[huck von finn]

They finally compromised on that, from what I'm reading here:

http://www.blnz.com/news/2009/03/16/Senate_moves_forward_wilderness_bill_3011.html

"A sixth provision, softening a provision to impose criminal penalties for collecting some fossilized rocks on federal land, was included in the final bill."

So Coburn must have been successful in that respect.

[editor-surveyor]

The “Paleontological Resources Protection Act” doesn’t protect any resources, its to protect their prescious “theory of evolution” that crumbles a bit more each time one of those fossils sees the light of day.