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.
"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."
The area is not densely populated. The nearest "city" is Billings, about 2 hours away. Billings has 40,000 population, making it the biggest city in Montana.
The adjacent section of Wyoming is closer to Billings, than other "principle" cities in Wyoming. The area in question has no strip malls to speak of. No enough population.
The town my grandmother and father were born in has about 300 people today, same as in 1901. Cowley, is on one road to Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.
The entire area is rich in all kinds of antiquity. Fossils, Indian history, white man history. Custer Battlefield a little over an hour away.
I got brought up with Rocky Mountain conservatism, that taught wildlife conservation, through regulated hunting & fishing.
Use nature's bounty with care and reverence. Clean up after yourself. I am neither cowboy or Indian. But my grandfather was a cowboy, died wearing an Indian bracelet, for he had known and lived with them all his life.