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University of Alaska Museum of the North
This museum curates, studies, and exhibits fossil collections from the public lands administered by BLM in Alaska. The museum collection includes more than 1,000 bones from at least 6 varieties of dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Period (65 to 72 million years ago). Pleistocene (10-thousand-year-old to 2-million-year-old) fossils include mammoths, saber tooth tigers, bison, mastodons, camels and many other fauna.
Drive to the University of Alaska campus on the west side of Fairbanks and follow the signs to the museum on Yukon Dr.
800.437.7021
AK_FDO_GeneralDelivery@blm.gov
Bureau of Land Management Fairbanks District Office 1150 University Avenue Fairbanks, AK 99709
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BLM - Bureau of Land Management
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.