FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Delores Linn
January 3, 2012
(701) 623-4355
MEDORA -- A program entitled “The Geology of southwestern North Dakota” will be presentedSaturday, January 14 at 2 p.m. (MT) at the Chateau de Mores Interpretive Center in Medora. The program will be presented by Eric Brevik, associate professor of geology and soils at Dickinson State University.
The program is free and open to the public.
The program will include information on why and how the Badlands formed, important geologic processes shaping the Badlands, and common rock units and geologic features found in the Badlands.
Brevik has taught at Dickinson State University since 2007. He earned a doctorate degree in soil science from Iowa State University, and master of science and bachelor of science degrees in geology from the University of North Dakota. He has also served as a consultant to the National Park Service, conducting geology training for seasonal rangers at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and participated in geologic resource inventories at Knife River Indian Villages and Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Sites.
The interpretive center is open year-round. It is currently operating on its winter schedule, which remains in effect through May 15. Winter schedule hours are Wednesdays through Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time. Summer hours, in place from May 16 through September 15, are daily from 8:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Mountain Time.
The interpretive center is part of the 128-acre state historic site that interprets the enterprises of the Marquis de Mores, the French nobleman and entrepreneur who in the 1880s ran a cutting-edge meatpacking plant in Medora, the town he founded and named after his wife. The site is managed by the state’s history agency, the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
The Chateau de Mores State Historic Site Interpretive Center is closed only on New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Admission is $7 per adult, $3 per child ages 6-15, and children 5 and under are admitted free.
Free admission to all sites administered by the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND) is one of the many benefits for members of the SHSND Foundation. Others include a 15 percent discount on museum store purchases, and the quarterly publications North Dakota History and Plains Talk. To become a member, call the Foundation at (701) 222-1966 or visit the website at www.statehistoricalfoundation.com.
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