[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 13 (Friday, January 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 3322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-546]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Proposed National Natural Landmark Designation for 
Ashfall Fossil Beds, Antelope County, NE

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of proposed National Natural Landmark designation.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service Director has determined that Ashfall 
Fossil Beds, located near Orchard in Antelope County, Nebraska, appears 
to meet the criteria for national significance and proposes to 
recommend the site for designation as a National Natural Landmark. The 
public is invited to comment on this recommendation. This proposal will 
be considered by the National Park System Advisory Board at a meeting 
to be held on March 21 and 22, 2006, at Timucuan Ecological and 
Historic Preserve, in the Ribault Club, 11241 Fort George Rd., 
Jacksonville, Florida.

DATES: Written comments will be accepted by the National Park Service 
until March 21, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to Dr. Margaret Brooks, 
National Natural Landmarks Program Manager, National Park Service, 255 
N. Commerce Park Loop, Tucson, Arizona 85745, or Internet address: 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret Brooks at 520-670-6501, 
extension 232.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Ashfall Fossil Beds is the only location on 
earth where large numbers of fossil mammals have been found as whole, 
three-dimensionally preserved skeletons. A thick bed of volcanic ash 
contains hundreds of complete skeletons of extinct rhinos, camels, 
three-toed horses and many other vertebrates lying in their death poses 
in an ancient waterhole. The animals were killed and buried by ash from 
an enormous volcanic eruption some 10 million years ago. This site is a 
Nebraska State Historical Park and is open to the public. Information 
on the National Natural Landmarks Program can be found in 36 CFR part 
62 or on the Internet at http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl.

    Dated: January 17, 2006.
Fran P. Mainella,
Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 06-546 Filed 1-19-06; 8:45 am]
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