Today is your day to voice your opinion. Be sure to vote! Vernal City Mayor Vernal City Council Naples City Mayor Ballard City Mayor Proposition 5: Shall Uintah County, Utah, be authorized to impose a quarter of one percent (0.25% or the equivalent of 1 cent for every $4 spent) sales tax for the authorized…
When local daylight time is about to reach Sunday, November 5, 2017, 2:00:00 am, clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, November 5, 2017, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead. Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on Nov 5, 2017, than the day before. There will be more light in the morning. Also called Fall Back and Winter Time. Read more…
Kemmerer, Wyoming – On Saturday, October 14, 2017, monument staff and volunteers will host events in celebration of National Fossil Day. We will be observing National Fossil Day from 8am-4:30 pm with all day activities including hands-on demonstrations, arts & crafts and exhibit tours of the Monument Museum, geared for children and adults. From 11am-1pm, the public can learn…
Equinoxes are opposite on either side of the equator, so the autumnal (fall) equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is the spring (vernal) equinox in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. Equinoxes and solstices happen twice a year. Not Entirely Equal Day & Night On the two equinoxes every year the Sun shines directly on the Equator and…
After September 2, 2017, there will only be one RTW shuttle, no Wilkins shuttle (per the contract). The shuttle schedule will be every 15 minutes instead of every 7. Also, we only have daily shuttles through Sunday, September 10. After that we will have shuttles on Saturday and Sunday through the end of September, but not Monday…
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…
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…
