From: "Rob Gay" <rob_redwing@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rob_redwing@hotmail.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu, vrtpaleo@usc.edu
Subject: AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:58:09
I picked this bit up from a messageboard that I frequent...
This is from the Ogden 'Standard-Examiner,':
Park officials: Scout ripped out dinosaur tracks
VERNAL -- A set of 200 million-year-old dinosaur tracks at Red Fleet State
Park were ripped out by a Boy Scout and tossed into a nearby reservoir,
park
officials said.
"They are priceless," said Jim Kirkland, state paleontologist. "This is an
asset of the state that has been lost forever."
Rangers say there are only a handful of Dilophosaurus "track ways" of that
age in the entire world. Track ways are sets of three or more tracks made
by
the same dinosaur.
The three track ways at the park -- one of which was severely damaged by
the
Scout on July 19 -- were not discovered until 1987, ranger Mike Murray
said.
Kirkland said the 15-year-old Scout from West Valley City could face
charges
under the state Cultural Sites Protection Act, which makes it a
third-degree
felony for anyone to damage antiquities. Two other Scouts who helped throw
rock slabs into the water could be charged with criminal mischief, Murray
said.<
Is this what we're teaching our youth!? As the title of the message says,
"Aaarrrrgghhhh!!!!"
Pissed,
Rob
Student of Geology
Northern Arizona University
Biological Science Tech
Manti-La Sal National Forest
AIM: TarryAGoat
http://www.geocities.com/elvisimposter/dinopics.html
http://www.cafepress.com/RobsDinos
"A _Coelophysis_ with feathers?"
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