![]() The fossils of these animals have been found nearby in some of the most extensive fossil sites in North America. Folks are quite surprised and delighted as they drive along Borrego Springs Road or S78, etc., to see just off to the side of the road is a Sabertooth Cat or a Colombian Mammoth. There are three non-contiguous square miles of desert comprising the Galleta Meadows land that has these wonderful iron sculptures scattered about. He dubbed these huge hammered iron sculptures “Sky Art” and the first of these amazing, intricate sculptures was installed in 2008 on the Galleta Meadows land. During Spring each year, many folks would enjoy the annual flower bloom that can be seen there.Ī man of many interests, Avery commissioned ‘Perris Jurassic Park’ Mexican owner/artist/welder Ricardo Breceda to create steel welded sculptures that would reflect the paleontological history of the area based on drawings from a book about fossils found in the Anza-Borrego Desert. He kept almost all of this land undeveloped, unfenced and open to the public and named it Galleta Meadows. Avery, bought a substantial amount of property in Borrego Springs, California during the savings and loan crisis period of the 1980s and 1990s when land values dropped precipitously. The heir to the Avery Dennison label fortune, philanthropist Dennis S. There is an interesting story about the large iron sculptures of Borrego Springs. So, unable to resist, we headed for Borrego Springs, California. Some friends told us that Borrego Springs was a must see sending us photos of large sculptures of prehistoric creatures that had lived and left their fossil remains in the Borrego Springs area starting about seven million years ago when this area was a wet, jungle-like forest.
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