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Ranger Alvis Mar of Agate Fossil Beds describes his experiences working for -- and visiting -- the National Park Service as an Asian American.
- Duration:
- 6 minutes
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"It's so quiet here," so many visitors tell us.
Really? Sure, it may not be "noisy," but there's many sounds to hear on the prairie and in a National Park site, if you stop to really listen.
On this #WorldListeningDay, take a moment to absorb the sounds of the grasslands, the riparian ecosystem of the Upper Niobrara, and compare it to the sounds of our Visitor Center on a normal weekend morning.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 29 seconds
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Join Ranger Jeremy Hoyt, U.S. Navy, as he leads our visitors and rangers in a moment of silence, reading of "In Flanders Fields" and raising of the U.S. Flag to full staff at noon on Memorial Day 2021.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 41 seconds
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Harold J. Cook's letter to J.D. Figgins on September 7, 1924. Jesse Figgins was the first director of the then named Colorado Museum of Natural History. The work Harold describes in this letter depicts Figgins' crew's find of Paleo-Indian projectile points. This find proved that humans first occupied North America about 10,000 years ago. Note: It is read by Ranger Tera Lynn. It is translated into ASL; has closed-captions, audio description, and a transcript.
- Duration:
- 8 minutes, 50 seconds
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Harold J. Cook's letter to J.D. Figgins on September 17, 1924. The Gregory mentioned in this letter refers to William K. Gregory. He worked at the American Museum of Natural History. He also taught at Columbia University, which may have been where Harold first met him as a student. Note: It is read by Ranger Tera Lynn. It is translated into ASL; has closed-captions, audio description, and a transcript.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 28 seconds
Dig Up! The Latest Science from Agate
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It's International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Daniella is one of four female paleontologists who virtually shared her latest paleontological research at Agate Fossil Beds and Badlands National Park. She studies the Oxydactylus, an ancient camel. This video is captioned, audio described, and interpreted into ASL. Check out our YouTube Channel to read the questions & answers that occurred live during the program. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMOSbTgDZ-o)
- Duration:
- 17 minutes, 53 seconds
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It's International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Kristin is one of four female paleontologists who virtually shared her latest paleontological research at Agate Fossil Beds and Badlands National Park. She studies the Stenomylus, an ancient camel. This video is captioned, audio described, and interpreted into ASL. Check out our YouTube Channel to read the questions & answers that occurred live during the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctq_uaDMA9M
- Duration:
- 20 minutes, 6 seconds
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It's International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Mattison is one of four female paleontologists who virtually shared her latest paleontological research at Agate Fossil Beds and Badlands National Park. She studies the Leptomerycids, ancient deer. This video is captioned, audio described, and interpreted into ASL. Check out our YouTube Channel to read the questions & answers that occurred live during the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1rGoR5qUPA
- Duration:
- 18 minutes, 22 seconds
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It's International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Sunshyne is one of four female paleontologists who virtually shared her latest paleontological research at Agate Fossil Beds and Badlands National Park. She studies the Menoceras, an ancient rhinoceros. This video is captioned, audio described, and interpreted into ASL. Check out our YouTube Channel to read the questions & answers that occurred live during the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=degrOlMAwCk
- Duration:
- 16 minutes, 13 seconds
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This was a live YouTube Premiere on the International Women & Girls in Science Day, Feb 11, 2023. Paleontologists Kristin I. Watmore and Kate LoMedico Marriott talk about their current research with animals found in our near Agate Fossil Beds. Ms. Watmore studies Stenomylines from Agate and Ms. LoMedico Marriott studies ammonites from the Pierre Shale (just north of Agate).
Chat is available on our YouTube channel. Video is closed captioned, audio described, and interpreted in ASL.
- Duration:
- 33 minutes, 8 seconds
National Writing Project/ Write-Out Videos
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Sioux County, NE students participated in the annual Fall Science Day at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument on September 14, 2023. The theme of this year's event was "Bugs and Botany." It coincided with this year's #WriteOut hosted by the National Writing Project and the National Park Service with the theme, "Poetry, Prose, and Parks." Therefore, one of the FSD sessions introduced poetry in nature. This video is four middle school students and one of the FSD presenters, reciting their poetry. AD included.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 31 seconds
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This three-part interview, accompanied by writing prompts, highlights the friendship and cultural sharing between Chief Red Cloud and homesteader, James Cook of Agate Ranch. Through interviews with their descendants, learn about the nature of Cook and Chief Red Cloud's friendship, the gifts they exchanged, and their hope to preserve cultures.
This version is both closed-captioned and audio described.
- Duration:
- 34 minutes, 23 seconds
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This is one of four videos created for the 2023 Agate Writing Festival. The theme was Hidden Stories. Watch a ranger talk about a hidden story about the fossils. Then, a teacher from the Nebraska Writing Project walks students through the meaning of liminal space and supports them in creating their own writing using liminal space and internal dialogue.
- Duration:
- 12 minutes, 53 seconds
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This is the second of four videos for the 2023 Agate Writing Festival. Ranger AJ shares about an infamous donation to the park. Then, Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason shares how to bring the unexpected and humorous into a story. He encourages individuals to create their own writing using this method.
- Duration:
- 10 minutes, 57 seconds
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This is the third of four videos created for the 2023 Agate Writing Festival. The theme was Hidden Stories. Watch a ranger talk about how Lakota tribes used Winter Counts to recount stories. Then, a teacher from the Nebraska Writing Project walks students through the process of narrative writing and supports them in creating their own stories.
- Duration:
- 15 minutes, 32 seconds
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This is the final of four videos created for the 2023 Agate Writing Festival. The theme was Hidden Stories. This video uses the amazing story of Eleanor Barbour to teach about vignettes. Eleanor was the daughter of one of the original paleontologists at Agate, the first wife of Harold Cook from Agate Springs Ranch, and so much more. A park ranger and her granddaughter share stories of her. Then, a teacher helps students write their own vignettes.
- Duration:
- 11 minutes, 51 seconds
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Explore some of the culinary tools and food processing items that are found in the Cook collection at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument. These are items used by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribe members. They gifted these items to James Cook and his family when they were invited to the Cook ranch named Agate Springs Ranch, which would later become the monument. NOTE: Audio Description is built into the main video.
- Duration:
- 20 minutes, 41 seconds
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This video is the supplemental power point to accompany the Culinary Creativity video. It provides more background about the artifacts in the Culinary Creativity video, shares writing samples from Native American authors, and provides writing prompts based on the artifacts and the writing samples. NOTE: Audio Description is built into the main video.
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 15 seconds
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Gretchen Meade (great-granddaughter of James Cook) shares several of her family's stories at Agate Springs Ranch and what makes a story important.
- Duration:
- 19 minutes, 8 seconds
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