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FOSSIL FORESTS OF YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



less isolated trunks and stumps of fossil trees, but so far as known 

 none of these are equal in interest to the fossil forest on the slopes 

 of Specimen Ridge. 



The fossil forests are reached over a road from the Mammoth 

 Hot Springs, or from Camp Roosevelt near Tower Falls, and they are 



Fig. 3. — T^prtgiit trunk and " hoodoo" in Gallatin Mountains, ]Montana. 

 Courtesy of E. C. Aldei'son. 



in their way quite as wonderful and Avorthy of attention as many 

 of the other features for which the Yellowstone National Park is so 

 justly celebrated. 



Recently another extensive fossil forest has been found on the 

 divide between the Gallatin and Yellowstone Rivers in the Gallatin 



