October 07, 2011 |
October 14, 2011, Sidetracked: The Struggle for BC’s Fossils
Vivien Lougheed
Smithers Public Library
Friday, October 14, 2011
7:00 pm
Vivien Lougheed's Sidetracked: The Struggle for BC's Fossils documents the conflicts between amateur and professional paleontologists in BC with a focus on the discovery of a major dinosaur trackway in Kakwa Provincial Park.
Dr. David Raup, renowned paleontologist, wrote in his foreword:
Lougheed has delved deeply into a nest of such problems involving BC fossils – most notably the spectacularly preserved tracks of dinosaurs in Kakwa Provincial Park. And she has done a splendid job of putting these incidents in a broader context of BC and Alberta paleontology as well as cases farther afield – including Pete Larson’s prison term in South Dakota. Partly because the broader context is so well developed, this book should be required reading for all amateur fossil collectors and, especially, the professionals. I am not aware of any treatment as broad or as balanced as this one.