Show woodrow wilson sets 80 acres F for or monument the original proclamation signed by president woodrow wilson on october 4 1915 set aside 80 acres as a nation al monument to preserve an extraordinary deposit of dinosaurian Dinosaur lan and other gi gantic reptilian remains of the he Jur atlas geologists now called this period jurassic period which are of grea great t scientific interest and value and it appears that the public interest would bo be promoted by reserving these deposits as a national monument tog etli er with as much land as may be needed toy for the protection thereof the decur document ent took note of the c coal mining which had been tating tailing place in the area now occupied by the monument it warned against any future mining saying that while the la lands ads embraced within this proposed reserve have ovive heretofore been withdrawn as coal and pho phosphate lands the creation of this thi monument will prevent the use of the lands for the purposes for which said withdrawals were made warning to is hereby expressly given to io all unauthorized persons person snot not to appt appropriate excavate injure or destroy any of the fossil remains contained within the deposits hereby reserved and declared to be a national monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and made a part of the monument by this procla mation the unbelievably rich deposit of fossil dinosaur bones were discovered in 1909 by earl douglass a paleontologist tor for the carnegie museum the monument boundaries were extended in 1038 1938 to include the scenic canyon country of tile the green and yampa rivers i |