RAPID CITY, S.D. Any rock hounds or fossil hunters out there if you need help identifying your finds the School of Mines has you covered this weekend. Saturday the South
on there. and so we traversed this together and i had created for myself the additional burden of trying to be a journalist and separate my personal feelings from my job. two federal courts have sided with the government, saying sue should stay in the box, because there s no proof the dinosaur is being damaged there. in another federal court, they re still arguing over who actually owns the bones. the intensity of reaction while the court case was going on really surprised me. there were people that i thought were quite reasonable people, who basically said things about black hills that just were not true. there s a difference between the academic perspective of fossil collecting and the commercial perspective.
really surprised me. there were people that i thought were quite reasonable people, who basically said things about black hills that just were not true. there s a difference between the academic perspective of fossil collecting and the commercial perspective. there are some people in this profession that really, truly believe that it is, there s something morally wrong with selling a fossil. i was indoctrinated as an undergrad, that if you don t have a ph.d. you have no right to collect dinosaurs. i heard about the bhi and peter larson collecting fossils and i was told, these are pirates. and i visited pete larson and i visit the black hills institute, and they weren t pirates at all. they had techniques. they taught my crew. they were better than my crew. you have academias and they have these 5 doms and now here s