The Stonerose Interpretive Center & Eocene Fossil Site is a 501c non-profit public museum and fossil dig located in Republic, Washington. The center was established in 1989 and houses fossils that hav
Sign at Boot Hill 1992
"Wes" Wehr, 1998
Florissantia quilchenensis, Stonerose Interpretive Center Collection, 2007
Wesley Wehr
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Wesley Conrad Wehr was an American paleontologist and artist best known for his studies of Cenozoic fossil floras in western North America, the Stonerose Interpretive Center, and as a part of the Nort
Stonerose Interpretive Center
…and numerous scientific works. The original fossil site, located along Highway 20 in Republic Ferry County, was first discovered in 1977 by artist Wesley "Wes" Wehr and paleontologist Kirk Johnson, then a high school student from Seattle. The idea for the Stonerose Interpretive Center was the result of conversations…
Fossil Rhus malloryi leaf, described by Wolfe and Wehr in 1987
A Pseudolarix wehrii cone