Digging for Fossils in Fossil Oregon // Wheeler High School Fossil Beds 

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Baseball field goats and fossils. Nothing too much finer. This looks like a lot of fun!

Fossil is a cool little community. My last time there was at the 2017 solar eclipse and I stopped for food and ice. I didn't know about the fossil dig site then. When growing up in Nevada, My grandfather hauled diatomaceous earth from an area in central Nevada. On weekends he would take me there to hunt fossils. We would find mostly fish and some concretions but the material was so soft that all it took was a hatchet to split. I wish I still had some of those. The concretions never looked like much so I don't know what they were.

very extraordinary quest friends. great videos.

We like places like that and yes stone rose is fun too. Thanks for sharing and good splitting.

What a fun little adventure ❤ thanks for sharing!

Thank you for filming this site - it's definitely on my list, but it's nice to see what it looks like.

I love the video. I havent been to Fossil in years. Im surprised you didnt find more than goats running free there lol 🙂 I spent many a day there back when i was younger, my husband (now ex ,lol,) is from Fossil. It looks like the site is as well maintained as it always was. It was always a sleepy little town but I loved it there. Im surprised that theres any fossils left tho. I dont know which way you traveled to get to Fossil but back down the road aways, past service creek, is where they did the big digs where all the prehistoric animals and such were found , even have a small museum of what they found. There use to be a small maintained dig site there for the public but that was in the 80's. Who knows now lol Cant wait to see your next video Thanks for bringing back memories with this one 🤗

Nice finds! Where I live it's crinoid stems and brachiopods, brachiopods and crinoid stems. Totally different ecologies and time frames.

5 bucks a person and 3 fossils what an awesome deal and fun day out

Random city goats. Baseball field goats. I laughed so hard 😂 Very nice fossils. Looked like a decent place as far as fossil hunting places go. You guys found quite a bit. I agree with tapping gently, and the rock usually breaks where the fossil is. Fun video. I enjoyed it. I absolutely love fossils. Thanks for sharing.

Great fossils. Leaves this week dinosaurs next week.

Some of my best amethyst finds here in Colorado was in a small stream bed right next to a baseball / softball field. Would LOVE to expose and hound up some fossils like you guys are finding. What a fun adventure!

I stopped by here as a kid! Looks the same practically lol! Fun stuff thanks for the video as always

Great video!

Pretty groovy branching out in to less familiar territory. Some of those have great detail with all the leafy veins. I always think of Weird Al when you mention aluminum foil. Glad to see they made it back safe. You as well!

Texas has good fossils to hunt

Was there a few days ago and since I have some mobility issues decided just to break up some of the rocks that others discarded. Found same as you but in smaller pieces. If you get a chance to visit their museum and the city hall the people in this town are wonderful! I was there on the last day of school and it was hot. Still one of the best days ever! The donation box is run on the honor system and all the money goes back into the school’s fund to be used for the arts. As a retired teacher I put a 20 in the box as it was a good cause!

I always wondered about that spot! Thanks for making the trip and the video!

Very cool, I will be going on a little fossil dig in north Texas in a couple of weeks…

Cannot wait to see this adventure when I get back home later~ Excellent stuff folks!

Always glad to see another fossil video! 😉 You really *branched* out on this one… 😂 That’s a nice locality with a very reasonable fee. I like one of the other commenter’s suggestion of making your five pieces some thick chunks of the productive seam, and taking them back home to process. Nice plates!

Those are cool fossils! Maybe not as prevalent as the stone rose ones wrre but huge plates and some really full plares too. But the ones you two brought back are really nice and the goats were friendly if you werent a dog! Laika didnt know what to think of them! Its their eyes. They are just suspicious looking! Lol! Freat video and i love fossils and rhise were really nice ones too! Thanks Jared and Sarah!

Been there once. Great locality. Another good Miocene fossil locality is the racetrack at Clarkia, Idaho. This is private property but the fee is reasonable, and this can be a day trip from Spokane.

I did this gig about 15 years ago. It was $3 for all you could fit in your two hands cupped together. Also, Meta-Sequoia is the official Oregon State Fossil. Nice that you found some. Since I'm not much of a fossil guy, I gave mine all away. Oh, and I found a fish and was told we were not able to keep it.

So cool. We'll have to check this out. My son would love it. (Twenty four years old with special needs.) He loves rock hounding and this would be so cool for him to split shale type sediment and find cool things!❤

it looks allot like Burlington Chert that i use to made arrow points.

We collected there many times starting back in the early 70’s. There was no limit and no charge to collect. Only real collector’s seemed to show up to collect. When they started charging a fee we saw large families, totally unprepared for fossil collecting, come in and turn their kids loose with ordinary hammers and screwdrivers. The kids would pound away on the seams not even knowing what to look for and most certainly destroyed a very large amount of fossil shale. Then the parents would always be in a bad mood and yell at the kids because no one was finding anything. We were often out in 115 to 120+ temperatures and of course the families had no shade tents or water. The charging of a fee made this spot hit the “ must see tourist areas” in Oregon. So people who had no business being there made all the collectors suffer. I never saw anyone take any large amounts of material and the limit of 3 fossils is ridiculous. We finally decided to find thick slabs with a small fossil showing and take that home to work on in more controlled surroundings. Just needed three thick slabs each and we often could get several really nice fossils. We donated a lot of specimens to colleges and collectors who were not able to travel to Fossil. Never going back again…..way too old now…..almost a fossil!

It would be neat to see a time lapse through a big slab of this.

The Goats 😂😂😂

This was a great video! Now, me being new to identification, I'm curious to what rock/stone these fossils are in??

Nah man you're good! You can actually identify some of the different leaves. In my area it's all crinoids and parts of crinoids. I haven't even begun to delve into individual species.

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Grew up here. Doesn't cost money if you sneak in. There usually isn't anyone there.

Is your dog an American Indian dog? It's really beautiful.

Are you allowed to keep bony fish up there in Washington? If so, is it strictly specimens dug from private claim/private property or is BLM land considered in the clear? Out where I live bony fish and vertebrates are a no-go on BLM land, but okay on private properties. (If I recall correctly)