Show Fossil study contracted T at Red Fleet Reservoir i B l Ill 4 ICE FISHERMAN playing it safe at Cedar Springs Marina on Flaming Warm weather is making ice conditions dangerous for fishermen unless they return to shore for A contract to evaluate the scientific importance of fossils recently discovered at the Red Fleet Reservoir site near Vernal has been awarded to Robertson from Bureau of Reclamation Regional Director Bill Plummer announced Robert noted paleontologist from the University of will serve as principal The study also includes evaluation of paleontology in the area of the planned West Divide Project in west-central Vertebrate such as and and early mammals will be evaluated by Sloan's while Michael E. Vice President of Robertson and his team will evaluate invertebrate animals and any fossil plants which may be The one-year study calls for a literature review and field The field study will be followed by a laboratory description and evaluation of all fossil plants and animals The Red Fleet study area covers In November 1978 fragments' of dinosaur fossils were discovered by the Bureau of Reclamation in outcrops of the Morrison The Morrison Formation is well known as a fossil-producing geological If the study determines that important fossils are present within the Red Fleet reservoir they will be protected by the Bureau until recovery operations are materials are protected on Federal lands by the Antiquities Act of 1906 and by the and Historic Data Preservation Act of The 1906 law provides for scientific recovery of objects of antiquity and for penalties to anyone who collects these objects from Federal lands without The 1974 law provides funding for studies and for recovery of data endangered by Federal construction Construction on Red Fleet located on Big Brush Creek about miles downstream from the crossing of State Highway 44 and about 10 miles northeast of started in the spring of The dam should be completed early in Red Fleet is the principal feature of the Jensen Unit of the Central Utah The reservoir will store over acre-feet of water from early spring runoff and the surplus flows of Big Brush Creek for municipal and industrial uses and for irrigation as well as to reduce floods in Brush Creek downstream from the |