Sign-up for MCBONES Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site tours starts June 1
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Pictured is the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, a dig site in Kennewick. Tours for the site open June 1.
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KENNEWICK – According to a May 17 announcement from the MCBONES Research Center Foundation, sign-ups for public and group tours at the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, a dig site in Kennewick, begin June 1. Reservations can be made for June through October.
“Coyote Canyon Mammoth site tours are an excellent way to experience a real-life mammoth dig,” the statement said. “Located in Tri-Cities, WA, the site houses the MCBONES Research Center (“Dig House”) which is used for programs, analyzing, exhibiting, and storing samples collected at the Dig Site.”
All group and public tours are $10 per person. According to the announcement, reservations fill up quickly. The statement said public and group tours generally last about 1.5 hours and include a presentation about the history, discovery and findings at the site, as well as a guided tour of the laboratory activities and displays of key specimens and the interpretive panels.
The remaining time is spent at the dig site observing the actual digging of bones and participating in the wet screening operations, the statement said. Group tours will not see the actual digging and wet screening but will tour the dig site.
For more information, visit www.mcbones.org.
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