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Washington Petrified Forests-Ginkgo Exotic Forest, George F. Beck
Washington Petrified Forests-Ginkgo Exotic Forest, George F. Beck
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Seven years ago we began our study of the Ginkgo Petrified Forest in Central Washington. This is in reality a series of forests occurring at various horizons in the Yakima ( and Wenas?) basalts throughout a vertical range of some 2,000 feet, and in a belt 150 miles long, and 50 miles wide, centering at Vantage on the Columbia River.
Arrowhead Making In The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, George F. Beck
Arrowhead Making In The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, George F. Beck
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In a sense we must give the Indians credit for being the original discoverers of these fossil forests of Central Washington. Not that I have been able to run down any legends or traditions regarding fossil logs or any certainty that the Indians recognized them as trees in stone. My opinion is that they could not have failed to recognize them as trees. Be that as it may, they long ago took recognition of the fact that certain logs were to be prized as the source of flint for their arrow-heads.