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Visitor Comments
Tracie Bennitt
February 5, 2009, 4:06pm (report abuse)AAPS cannot support Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009“Paleontological Preservation Resource Act.” This bill requires that scientific data (localities) be kept secret, which is totally against scientific principles.This bill makes mislabeling fossils a felony. EVERY museum has mislabeled specimens.Are we going to put every curator in the country in jail?Are we going to have paleo Nazis out there putting students in jail who make a field error in location or identification? This bill penalizes scientific curiosity.Are we going to put every teacher and scout group in jail for picking up fossils from public lands?There are no provisions for sale of fossils from commercial quarries.Currently you can grind them up for gravel, but not collect them to sell.People who collect fossils do so to preserve them.They should be encouraged, not discouraged and penalized.The enemy is the forces of weathering that destroy millions of specimens each year.Tracie Bennitt, President www.aaps.net
T Edger
February 9, 2009, 5:17pm (report abuse)This is a response to Tracie Bennitt of AAPS.
Let me see. Every scientific paper on new paleontological finds gives the exact location of where the fossils have been found. I don’t think so.
False labeling of fossils excavated or removed from Federal land does get you into trouble under the bill if you KNOWINGLY violated this provision. This is clearly intended to prevent a person from deliberately mislabeling a find, not punishing a person for inadvertently doing so.
The bill doesn’t “penalize scientific curiousity.” That’s a red herring that the commercial fossil collectors represented by the AAPS want you to be misled by. Rather, their opposition stems from the fact that this legislation continues the legal prohibition against commercial collecting on federal land and puts teeth into penalties for violating that prohibition.
KJH
March 16, 2009, 11:34am (report abuse)What did they find while USIP on the mall was being built? War dead? Congress funded the office on the mall between war memorials and now funds USIP like an agency. They made a mistake giving away the mall land for an office.
tuckf
March 17, 2009, 1:43am (report abuse)I work under a AFLCIO contract and just lost .60 per hour due to cost of living adjustments. They goverment officials must think Washington is in a diffrent country than Missouri?