Posted on 10/28/2012 12:12:59 PM PDT by george76
Two University of Colorado professors are being investigated by the Bureau of Land Management for taking fossils from a remote area of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah without a permit.
The professors, who have not been named, and a group of students with them were breaking off slabs of rock containing fossils in a remote section of the monument in early October when a tour guide discovered them and informed them that what they were doing was illegal.
The guide with Escape Goat Tours and Shuttle Service reported that the professors told him to mind his own business as they continued to load fossils into a truck. The guide took a photo of their license plate and reported them to authorities.
A BLM ranger identified the driver of the vehicle through the license plate and contacted the driver where the group was staying overnight in Grand Junction. The professors agreed to return the fossils.
"It wasn't like they were on the run and trying to evade anyone
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Faculty folk fingered for feloniously filching fossils.
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IOW, it's all about the money. That said, the profs should lose their tenure and their teacher's licenses.
arrogant liberal professors I bet
were registered Democrats and could do anything that pleased them...so there!
And the monument is owned by the UN? Or Arabs? Or is that the same thing these days?
Professor: "Illegal fossil gathering."
Cellmate: "Wot?! Hey Psycho Slasher, looky here . . . . "
Since they’re good liberals, nothing will happen to them, unlike the residents of southern Utah, who get prosecuted for collecting fossils and Indian arrowheads literally in their own backyards.
Bonus: a lot of them get a visit from the local SWAT team, who is happy to throw grenades through their windows, pull the front door off with a large armored truck, and put a foot on their neck face-down at gunpoint.
CU has an impressive museum with a large fossil collection. It is well worth visiting, even though most people don’t even know about it.
Damn - now the entire fossil collection is under scrutiny for whether they were collected with permits or not. Likely they’ll have to go re-bury them! Sucks to be them ;-)
All bones on Federal land belong to The Man. Utah is full of bones, but, no touchy.
Not only that, but a lot of the most valuable fossils, once exposed to the weather, start deteriorating.
The federal government would rather have them destroyed than collected.
And now we know how they got it...
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Good memory and keep it coming. We cannot let Billary back into the WH, so we’ll need all the reminding we can get.
Professor: “...and disturbing the peace”
Yep. The same erosional forces which expose them will destroy them.
Sadly, geologists of the future won't happen because they found a neat rock or a fossil on vacation and were inspired to learn more about it.
I thank God I grew up in the America I did--it was the fossils and 'neat' rocks I found as a child (on private land) which inspired me to take up what has been a rewarding profession.
IIRC, there is another low-sulfur lignite deposit in the world—in Kosovo. Yep, the dog was being wagged there about the same time as the ESNM was created.
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