Mastodons Among us

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MASTODONS AMONG US! On October 17 the Kennedy Gold Mine Speakers Series presents an evening with Ranger/Naturalist Greg Francek who discovered a significant five- to ten-million-year-old fossil deposit near Valley Springs. Imagine a wild landscape of grassland, forests and erupting volcanoes... add a robust population of mammals including camels, rhinos, ancestral elephants and bone-crushing dogs -- such was the scene during the Late Miocene in what we know as present-day California. Greg will be sharing recent discoveries and scientific findings at the Kennedy Mine Speaker Series on October 17, at 7:00pm at the Kennedy Mine Change House, 12594 Kennedy Mine Rd, Jackson, CA. Free admission, however, donations are gladly accepted. Greg Francek is a Ranger/Naturalist who is employed by East Bay Municipal Utility District in the Mokelumne Watershed. As a patrol ranger, Greg’s work includes public safety duties such as regulation enforcement, wildland firefighting, Search & Rescue and medical response. His discovery of the Mokelumne fossil site has launched an intensive on-the-job education in paleontology with a team of elite scientists.