>>2767794> somehow I doubt the vast majority of you treasure hunters are informedYou think this because you have fully displayed in this thread that you are uneducated, and like many stupid people you think everybody else in the world is as stupid as you are.
> telling someone asking about digging for artifacts that the rules cant be enforcedNever said that
> I was pretty clear that I also find taking these things from the wilderness distasteful even if there are no (unenforced) laws about it in any case.Your opening point was that the thread was illegal, because youre one of the morons who thought collecting fossils is flat out illegal. But youre not the man you were 5 minutes ago anymore I guess?
> most university anthropology labs in the US have a backlog of specimens that would take several centuries of continuous graduate work to processAnd yet they still go out and collect tons of shit every season. Know why? Because they are letting the backlog of prep work grow as it can always be done in the future. But fossils that are exposed to the elements are being damaged by the sun and every rain. And they are non renewable resources. This is why any retard who says “leave it for the next hiker to see” doesnt have a fucking clue what they are talking about. When I make a decision not to collect something like in picrel, I know that it will be gone forever from the earth next time I am there, due to the freeze dry cycle.
Do you know where the vast majority of artifact collections in north america come from? Farmers fields. Do you know what would happen to these artifacts if they werent collected? Quickly destroyed by the next plow.
For the record I agree that OP should put something about fossil collecting ethics and legalities in the general. Not because I think it will teach anybody who goes out and looks for fossils anything they dont already know, but because it might dissuade morons like you from spewing your ignorance on the matter.
