NevTrac
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Today I decided to hunt a spot that I hit a few months ago. The site is a National Forest Servece office that just so happens to have an older house on the property. Before I hunted it the first time I got verbal permission from a Forest Service agent.
So there I was swingin away when a man approached me and identified himself as a NFS archeoligist. He told me that I was on federal property, (I already knew this) and that detecting was prohibited on ALL federal land.
Now I am aware of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and I'm not allowed to remove artifacts over 100 years old, but why did he tell me detecting was illegal on federal land? He also told me they were really going to be cracking down because of the recent TV shows about treasure hunting. I agreed with him that those shows were not only bad for archeoligists, but the average hobbyist as well.
If I'm not allowed to hunt on federal land (this includes BLM) I just lost about 90% of my hunting grounds. Park hunting sucks so call me an outlaw!
Keith
So there I was swingin away when a man approached me and identified himself as a NFS archeoligist. He told me that I was on federal property, (I already knew this) and that detecting was prohibited on ALL federal land.
Now I am aware of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and I'm not allowed to remove artifacts over 100 years old, but why did he tell me detecting was illegal on federal land? He also told me they were really going to be cracking down because of the recent TV shows about treasure hunting. I agreed with him that those shows were not only bad for archeoligists, but the average hobbyist as well.
If I'm not allowed to hunt on federal land (this includes BLM) I just lost about 90% of my hunting grounds. Park hunting sucks so call me an outlaw!
Keith