This spring, L.L.B.N. wants to help you feel great out there, with gear tips and advice for heading outdoors and exploring all the possibilities of this season.

Here's a simple tip to help you stick to your goals for the new year.

Take a walk outside.

In one study, researchers found that just an hour spent walking in nature

improved participants' attention spans and memory by 20%.

If you're having trouble focusing some time outside could be the answer.

For more fun ideas, easy how-tos, and inspiring stories,

visit L.L.Bine.com slash guide. And the Oh, In the grassy high plains of northwest Nebraska, the landscape is punctuated by

flat top beautes and a few isolated landforms reminiscent of the Bad Lands.

A layer of sandstone builds the foundation of the area

sitting over a remarkable bonebed.

The grasslands provided good grazing and James Cook acquired his ranch here where the wetlands meet the prairie

Unbeknownst to him when he purchased the land and his cattle grazed on the nodding heads of grain beneath their feet the

land and his cattle grazed on the nodding heads of grain.

Beneath their feet lay a remarkable history of animals that came before them, the mammals

of the Miocene Epic.

Dinosaur Fossils tickle everyone's imagination, but other more recent, albeit

still ancient, paleontology discoveries give rise to a continuum of long extinct animals indigenous to a region.

As much as we tend to think of museums as focusing on dinosaurs,

with examples such as the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton

named Sioux, which is housed at the Field Museum of Chicago.

Museums also have extensive displays on the history of the rise of mammals.

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