Fossil Dig

Join us at our outdoor nature education center for a day of paleontology that includes digging up your own (replica) fossils from the ground! Discover and put together the bones of a Microraptor, take home a collection of shark, dinosaur, and megafauna teeth, and unearth (and paint) your very own ammonite!

Price: $40 per child

Itinerary: 12 PM to 4 PM

Meet Location: Salzmann Park, 3408 70th Ave E, Fife, WA 98424

Packing List: Day Hiking

Please note that your child will be digging through sand and dirt in search of 3D printed fossils, and send them with clothes and shoes that are appropriate.

Highlights

Exploration – Growing and learning in the outdoors – Building friendships

Our mission is to make outdoor recreation accessible to all. If you cannot afford the total trip cost, request sliding scale pricing here:

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“It [Lushootseed] is from the beginning strength of the people, and it is from what the Creator put down upon this land for people…. The earth speaks. The animals speak. Everything has a voice.”

Vi Hilbert, Grandmother Video Project

The Puyallup tribe in their own language call themselves a name that means “people from the bend at the bottom of the river.” They are one of twelve Lushootseed speaking tribes in the Puget Sound region. The language of Lushootseed has vast diversity and multiple dialects, with each group having their own way of speaking. All dialects were to be honored and respected, reflecting the values of Lushootseed culture such as ‘Be kind, be helpful, be sharing.’

The Lushootseed speaking peoples called the mountain that dominated their horizon Tacoma or Tahoma, a word that may have meant “the mother of all waters.” The Puyallup tribe is calling on the state of Washington to rename the mountain from its current official name of “Rainier.”

Today, the Puyallup Tribe is a recognizable force in the fight for tribal rights, and were a significant player in the Boldt Decision of 1974, establishing the rights of Native Americans in Washington State to fish using traditional methods.

~ This information was found on PuyallupTribe.com