Local dinosaur hunters bring bones back to the Flathead
NorthWest Montana Fossils owners Chantel and Aamon Jaeger and preparator Zane Rhyneer pose with their archosaurs from Arizona, in the process of being cleaned for research and display at their Lake Blaine Road home on Thursday, June 6. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Aamon Jaeger’s friends and family tried to dissuade him when he started buying land in Arizona, site-unseen, off of eBay in the hopes of finding petrified wood.
“It was cheap kind of desert land, but there’s fossils. So for someone like us, it could be a gold mine, it could be really fun,” Jaeger said.
Jaeger started out as a tattoo artist at Tree of Life Tattoo in Whitefish with a fossil-hunting passion. A decade ago, he started with 10 acres of unfarmable, dry land with hardly a road to it in Arizona. Now, after years of digging and the purchase of a total 480 acres, he has brought his third large invertebrate find back to his home state of Montana.
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