I got a warning

[tamrock]

Well yesterday it was nice close to 78° day, so I thought I'd head out to my little site and have a look around. I searched the area for a while and look up and saw this beanpole of a fella walking towards me. It looked like he was packing a sidearm, but it was a radio on one side and mace spray on the other and he had a Texas ranger looking hat on. Well he'd been watching me and he was a Parks & Open Space Ranger. He told me the place I'm at is off limits and lease to the oil and gas companies. He also said it's a place where the borrowing owls are nesting. I said I knew that and showed him a pictures of some I've seen around the area. He thought that was pretty cool. He was pretty nice and said he wished he could tell me it's okay to enjoy the peace and solitude of these low bluffs, but rules are rules. I guess my research of the ancients of the past that once lived around here is over now. Told him it's a bummer, but I'll no longer be seen around here again and being the little owls are rare in the county it's best I guess to not upset them. Now I'll have to go farther away to hunt for artifacts.

 

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[sprailroad]

Well.......at least he was nice about it, there ARE others that act like their making a major bust. You know, there are times that I feel that every time I leave the front door to go someplace, I just MUST be trespassing somewhere somehow in someway.

 

[Chiltepin]

In Arizona we can't pick up any relics. I know of a area you can find
Pottery shards every 5 feet, we can look but can't touch or remove
anything.

Great owl picture, funny we have 3 great horned owls out this morning
hunting, they will hunt here for a week then move on. They
won't be back for at least 3 months.

Wait till you step out and are asked if that "Air" your breathing is legal.

 

[tamrock]

Well after being around over 60 years now I have seen the list of "YOU CAN'T DO THAT" have more and more added on. Stinks, but the good old days can't stay with us.

 

[villagenut]

Sorry to hear of you losing your space...maybe a similar place will find you soon. Vn

 

[tamrock]

In Arizona we can't pick up any relics. I know of a area you can find
Pottery shards every 5 feet, we can look but can't touch or remove
anything.

Great owl picture, funny we have 3 great horned owls out this morning
hunting, they will hunt here for a week then move on. They
won't be back for at least 3 months.

Wait till you step out and are asked if that "Air" your breathing is legal.

Yeah, the Great Horn Owls have been around my area now and will do the same and head off. I guess there's been two cases around here where they went after little dogs, so I sit out with my little 8 pound dog in the mornings now. I didn't tell that Ranger I was finding artifacts in the area.

 

[Rawhide]

Always sad when my walks are disturbed too. Glad we got the Rangers to help, but scratch my head when lizards and things are protected. The air and poisons we put down and gmo's probably killing em out.

 

[tamrock]

Always sad when my walks are disturbed too. Glad we got the Rangers to help, but scratch my head when lizards and things are protected. The air and poisons we put down and gmo's probably killing em out.

I think the lizards I once saw around here have all died out from lack of cover from them moving prairie dogs in field where there were no prairie dogs before. The lizards lost their cover and the crows and hawks ate em all up. They had a big protest once after the city gasses a bunch of prairie dogs to build a new police station. After that they had to build a new water treatment plant and there were prairie dogs in the way, so they moved them behind my house. I always let my dog run free out there, but just after they put the prairie dogs there I was out letting my dog run and a cop drove out to see me. He told me this car at the edge of the field had tree hug'rs in it and they are watching to make sure no one is letting their dogs run around the newly planted varmints. Suckers ratted on me. The cop, I could tell was sympathetic with me and was also nice about it and even said he was sorry he had to tell me to leash my dog. There are no more lizards as this once field of beautiful native high plains grasses is all gone now and replaced by noxious weeds and prairie dog dung. It's completely ugly. Gone also are the fox also who would hunt the field mice that were run off by packs of coyote now. What makes this all ironic now is the prairie dog can't grow larger do to the size of the field and about every two years a guy with a big vacuum truck comes out to suck some of the critters out of their hole. They end up as food for the Birds of Prey rehabilitation center and the Denver Zoo as Hyena treats. I need to maybe get one of those prairie dogs suckers and go into business. As they develop more around here the need to vacate prairie dogs is in big demand now.

