HUGE Petrified LOGS: Rockhounding in Wyoming

Check out the GIGANTIC pieces of petrified wood! In this video, Kate and Jim go rockhounding in a different spot - northern Wyoming! The spot is very near the Petrified Forest, the Dry Creek Petrified Tree Environmental Area, where visitors can walk a short loop trail and see gigantic trees that got petrified where they stood! The giant trees aren't limited to Dry Creek, and Kate discovered a treasure trove of them while hunting for rocks on BLM land near Buffalo. Limits for collection on BLM lands is 25 lbs. per day, so none of the giant pieces made it back with them - but there are plenty of pictures and videos to remember them by! It's a fantastic hunt on a sunny day in a new place - come along!
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[@KatyDidRocks]

Sorry about the confusion with the premiere - I'm in the wrong time zone!

[@janettetippetts7942]

I remember when my dad and his three rockhounding friends went out to a place they knew that had large pieces of pieces of petrified wood. It took them all day to dig out, chain wrap, and somehow loaded a LARGE Petrified Trunk into the bed of his pickup truck. It was about it was about 30" tall and had a circumference of about 8 or 9 feet around. At the time the loaded it, it was in one whole piece. They built some kind of ramp and pully system to get it loaded. They were so exhausted from all that work that when they got it home and backed the truck up to where Dad wanted it in the front yard. They all just pulled it out with the chain around it using one of the other men's truck and let it fall to the ground. When it did, it cracked in two pieces. This was back in the late 1960's. And it was still there when my mom died, and my brother sold the house in 2021. Good memories... Looks like you and Mr. Did had a great time finding some phenomenal pieces!

[@KatyDidRocks]

That is wild! :)

[@wyomingadventures]

My home town. I did a video last fall on the Dry Creek area. It's definitely coal. I'm glad you guys found some cool rocks.

[@savagesquirrel9828]

Wow. You must have found BLM land near the “forest”. It is dull wood compared to the Yellowstone, but you guys always find great stuff! Thanks.

[@josephcase3105]

Hi Kate an Jim , @7:00 into the video I'm pretty certain in actuality that's limestone instead of Mudstone. Glad your having a lot of fun. I bet that's a great trip out there. Lucky to be there indeed , it's very beautiful there :)

[@largent45]

Holy cow! That stump was enormous! I'm glad you got a small piece of it though! What a gorgeous area! And that colorful rock you found in the petrified wood quarry was just amazing and I really hope you grabbed that one too! I would gladly put back a chunk of pet wood for that beauty! Man, there are some amazing rocks out there!❣️ Speaking of amazing rocks, when my package from the auction arrived, imagine my surprise when I found the very stromatolite you had found in the last video of yours I just watched like the day before! Thank you so much Kate! That stromatolite means more to me than the auction wins! All the rocks were pretty and my pet wood slab is amazing! It got a bit damaged in transport but I found most of the pieces and I'm repairing it and it will be as good as new! It's really so beautiful and the my stromatolite has a place of honor on my display shelf among my fossil collection! Thank you sooo very much Kate❣️ You're the best❣️

[@KatyDidRocks]

Oh, I’m so sorry about your wood slab - darn it! I’m glad you liked the stromatolite. 😊

[@largent45]

@@KatyDidRocks the slab just had some of the polished sides break off, and I found the pieces and I'm repairing it. It will be fine!

[@patriciamckean4186]

Petrified wood is so beautiful.

[@KatyDidRocks]

It really is.

[@ClassicRock76]

@@KatyDidRocks That piece of wood near the end with all the grain was unbelievably beautiful. I always think of the agatized wood as "the prettiest". But that one takes no back seat to Yellowstone wood.

[@debbieneel8344]

I also carry a long handle screw driver for prying out

[@debbieneel8344]

👍🏼

[@Jamey-to4sn]

Waiting on an upload. Hope to see one soon 😊

[@KatyDidRocks]

Hi, Jamey! I upload a new video (almost) every Sunday at 5 Mountain time. Premiere tonight: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poSthoqQg5imipY

[@Jamey-to4sn]

@@KatyDidRocks and what a great one it was ty

[@patriciabock4299]

Amazing petrified wood! Added this location to my future travel destination!

[@KatyDidRocks]

Definitely worth a visit.

[@anahkagemsmychanal-iq6dz]

👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️

[@KatyDidRocks]

:)

[@kastah]

One rock at 7.06, reminded me of rocks I have seen in Norway, but I have never heard or thought that it is something "interesting". Loved that red at 7.36, very special. There was actually a lot of nice gemstones and rocks. Loved that area, special, we have nothing like that in my country. wow. so interesting to be in another location, thank you two for the tour.

[@KatyDidRocks]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@jessewilson8676]

Con grats on 20k subs..getting up there.

[@KatyDidRocks]

Thanks - it's been a journey :D

[@kirsiselei8703]

Woow, what a great place to find so many awesome rocks❤👋🇫🇮

[@KatyDidRocks]

It really was amazing.

[@anneallen2690]

Thank you ❤❤❤

[@KatyDidRocks]

Thank YOU!

