The I.N.H.A. Staff Blog

Category: Day-to-Day

Trail Guide (Brochure) Donation

This is the most recent standard operating procedure for handling trail guide donations. Everyone should be familiar with this and know where to find it. Please click the “FEEDBACK” button on the left and let us know that you have read and understand the process. Thank you. Trail Guide Donation On a regular basis, trail guides,…

Lion and Bear Sightings

From Emily Spencer – Dinosaur National Monument Lions and Bears While I’m always up for a good wildlife sighting story, I am especially interested in getting specific details on bears and lions. Every year we get multiple reports of bear and lion sightings from around the monument and I am interested in all of them. Most of these are…

Important Info

Hi Everyone – Spring is here. Birds are singing. Flowers and trees are blooming. Baby animals are frolicking about. Dramatic skies move overhead. But it isn’t always baby prairie dogs and rainbows here at Dinosaur – sometimes things die. Sometimes they happen to die or fall ill in our developed areas where staff and visitors…

Five Facts You Need to Know About Groundhog Day

Groundhogs (their scientific name is Marmota monax) are related to squirrels. Where predators are scarce and alfalfa is abundant, they can grow to three feet in length — tail included — and may weigh as much as 30 pounds. They’ve been known to live as long as 22 years in captivity. American groundhogs, mostly brown…