John Day Fossil Beds Photo Gallery #2
This is a continuation around the John Day Fossil Bed loop.
This is at the Sheep Rock Unit. "R.W. Chaney, a paleobotanist, once wrote that 'no region in the world shows more complete sequences of tertiary land populations, both plant and animal, than the John Day Basin.' It is a record of such continuity and duration that scientists can test theories against the fossil record," (John Day Fossil Beds. 1999. National Park Service).
This is a canyon at the Sheep
Rock Unit.
This is Sheep Rock which rises to 3,360 feet above sea level.
This is Rock Creek along highway 26. The highway is one of the main arteries to eastern Oregon.
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