Excerpt from Environmental Assessment: Develop Visitor, Administrative, and Maintenance Facilities, Fossil Butte National Monument, Lincoln County, Wyoming At the present time, Fossil Butte has no permanent visitor, administrative, or maintenance facilities. The existing temporary facilities are in poor condition, occasionally overcrowded, aunt inappropriately located. Chicken Creek Road is gravel surfaced and in very poor condition. The visitor contact station serves as the primary reception and interpretive point upon entry into the monument. It is located just off Lincoln County Road 300 at the southeast edge of the monument (see Visitor, Administrative, and Maintenance Facilities map). The visitor contact station is not winterized and, consequently, is closed six months of the year. The facility consists of a 12-foot x 60-foot trailer, 400-foot - long gravel access road, a ten-vehicle gravel-surfaced parking area, vault toilets, and an interpretive trail that leads to an historic fossil-quarry site. There are no provisions for physically-handicapped visitors. The main exhibit room accommodates a maximum of 15 persons at one time and the fossil preparation room accommodates only six. Interpretive exhibits are poorly designed and constructed, and there is insufficient storage for paleontological materials. Some fossils are now stored in a 10-foot x 10-foot shed located several miles east of the monument. Utilities are limited to electrical and aerial and/or buried telephone service. Potable water is hauled from Kemmerer. Administrative office Space is in Kemmerer, Wyoming which is 12 miles east of Fossil Butte. Monument staff share a leased building with a number of other unrelated businesses. Because of the small size of the staff, protection and interpretation of the monument's resources would be better facilitated if staff offices were on site. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.