National parks director: Waco Mammoth Site should be part of system - Waco Tribune-Herald
After an hourlong tour of the site, Jarvis said he had no question that the Waco Mammoth Site was worthy of the national park system. Or would they like the National Park Service to be one more partner. “We are all-in for the Waco Mammoth Site. The standing-room-only crowd included everyone from college students, scientists, teachers, parents, local politicians past and present, and Paul Barron, who co-discovered the site as a teenager in 1978. He said that when he found the first bones,... The whole journey could be completed if this could be part of the National Park Service registry, so that long after I’m a footnote of history, kids would be able to see this site. Jarvis told the crowd that the Waco Mammoth Site would be the only mammoth site in the parks system. He said it would “offer a unique educational opportunity” because it tells the story of how Columbian mammoths behaved when threatened with danger, in this case a mudslide that buried them alive. Jarvis said another selling point is the long-standing partnership among the city of Waco, Baylor University and the Waco Mammoth Foundation, which worked together to create a $4 million educational tourism attraction. “The infrastructure looks like the National Park Service designed it,” Jarvis said. Source: www.wacotrib.com
