Yep the forest service would much rather leave them in the ground. Where they are no use to anybody.
Poaching fossils? Using very hard water?
They (the fossils) and all their brethren have been there for at least 60 million years, I hardly think that some clown with a shovel is going to make any kind of dent in the supply of fossils in the near or distant future.
If Ward Churchill was out there digging them up would they be upset?