[@felaghumra]

Oh Hey, I've been there before! It's a beautiful area. The pieces are pretty soft, but will polish reasonably well. I will warn you though, of you ever go back to the area, be wary of any really soft and crumbly petrified wood if it's really yellow, especially if there's selenite in/on it as it seems to be carnotite replaced which is a bit radioactive. As with most radioactive stuff it's fine in glass, but be careful! (You might already know all this, but just wanted to mention it!)

[@KatyDidRocks]

Hey there - I definitely did NOT know! That's really interesting. I don't think I picked up any super soft stuff, but I'll be sure to be on the lookout.

[@Mrjoshuasjourneyzzz10420]

Great video!!!

[@KatyDidRocks]

Thanks, Josh. :)

[@michaelvandyke6715]

Now that's a hounding trip ... Nice! Isn't 25#'s per day, plus one? (Which can be any size)...

[@KatyDidRocks]

Apparently it only applies to petrified wood - but I need to look into the specifics. :)

[@janehelbert7551]

Enjoyed this hunt!

[@KatyDidRocks]

Mt too!

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Wow you're in rock country

[@KatyDidRocks]

For sure!

[@brianegeberg8497]

This wood is similar to that in ND Badlands area, Last year we found a remote petrified forest outside of the park that was really neat...spent a week roaming around that area, go see the dinosaur tracks...

[@KatyDidRocks]

I’ve seen wood from the Badlands - really great!

[@meanstreet1545]

Definitely not youngite, the only place it’s been found and known to exist is near Guernsey and the caves it was originally found in are now underwater beneath Guernsey reservoir. A random piece of float is still occasionally found in that immediate area but it is very rare! And the other darker stones are 100% not black jade, it doesn’t occur in that portion of Wyoming. Mostly located in central Wyoming with some pieces reportedly found as far east as glendo. The cleavage isn’t even similar and the fortifications are one dead giveaway, that doesn’t occur in nephrite. Also look at the way the stone breaks or for chips, if it’s got conchoidal fractures it’s not jade. Great video as always!

[@KatyDidRocks]

Thanks, meanstreet! Identifying jade was problematic for me (as you can see,) as I've never really worked with it or handled it.

[@nicholasnewton6775]

Was this private property?

[@KatyDidRocks]

No, sir, it was BLM land.

[@wyomingadventures]

There are a lot of BLM east of Buffalo.

[@FSCHW]

@@KatyDidRockswhat is BLM?

[@BarbaraM-ro3xq]

BLM...Bureau of Land Management. Federal land, not privately owned.

[@FSCHW]

@@BarbaraM-ro3xq thank you.

[@Charley_Buehner]

Clarification, in case it didn't come across right -- according to the BLM rep at the recent Miles City Gem & Mineral Show, the 25 pound limit applies only to petrified wood (25 pounds "plus one piece"). Anything specimen over 250lb is potentially available to collect via special permit. Other rocks, and invertebrate fossils, etc, are just "reasonable amounts" which is a wholly unenforceable number, and not likely to attract attention of any kind if you're not showing up in like a dump truck or something ;-) Of course, whatever it happens to be, you ~still~ gotta carry it back to the truck, so, yeah... 🙂

[@KatyDidRocks]

Thank you so much for the clarification!!!

[@ClassicRock76]

@charley.buehner I'm glad you added that as I was noting the same thing when visiting MT last year and getting the regulations. I found the part about fossils to be quite interesting too. Invertebrates only. If you find petrified bones, you are supposed to log it and let them know the location as that could lead to a geological dig.

[@Charley_Buehner]

@@ClassicRock76 As I understand it, there's currently not much of a reporting mechanism for potential finds - which is something that we also discussed at the BLM booth. I gave them a proposal for streamlining that process, something that may or may not ever see the light of day, but was worth running up the flagpole at least. As it stands today, if someone sees a dinosaur bone on public lands, there's not really much of anything they can do with it. And if it's visible today, it will be disintegrated within a couple of years. "Save it for future visitors to see" is the general motto everyone seems to spout off - well, future visitors won't see it, because it'll have weathered away into dust. The only current hope is for the explorers to 'just happen' to have a few connections in the paleontology field that they can call, to begin some kind of reporting process. I'm betting the average rockhound doesn't have that resource readily available 😕

[@ClassicRock76]

@@Charley_Buehner Thanks for that information, which is disappointing to say the least. I was talking to a Paleontologist at the Badlands last years and they may have been commenting on finding fossilized bones within the park system(s). But I would have thought that they would be interested in any vertebrate fossils anywhere. As you are better connected than I am, you are certainly aware that some of the best finds are on private land and if they're important ones are worth a lot. Sue the T-Rex is a great example.

[@Charley_Buehner]

@@ClassicRock76 It could probably be said that the best finds are on private land, #1, because that's the only places people feel free to look, and #2, I'd suspect many legitimate finds on public lands probably go unreported (although not necessarily uncollected... )

[@lindaleehulsey3167]

📹 👁👁 like crater! Meteor slammed the area 1000's of years ago....... Like on MOON, like on MARS 📷 😊📷

[@KatyDidRocks]

It sure could be!