stopped by here as a kid! Looks the same practically lol! Fun stuff thanks for the video as always
You should go back sometime and bring your kids.
The Goats 😂😂😂
They are pretty funny.
It would be neat to see a time lapse through a big slab of this.
I did this gig about 15 years ago. It was $3 for all you could fit in your two hands cupped together. Also, Meta-Sequoia is the official Oregon State Fossil. Nice that you found some. Since I'm not much of a fossil guy, I gave mine all away. Oh, and I found a fish and was told we were not able to keep it.
I didn't even really think about Oregon having a state fossil.
Maybe its time for you to return and find some more!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Ha ha. No. As I said, I'm not a fossil guy. I only have a couple that I keep. My favorite is a 4+ inch Megalodon tooth. I'll leave the rest to those who appreciate them much more than I do.
Great video!
Thank you!
Cannot wait to see this adventure when I get back home later~ Excellent stuff folks!
Its a good one!
We like places like that and yes stone rose is fun too. Thanks for sharing and good splitting.
It's a good location for sure.
Baseball field goats and fossils. Nothing too much finer. This looks like a lot of fun!
It's a great location.
Grew up here. Doesn't cost money if you sneak in. There usually isn't anyone there.
That's pretty crappy to both do and suggest here.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding if you're a local it's not. I guess I shouldn't have said it here, but for a long time I didn't know it costed money. $5 is hardly gonna bankrupt the county, and townsfolk should have access to local resources. especially since the county has an almost 20% poverty rate and some folk don't have cars or internet.