Our very first in-person seminar will be held off-site at Corral Bluffs, which is 10 minutes East of Colorado Springs. We have set up two dates with their Corral Bluffs AAliance group to accommodate those who can only do weekends. We will hold one field trip on Wednesday, October 19th, and the second one on Saturday, October 22nd. This amazing experience will be a guided 4-mile hike in quite a unique area; Participants should be prepared for a moderate to difficult hike over uneven terrain. The weather may still be hot in October You will enjoy the geology, wildflowers, pronghorns, prairie birds, and deer. The hike leaders have spent much time getting to know this unique area to provide the participants with a wonderful experience.     Corral Bluffs is a nature preserve in El Paso County in Colorado set up to preserve the paleontological discovery that made national news several years ago when Colorado scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science published the discovery of a treasure trove of fossils. They had been exploring the area for over 30 years. The site had been of prehistoric interest since the early 1900s. In 2014, Tyler Lyson and Dr. Ian Miller, then the curator of paleobotany and the director of Earth and Space Sciences at DMNS, first visited the fossil site, and they weren’t impressed with what they found. In a later visit that year, Miller opened up a small boulder called a concretion, and the exploration began in earnest. Over the years, the team has discovered thousands of preserved animal and plant fossils.  This groundbreaking find helps to fill in the gaps in the planet’s recovery and the rise of early mammals after a massive asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs in a mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.      Many, many articles have been written and podcasts and films have been made about this site. NOVA did a documentary on it several years ago. Should you wish to read about this discovery in more depth, google Corral Bluffs for more information.         Information about how you can sign up for these hikes will come out  at a later date. Please remember that this is a 4 hour hike and not easy. Attendees must be at least 10 years old. Please be watching for information on how to register for these hikes. Those of us who were so lucky a few years ago to go on the hike, will never forget the experience..