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SIDETRACKED
The Struggle for BC's Fossils
Vivien Lougheed
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What began as a hunting trip to British Columbia’s Northern Rockies in 2000 turns into one of the province’s most important fossil finds -- the Monroe Dinosaur Trackway in Kakwa Provincial Park. It also opens a Pandora’s box of professional egos and turf wars akin to those which have sullied the science of paleontology since 11-year-old Mary Anning found her first ichthyosaur on England’s Dorset coast in the early 1800s.
In Sidetracked: The Struggle for BC’s Fossils, Vivien Lougheed tells the fascinating tale of Dr. Garnet Fraser, a Prince George physician and co-discoverer, along with McBride trapper Bryan Monroe, of the Kakwa tracks. In the telling, Lougheed weaves in stories of other major fossil finds in British Columbia and across North America, many of which demonstrate how human nature and a lack of resources and time can and do diminish the science of paleontology.
While professional and amateur paleontologists, commercial fossil hunters, scientific societies, professors, museum curators and politicians spar in an ancient arena, erosion, theft and neglect threaten Earth’s fossil record and with it our ability to decipher the geological past. In Sidetracked Lougheed chronicles one man’s growing passion for paleontology and issues a plea for cooperation, not competition, in the pursuit of that arcane science.
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Price: $21.00
ISBN: 9780978319557
2011, Creekstone Press
Binding: Paperback
Length: 194
Status: Available |
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