A construction crew working on building a new tourist boardwalk to allow better viewing of dinosaur tracks at a dinosaur tracksite in Utah has upset the project by wiping out some of the dinosaur footprints that were to be viewed from the walk.
Construction crews removing the wooden pallets of the old boardwalk at Mill Canyon “impacted track-bearing surfaces with vehicles… As a result, trace fossils were damaged,” according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which says it will now re-evaluate the project ensure crews are properly briefed.
Surveyors on the project say that the fossils were in an area marked in the plans as “cleared for traffic,” although carefully-preserved (until now) crocodile tracks were located there. The Bureau has come under criticism from researchers for poor performance.
