The San Joaquin Valley Paleontology Foundation, in partnership with Madera County, is in the process of developing a unique and exciting Fossil Discovery Center. The project will be located at the Fairmead landfill in Madera County, the site of one of the largest middle-Pleistocene fossil excavations in North America. These fossils are of particular significance for California and the western United States because there are few sites known from this time period, especially with so many species present. The facility will interpret both the paleontology activity and the landfill activity. These diverse themes will be united by showing how the world of the past became the world of the present, and how our current activities, including waste disposal, will create the world of the future. The museum is planned to be operational in early 2008.
