"Only a handful of nutty professors care about this, right or is this really a big deal?"
I care. My guess would be the locals and the Indians care, too.
The looting is taking place on public lands, set aside to preserve preserve the natural state.
There are wild horse herds in this area. Is is far off any beaten path.
My father was born and grew up nearby. Not far away is one of the best museums in the world: The Buffalo Bill Historical Center
http://www.bbhc.org/index_flash.cfm
Exhibits (permanent) include:
The Wild West (Buffalo Bill Cody)
Plains Indians
American Firearms
Western Art
Yellowstone Ecosytstem
Several tribes roamed these areas, Crow, Shoshone, Arapaho. Custers Last Stand is within 75 miles, or so.
Ping for later.
Sorry if I bent your feathers, but if they are "public lands" then one would expect public traffic to diminish
the availability of discarded arrowheads, worn out spears and the like and if a dinosaur remnant is found around any of these areas the whole area is going to be leveled put in
tupperware and Fed-ex'ed to some university never to be heard from again.Besides I was under the impression that only cave dwellers left any substantial evidence of their past existience the rest has been swallowed up by strip malls and fast food joints.