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  • Volunteers uncovers 58th Mammoth at the Mammoth Site (Hot Springs, SD)

    07/29/2008 1:28:53 AM PDT · by ApplegateRanch · 16 replies · 139+ views
    RapidCityJournal ^ | Friday, July 25, 2008 | Mary Garrigan
    HOT SPRINGS -- Joanne Bugel is happy to be the Earthwatch volunteer who uncovered the 115th tusk at the Mammoth Site and moved the popular Hot Springs tourist site’s mammoth tally to 58. [snip] This group has been a particularly productive bunch, said crew chief Don Morris. [snip] Bones unearthed by 2008 Earthwatch volunteers include: three tusks, a tooth, a patella, six ribs, a fibula, four vertebra and assorted other bones. Neteal Graves, 18, of Kaycee, Wyo., also unearthed some coprolite – [snip] Graves has the Mammoth Site in her bloodline. In 1974, her mother, Cheri Graves, was a college...