CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
The Wild West Dino Den (WWDD) has access to purchase several museum-quality full body casts of dinosaurs excavated from Big Horn County and has organized a donor campaign to do so. The WWDD currently has a collection of museum-quality casts of dinosaur eggs, a baby sauropod skeleton, and has on order a cast of an adult allosaur all collected over the decades from the Big Horn Basin. The display of the WWDD’s collection plus the future casts and fossils we seek to acquire has been offered as a long-term loan to the Town of Greybull. The Town of Greybull is currently in a capital campaign that, if successful, would provide an adequate space for scientifically accurate displays in a reasonable timeframe. Continued relationships with the researchers and museums who are supporters of this effort could result in loans of other original and unique fossils from Big Horn County for display. The initial funding goal for the fossils and fossil reproductions is $400,000.
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In addition, $500,000 to $1,000,000 is being sought for the construction of the displays that will support the acquired fossils.
Our Funding Goal
WWDD hopes to raise $400,000 for these five and others not yet identified.
Big Al
$100,000 (100% Funded)
World's most complete Allosaurus.
Sarah/Sophie
$100,000 (100% Funded)
One of the world’s most complete Stegosaurs.
Diplodocid
$150,000 (0% Funded)
A species of long-neck sauropod.
Baby Toni
$25,000 (100% Funded)
A rare and nearly complete juvenile sauropod.
Reconstructed Allosaurus Eggs
Donated (100% Funded)
One of only two allosaur nests discovered in the world. USNM PAL 606431, cast of BYU 13019.
Displays
$500,000 - $1,000,000 (0% Funded)
Displays and background materials to explain the fossils and their discovery.
