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  • Jean Claude Dionne posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago

    6 years, 10 months ago
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I am in the process of developing my own fossil site on my property ( 50 acres ) to know more and to view some of my fossils collection click on Photo Gallery at: fossilrestigouche.com   and give me your opinion and comments on the contact us page.  Thanks,  J.C. Dionne

    • Wow! This is really excellent. I visited the Survey page on your website, and am very excited to see that you’re interested in developing Fossil Restigouche as a research and education field site. Can you say more about how long you’d like feedback for? Did you see this @jennifer-ward @jason-schein @egardner @bmacfadden ?

      • Hi, Lisa and thanks for your comments and also for visiting my website: fossilrestigouche.com As far as for my survey I am thinking 6 months or until I get enough feedback to take a final decision.

      • I love the website and variety of invertebrates. The fact that you say they are all easily accessible makes me think this is a wonderful opportunity for students (such as myself). I think this has potential to become a 8-9 day field camp type of experience even and would minimize the impact from a full curriculum-type course but I can’t be certain without some more digging. (Pun intended)

        I’ll speak to my professors and the head of the department and see if I can get UofT to help send me down for a closer look

        • Hi, Thank you for your interest in Fossil Restigouche. I would love to invite you and or your group to come and dig for fossils but I am sorry to tell you that our fossil site is not ready yet to receive visitors, we are now conducting a Survey on our website in order to determine if there are enough interest and demand for this important project to go ahead and be implemented, the result coming from our Survey right now is overwhelming and very positive so I will certainly let you know when our fossil digging site is ready.

          • Oh sorry, my wording was poor as I was trying to fit a pun/joke in.

            I just meant to come and take a physical look at the property on behalf of the university to see if it has enough potential to sustain a multi-year educational ‘field camp’ type of experience. Much like the geologist had done….. but slightly different

            • I didn’t mean that I was going to bring an excavator type team or people. It would likely be me and another student…. as scouts

            • This major project is in its early stage of development and we don’t have any insurance yet to cover public accidents or injuries on this property and this summer we will probably conduct drilling test with low charges of explosives to break the bedrock in different locations on the property so it will be way to dangerous for public.

    • Wow, very cool. Good luck. You might want to get in touch with the folks at the Edleman Fossil Quarry (formerly known as Inversand) in southern New Jersey. They had a somewhat similar plan – take a privately-owned fossil-rich location and turn it into an educational and research destination. A quick google search will take you right there.