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B.C. has 'seen the light' on important fossil beds
VANCOUVER - After a decade of scientists arguing the insanity of issuing mineral leases allowing the mining of the world-renowned McAbee fossil beds for cat litter, British Columbia's government finally has begun the process of protecting them with a heritage designation.
It says formal notifications are going out to local governments, stakeholders and First Nations within whose traditional territories the fossil beds lie, about 13 kilometres east of Cache Creek along the highway to Kamloops.
This 50-million-year-old site of an Eocene lake bed yields exquisitely preserved fossils which paleontologists say provide answers critical to our present-day understanding of how plants, insects and animals react to rapid climate change.
The Eocene is better known for its large, exotic and now extinct creatures: a flightless predatory bird the size of modern bears, carnivores as big as small pickup trucks, whales with legs and rhinoceros-like animals that were the largest mammals ever to walk the Earth.
http://www.canada.com/news/seen+light+important+fossil+beds/6246858/story.html
It says formal notifications are going out to local governments, stakeholders and First Nations within whose traditional territories the fossil beds lie, about 13 kilometres east of Cache Creek along the highway to Kamloops.
This 50-million-year-old site of an Eocene lake bed yields exquisitely preserved fossils which paleontologists say provide answers critical to our present-day understanding of how plants, insects and animals react to rapid climate change.
The Eocene is better known for its large, exotic and now extinct creatures: a flightless predatory bird the size of modern bears, carnivores as big as small pickup trucks, whales with legs and rhinoceros-like animals that were the largest mammals ever to walk the Earth.
http://www.canada.com/news/seen+light+important+fossil+beds/6246858/story.html