Location: Richland Public Library
955 Northgate Way Richland WA, 99352
Gary Kleinknecht will give a presentation about the Coyote Canyon Mammoth site. Gary is a retired high school teacher and the current Education and Outreach Director for MCBONES, the nonprofit that oversees the mammoth site. His powerpoint will include the mammoth's discovery and the rare opportunity to study our region's past as the bones are excavated. He will also discuss this mamoth's death and burial, the relationship between mammoths and elephants, and a study, which sheds light on eastern Washington's environmental conditions over the past 20,000 years.
For more information, to to: Richland Public Library