(90) Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2018 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Monument
Region: Midwest
Location: Harrison, Nebraska
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: During the 1880s, scientists rediscovered what the Lakota Sioux and others already knew about: 20-million-year-old bones, deposited in what many paleontologists believe is one of the best-preserved Miocene mammal sites in the world.

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Junior Ranger worksheet 2018

Junior Ranger Badges for OZL & CZL, July 2018

(89) Jewel Cave National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2018 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Monument 
Region: Rocky Mountain
Location: Custer, South Dakota
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: With more than 132 miles surveyed, Jewel Cave is recognized as the third longest cave in the world. Cave tours provide opportunities for viewing its wide variety of stalactites, stalagmites, draperies, frostwork, flowstone, boxwork, and hydromagnesite balloons.

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 Discovery Talk, June 2018

 Discovery Talk, June 2018

 Junior Ranger Badges for OZL & CZL, June 2018

Junior Ranger Patches for OZL & CZL, June 2018

(80) Natural Bridges National Monument

 Visited Together:

1. May 2010

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Lake Powell, UT
Link: NPS website 

Passport Description: Natural Bridges protects some of the finest examples of ancient stone architecture in the Southwest. On a tree-covered mesa cut by deep sandstone canyons, three natural bridges formed where meandering streams eroded the canyon walls.

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 Sipapu Bridge, May 2010

 Trail to Horsecollar Ruins Overlook, May 2010

(76) Cedar Breaks National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Cedar City, UT
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: A huge natural amphitheater has been eroded out of the variegated Pink Cliffs. Millions of years of sedimentation, uplift and erosion have created a 2,000-foot-deep canyon of rock walls, fins, spires and columns that spans some three miles. 

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 Cedar Breaks with Gabe, June 2009

(75) Fort Union National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Monument
Region: Southwest Region
Location: Watrous, NM
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Established in 1851 as a guardian and protector of the Santa Fe Trail, the Fort Union site actually held three different forts over its 40-year history. The third and final Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest.

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 Santa Fe Trail, June 2009

Fort Union, June 2009

(72) Hovenweep National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Blanding, UT
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Hovenweep National Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border.

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 Hovenweep, June 2009

  Hovenweep, June 2009

(71) Yucca House National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Cortez, CO
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Yucca House was built by the ancestors of today's Pueblos, and now exists as a monument to the cooperation between tribes and stewardship of natural, cultural, and historical resources.

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 Yucca House, June 2009

Yucca House, June 2009

 

 Yucca House, June 2009

(65) Bandelier National Monument

Visited Together:

1. September 2008
2. February 2011

Type: National Monument
Region: Southwest Region
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier also includes more than 23,000 acres of designated wilderness. The best-known archeological sites, in Frijoles Canyon, were inhabited from the 1100s into the mid 1500s.

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Bandelier, September 2008

 

Bandelier, September 2008

 

 

 Bandelier, September 2008

(62) Muir Woods National Monument

Visited Together:

1. July 2007

Type: National Monument
Region: Western Region
Location: Mill Valley, CA
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The forest along Redwood Creek in today's Muir Woods was spared from logging because it was hard to reach. Redwood Creek contained one of the San Francisco Bay Area's last uncut stands of old-growth redwood when Congressman William Kent bought 295 acres here for $45,000 in 1905.

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 Muir Woods, July 2007

  Muir Woods, July 2007