(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Mary Beth Bennis-Smith, left, and Heather Finlayson with the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah, take their 14-foot Utahraptor for a walk inside the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. The 135-million-year old dinosaur will be the namesake for a proposed state park for Dalton Wells, a quarry outside Moab that yielded the first Utahraptor specimens.
Brian Maffly has worked for The Tribune off and on since 1994. Maffly roams Utah, covering public land and environment.