The area from Standish-Litchfield fanning out towards Honey Lake and Wendel from time to time has unearthed a number of prehistoric dinosaur bones. In 1923, Fred Williams was examining the newly constructed Eagle Lake ditch for the Bly project spotted a large twenty-two pound bone. It was later determined that it was a prehistoric mastodon bone.
The Lassen County’s Road Department Standish Pit has witnessed over the years a number of of prehistoric bones. The specimens in turn were donated to the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley. J.H. Hutchison of the museum informed the county that finds of mastodons are fairly rare.