Lilydale Regional Park Fossil Hunting Tragedy - Two Months Later

[Oxytropidoceras]

Why Lilydale Regional Park is a good place for fossils

by Tom Crann, Minnesota Public Radio, July 25, 2013

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/07/25/lilydale-fossil-hunting

Two months after fatal landslide, a look back, MPR

News, July 23, 2013, http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/07/24/daily-circuit-fatal-landslide

What caused the Lilydale landslide? by Phil Picardi,

Minnesota Public Radio, May 23, 2013

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/05/23/satish_gupta

Deadly landslide raises questions about bluff's

safety, by Curtis Gilbert, MPR News, May 24, 2013,

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/05/24/news/landslide-bluff-safety

Parents say school should have warned them of

angers before Lilydale park landslide by Curtis

Gilbert and Trisha Volpe,MPR News, July 24, 2013

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/07/24/education/lilydale-landslide-liability

Previous thread about this tragedy is "2 Kids

Killed Looking For Fossils In Minnesota Park" at

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/37673-2-kids-killed-looking-for-fossils-in-minnesota-park/?hl=lilydale

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 26, 2013 by Oxytropidoceras

[squalicorax]

Thanks Paul.

I am glad they are reopening the park as I am always grateful for communities providing this type of spot. Its nice to see the city move on from the tragedy and help prevent future ones.

[Dave Bailey]

A tragedy, to be sure. But we don't close beaches because some children drown, we don't close schools because someone goes on a shooting rampage, and we don't ban bicycles because sometimes children get hit by cars. The best way to honour their memory is to let others learn about the history of our planet, as those children were trying to do.