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Monday, June 28, 2010

FLYING CRANE. LANDING CRANE, SLEEPING CRANE (chinglish translation)

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Once pulled out of the building beyond the overhang of the roof, the QVC crane was lifted and moved to the center of the parking lot, where ...

CRANE EXITS STAGE EAST

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Throughout the entire Quarry Visitor Center rehab project, one part was always seen as a looming menace and universally recognized as the gr...

ANOTHER TALE OF THE CRANE

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While the following true story has little to do with the construction underway at the Quarry Visitor Center, it is worth recounting because ...

A CRANE'S TALE

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The curious reader might well ponder “Why DID Dinosaur National Monument have a crane weighing 28,000 pounds and capable of lifting 8,000 po...
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I-BEAM LOGGERS

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With all the window panes and frames out of the east wall, only one small matter stood in the way of getting the old crane out of the Quarry...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

PAINFULLY PANELESS

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The design of the Quarry Visitor Center utilized natural rather than electric light in displaying the bones. To that end, the building had e...
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AND THE FLOORS CAME TUMBLING DOWN

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Thanks to the Split Mountain Anticline just a few miles to the east, the Carnegie Quarry is ideally situated for a permanent public display....
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DAN CHURE: I have been the paleontologist at Dinosaur National Monument for 34 years. My main research interests are dinosaurs & the ecosystems they lived in. I am also interested in fossil resource management & preservation, & the impacts of 20th century warfare and social revolutions on fossil collections & scientists. This blog is personal and not an official blog of Dinosaur National Monument or the National Park Service.
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