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[above left]
Clear road ahead. Getting to remote hunting locations sometimes
required long journeys on unpaved routes [top
right] The NJPS West 2001 crew, from left to righ: Howie Cohn,
Tom Caggiano, Andy Abdul, Steve Balliet, Fred Ackerman, and Geoff Notkin
[kneeling] [center
right] Rainy forecourt at one of the many gas stations
we visited during our 4,200 mile journey across the United States [bottom
right] The back of Tom's stalwart "fossil van"
was loaded with almost anything the mobile paleontologist could wish
for: an extensive array of tools, a sledgehammer, packing crates, burlap
and plaster of Paris for jacketing large fossils, Butvar, coolers, reference
books and . . . well, you name it! Up front, Steve Balliet carefully
plotted our route with a dash-mounted GPS connected to a laptop and
mapping software.
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