AM: Senate Panel Kills Paleontology Bill

The Senate State Affairs Committee this morning voted to kill HB 620, regarding vertebrate paleontology, a measure from the state Historical Society that would assign responsibility for such finds to the Idaho Museum of Natural History, which has expertise in the area, as additional discoveries are anticipated with federal stimulus-funded construction projects around the state. More here /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. (Photo: Betsy Russell, SR).

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