Paleontologist Aims to Preserve Mountain

September 24, 2007

(AP) -- The Robledo Mountains' reputation as one of the world's most important landscapes of pre-dinosaur fossil trackways likely will be enhanced by another discovery - petrified wood slowly emerging from the desert floor.

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