They leave their sleeping places in the sides of the marl hills and roll to levels below.
What is a National Monument?
An area set aside by the President of the United States to preserve regions of scientific, historic or prehistoric interest.
What is the area of the Petrified Forest National Monument?
25,908 acres.
Who has charge of it?
The National Park Service, one of the largest and the most important bureaus of the Department of the Interior. A custodian and several Park Rangers are the immediate representatives of the Government on the Reservation.
Courtesy National Park Service
As the soil slowly settles beneath these giants their weight dismembers them. In this way they were broken in the lengths we find them now.