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Dinosaur National Monument

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noun

  1. a national monument in NE Utah and NW Colorado: site of prehistoric animal fossils. 322 sq. mi. (834 sq. km).


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Enefit plans to operate on about 7,000 acres of desert land just south of Dinosaur National Monument and produce 50,000 barrels of oil per day, almost doubling the entire basin's production.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022

Not far from Cross Mountain, officials at Dinosaur National Monument have raised their own concerns.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

An eighth population in Dinosaur National Monument also is considered gone.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Quarry Hall at Dinosaur National Monument is newer and slicker than the Price museum, but we soon learned that its fate was once as precarious as a plant-eating stegosaurus amid a pack of predatory sauropods.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2014

Here, eighteen miles east of the town of Vernal, eighty acres of the exposed Morrison strata were set aside in 1915 as the Dinosaur National Monument.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling