By the way, if you were wondering what happens to the fossils you collect…

We place them in this blue bucket, volunteers screen wash them in these sinks, separating out the bags with dividers. They dry, end up in boxes, and then the pieces are glued back together and cataloged.

Depending on how full the bucket is, we will temporarily keep fossil bags in a storage shed until they can be processed.

This bucket holds fossils waiting to be processed.

Volunteers wash and pre-sort fossils at these sinks

Fossils are washed and pre-sorted in these trays, and then left to dry

Drying cabinet holds washed and pre-sorted fossils

Boxes of washed and dried fossils.