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.

BPS members went to a Clarke County site where whale fossils have been found in the past, but none were found on this day.

Several times during the summer, members collected in north Jefferson county, in an area being cleared for a shopping center.

This month BPS members took a long weekend, from June 15-17, driving to several quarries near Wilmington, North Carolina where Ashley had made arrangements to collect.

On June 9-10, BPS members spent the weekend in Loundes County, Alabama, where they found Cretaceous fossils. Numerous fossilized crabs and shark teeth were collected on this field trip.

BPS took several trips to an abandoned strip mine, where numerous nodules containing fern spore pods were found.  This was on a trip with a visiting paleontologist.