Local dinosaur hunters bring bones back to the Flathead
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.