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How to build an Empire with a Petrified Forest, 7 Extraordinary Pictures
The Petrified Forest National Park.
How to build an Empire with a Petrified Forest? Find one big log, buy it and transform it in small pieces to sell and make new things…decorative art, jewels etc. Repeat.
Last month I visit parts of this impressive forest during my road trip of 5 days from California to Texas.
Gabrielle Maple: Petrified forest is a lot of dead trees in the desert that have turned to stone. Here’s a good specimen.
Alan Squier: So that was once a tree? Hmmm. Petrified forest, eh? Suitable haven for me. Well, perhaps that’s what I’m destined to become, an interesting fossil for future study. ~from the film, The Petrified Forest.
I went to the museum, the shop and walk around the area to see samples of petrified wood and views of the badlands. I was impressed and terrified at the same time.
The Petrified Forest National Park is located in northeastern Arizona.
It is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.
