The area selected for proclamation lies immediately to the south of the Lusaka-Chirundu Road, twenty-one kilometers from Chirundu, at the corner of the north Kariba Access Road, and is in the centre of a much larger area over which wood can be found.

Sections of tree trunks up to two to three metres in length are exposed here as a result of the erosion of the soft red sandstones which are of Karroo or Secondary age. Scattered over the area are sparse Middle and Late Stone Age industries, indicating that these people sometimes made use of fossil wood for making stone implements.

The fossil trees belong to the Karroo period and are approximately 150,000,000 years old.

The Law prohibits the removal of specimens as souvenirs, or for any other purpose and visitors are most earnestly requested to obey this requirement.