UPDATE!
I will be holding a 60-90 minute fossil tour at Whispering Winds on Saturday, April 9th starting at 1:00 pm. This will include getting to know your fossils and the fossil prep barn. Then you can purchase a laminated ID sheet with map for Fillmore County (7 sites within 10 miles of Spring Valley) and/or 8 sites with 10 miles of St. Charles and you can hunt to your heart’s content! 😀
The tour is $15 per person and each map is $5 – Cash only exact change please.
Whispering Winds
If you desire, I can come along and hunt at an extra $10 per hour, or show you even more hunting spots. OR, just bring your fossils back here after you are done hunting and I will ID them and you are welcome to use the fossil prep barn to work on them. 😀
I just got an email from the Eagle Bluff Skills School Coordinator that they have cancelled the April class – classes are scheduled for May through October.
I do give fossil tours and classes on an individual basis as well as for groups of scouts, 4-Hers, schools, etc. If interested, please email me at:
bcfossillady at gmail dot com
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This class is given through the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center skills schools classes:
Okay… I have no idea why their link is refusing to come through, but go to: Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, then the Skills School, and to the April Classes and you will see the fossil hunting class on April 9th. $40 includes an entire afternoon of fossils and hunting!!! 😀
Last year’s class was loads of fun and we found LOTS of fossils!
This year the class is meeting at Eagle Bluff (12:30) and then will come to Whispering Winds for a one hour tour of various fossils in a garden setting to familiarize the newbie hunters with what they are looking for. We will also explore the fossil prep barn where you can try your hand at some basic prepping tools.
Then we will hunt! Our first stop will be an old quarry that hosts the Prosser member of the Galena Formation – good for trilobites and many other fossils. This stop also has the Stewartville member of the Galena Formation which can have wonderful preservation of gastropods and cephalopods. AND a hidden stream emerging from the base of a bluff.
From there the class will be tailored to the members desires on what they are searching for in particular. A nice general variety of fossils? Trilobites, please? Fisherites? Spectacular views or let’s get out of the wind? 🙂
All participants will have the opportunity to purchase laminated ID sheets with maps of fossil hunting spots in Fillmore and/or Winona counties for just $5 apiece – cash please. 🙂
What to come back after the class is over (5:30 at Eagle Bluff), prep your fossils in the barn and “talk shop”? I’ll be here! 😀
