Big Bone Lick

Big Bone Naturalist and interim park manager, Todd Young, has a new blog about the park.  From his blog:

“Todd is a native of Northern Kentucky and grew up visiting Big Bone Lick State Park. His interest in paleontology and archaeology grew after finding a piece of a mammoth’s tooth at the park, which was displayed in the old museum.  Todd is a graduate from NKU with degrees in Anthropology and Philosophy.  In 2006, he took over the full time Naturalist position.”

Big Bone Naturalist Blog

Big Bone Lick State Park has named park naturalist Todd Young as the interim park manager.  Young will hold the position at least until April.  He replaced retired manager Bertie Lucas.

Young has worked at the park for eight years and has been the park naturalist the past four years.  “I grew up coming to the park.  I want to see it prosper and do the best it can,” Young said in a Boone Blog interview.  “I’m happy they thought I could do a good job at it.  I will try my best.”

I’ve known Todd professionally for years through park events and this blog.  I believe he’s very knowledgeable, dedicated, motivated to do well for the park, he’s visitor-focused (which is a good thing for a state park), and he’s an all-around good guy. 

Congratulations, Todd!

Big-Bone-Lick.com now supports smartphones and mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Palm Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry Storm. 

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Big Bone Lick State Park has been named a National Natural Landmark (NNL), the National Park Service announced today.  The park joins an elite group of 586 sites across the United States that have received NNL status.  The program began 1962 to recognize and preserve important natural history sites.

Big Bone is one of four sites added today to the NNL program.  The others sites are: Nottingham Park Serpentine Barrens in Pennsylvania, Cave Without a Name in Texas, and the Chazy Fossil Reef in Vermont and New York.

A National Park Service press release says: “Big Bone Lick in Boone County, Kentucky is unique for its combination of salt springs and associated Late Pleistocene bone beds.  The site has been referred to as the birthplace of vertebrate paleontology in North America.  The Big Bone fossils played a very important role in the development of scientific thought regarding the idea of extinction and the relationship of geology and paleontology.”

Story at Cincinnati Enquirer