Rimshot 181 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 But read this link, and to me, just be sure where you find fossil thingie's at and NO tusk please!http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/20308591/article-Alaska-guide-fined-for-smuggled-mammoth-tusk-?instance=home_news_window_left_bulletsRim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
homefire 2,581 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 What Authority do they have over Private Lands? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimshot 181 Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Home,None that I know of but these tusk were found on government lands...just saying be careful in what you find and keep.Rim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oredigger62 17 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 I have a piece of fossilized tusk from here in AZ but can't remember anything else about it.... I can't seem to remember where anything was collected from. dang it !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimshot 181 Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Hey Ore,As long as you didn't have a guide to take you where the fossil tusk was I wouldn't worry about it...lol!RimPS-Be sure and read the comment's below the article...seem's like many peep's are sick at the way gov handles things. Sad thing is where ever those tusk end up at, the people that found them will probably get no credit for finding them. sad, sad, sad...And who paid for the court cost on behalf of the government? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 4,614 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Ironically the defendant is paying for defense and his taxes paying prosecution when in court with government Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimshot 181 Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Bill,Do you think that was a mis-print when they said "private property" talking about all the different types of land the laws applied too? I could be wrong, but I don't think that's true.Rim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Au Seeker 3,153 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Bill,Do you think that was a mis-print when they said "private property" talking about all the different types of land the laws applied too? I could be wrong, but I don't think that's true.Rim I couldn't find any rules or regulations for private property at this site, so they may have misspoken about the private property.http://www.alaskacenters.gov/fossil-collecting.cfm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
homefire 2,581 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 I couldn't find any rules or regulations for private property at this site, so they may have misspoken about the private property.http://www.alaskacen...-collecting.cfmThe day there is Rules on Private Property we are No Longer America The Great but America the Conquered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
adam 3,127 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 They fine her 30 grand then take away her source of income ??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
homefire 2,581 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 LOL That's like you fall behind on child support so they take your drivers Licence so you can't get to work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimshot 181 Posted October 5, 2012 Author Share Posted October 5, 2012 OK, let's see how this flies...but i'm with the kid...put it back...haha!http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/35714/texas+angler+goes+fishing+ends+up+discovering+possible+mastodon+tooth/Rim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
El Dorado 964 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 This comment is good:Invictus |September 29, 2012 Factually, it was the BLM that got something for nothing. The fossil hunters did all the work and paid the price. The BLM simply took the goods and their money. I can't imagine any good citizen thinking this is a righteous thing. Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Alaska guide fined for smuggled mammoth tusk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Goldfinger 43 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 So is this one...doubledumb|September 29, 2012Goverment makes $130,000 profit from extinct Mammoth tusk that would have just rotted away in a few years since it had come out of the permafrost. The two who were convicted should have gotten a reward for finding the tusk before it rotted away. But we need some excuse for USFW, "rangers", BLM agents, troopers, etc. to justify their job titles worth. Maybe the UAF would have found it in the next 10,000 years...as ivory dust.Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Alaska guide fined for smuggled mammoth tusk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimshot 181 Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Not to mention the guide was an X National Park Service ranger which was mentioned in the original report. You would think she would have known the laws. But maybe not.Rim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Au Seeker 3,153 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Not to mention the guide was an X National Park Service ranger which was mentioned in the original report. You would think she would have known the laws. But maybe not.RimI'm sure she did, but once a Forest Ranger always a Forest Ranger I guess, at least in their own minds and I sometimes think that Forest Rangers don't think that any laws apply to them, only us little people!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimshot 181 Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 AU,The more I think about this, the more fishey it sounds to me. Recorded conversation for one. Did the forest service request her to get the recording of the guy acknowledging he had the tusk in whatever state he lived in. If so, how did the forest service know he even had the tusk? Who squealed? Seems too weird to me.Rim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Au Seeker 3,153 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 AU,The more I think about this, the more fishey it sounds to me. Recorded conversation for one. Did the forest service request her to get the recording of the guy acknowledging he had the tusk in whatever state he lived in. If so, how did the forest service know he even had the tusk? Who squealed? Seems too weird to me.RimI guess she told them who he was since she did post a photo of him holding the tusk on her website, and that picture that she put up on her website is what got her busted, I guess "stupid is stupid does" was her downfall!!!Quote:" The Bureau of Land Management began investigating Jettmar in 2008 because evidence of illegal fossil collecting was found on her website in the form of a picture of a frequent customer holding a mammoth tusk worth $4,000 taken from the Kokolik River in Northwest Alaska in 2007, according to the signed plea agreement." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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