Uintah County to fund expansion of dinosaur museum.

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Vernal - UINTAH COUNTY will fund the expansion of a popular state park in Vernal. The county, through its Impact Mitigation Special Service District, will spend $1.5 million to build a new repository and lab facility for the UTAH FIELD HOUSE OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM STATE PARK.

"The community is very positive toward dinosaurs and dinosaur bones," Uintah County Commission Chairwoman Darlene Burns says. "These are things we find locally and this has been a great tourist draw."

The existing storage facility was built in 1948 as the original Field House Museum. The new 11,000-square-foot facility that Uintah County plans to break ground on in the spring will be state of the art, as far as the lab and all the latest and best...