Once again, BPS members visited a coal mine in Walker County, Alabama, where many varieties of plant fossils were found.

BPS members visited a private museum owned by one of our newest members - wonderful specimens, as he has worked around mines most of his life. Then we went to Taft Coal mine in Walker County, Alabama for collecting.

BPS members collected in the Bangor Limestone in Franklin County, Alabama, and made several stops at roadcuts in the area.

No field trip this month, instead we had a holiday party at Leisa's home.

We collected in Cherokee County, Alabama, in the pebbles and shaley outcrops around a lake, which was low for the winter, exposing a wide shoreline.

We attended a Christmas party this month at the home of one of our members.  No field trip this month.

BPS members collected in coal mines in Walker County, Alabama again this month. Fossils are prolific in the spoil piles of these mines.

This month BPS members collected in several Walker County, Alabama coal strip mines.

BPS members collected in and around a river in Covington County, Alabama this month. Numerous shark teeth, ray teeth, bones and various shell material was found.

BPS members took a long road trip to roadcuts in Colbert County on August 25, where everyone found a good selection of blastoids, brachiopods, trilobites, and other Mississippian age fossils at two separate collecting sites.