 

[arrow86]

After reading all this all I can is say wow! Makes me appreciate what I have.

 

[villagenut]

During the approach of Hurricane Irma, there were folks out at the beach filling a few pillow cases with sand for sandbagging their front door and the local news give them a hard time because they said it was illegal due to the possibility of a baby sea turtle falling in the shallow holes......I'm sure there are laws that serve the good purpose but sometimes there is no balance.

 

[sandchip]

What a sad state of affairs. Sorry to hear all this, Tam.

 

[Mark Todd]

Always sad when my walks are disturbed too. Glad we got the Rangers to help, but scratch my head when lizards and things are protected. The air and poisons we put down and gmo's probably killing em out.

That GMO's and poisons we put down caught my attention, if we were still spraying DDT in Africa it would be saving hundreds of millions of lives.
And wheat and barley GMO's have managed to present seeds that will grow well in over and under precipitated locations, saving millions of lives as well!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

3cylbill, please keep political comments out of all forums but our politics forum.

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[coosakid]

Sucks losing a spot, especially when you're not doing nothing but looking for a rock

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[diggingthe1]

I was up that way this past weekend. I couldn't believe the growth. My friend has a older house around Quincy and 82nd. I grew up in Golden. I can't believe all the houses!! We passed by the guy who was killed by the rattlesnake! So sad to happen to such an inspirational person. I wonder if you could contact the companies to get permission? I hope you find some good places to hunt, maybe it will lead to happier hunting grounds!!! Colorado is sure becoming popular.

 

[Old Pueblo]

In Arizona we can't pick up any relics. I know of a area you can find
Pottery shards every 5 feet, we can look but can't touch or remove
anything.

Great owl picture, funny we have 3 great horned owls out this morning
hunting, they will hunt here for a week then move on. They
won't be back for at least 3 months.

Wait till you step out and are asked if that "Air" your breathing is legal.

You can on private property with permission. Talk to the ranchers, they're the big land owners out here and most of them dont care about the stuff.

 

[RGINN]

Anyway before I was interrupted, they have a parks and open space ranger job? Man you should look into that. You could do that. Maybe something you could shuffle along in in your golden years. haha. Best job I had was with Oklahoma state parks. Sometimes yeah, you will spoil people's 'fun', but you can make a difference.

 

[tamrock]

I was up that way this past weekend. I couldn't believe the growth. My friend has a older house around Quincy and 82nd. I grew up in Golden. I can't believe all the houses!! We passed by the guy who was killed by the rattlesnake! So sad to happen to such an inspirational person. I wonder if you could contact the companies to get permission? I hope you find some good places to hunt, maybe it will lead to happier hunting grounds!!! Colorado is sure becoming popular.

I was transferred with a company from Sacramento back in 1988. At that time Sacramento was one of the fastest growing city's in the nation. It's really expanding around and the freeways are worse than ever. I would move, but I'm thinking my better half would make me pay for that if I did. I took a job in Grand Junction maybe 12 years ago, but after staying only 2 months I saw signs in my wife that it may not go to easy on her with a new environment, so I had to tell the new company sorry for all you've done, but I'm not staying. Overall that was the best decision, as the job was heavy in the coal industry which is really dropped off.

 

[tamrock]

Anyway before I was interrupted, they have a parks and open space ranger job? Man you should look into that. You could do that. Maybe something you could shuffle along in in your golden years. haha. Best job I had was with Oklahoma state parks. Sometimes yeah, you will spoil people's 'fun', but you can make a difference.

My mother said to me when I was young I should look into that kind of work as she thought it would best suit me throughout my life. I just wanted to make money anyway I could and working in a mine seem to be the way when I was young and dumb.

 

[tamrock]

You can on private property with permission. Talk to the ranchers, they're the big land owners out here and most of them dont care about the stuff.

they don't exist around here anymore, they've all sold out for the big money to the county or developers. The only AG country is owned by the parks and open spaces and least back to the farmers who once owned the land, posted with signs saying off limits. It's funny just this last weekend in one of the posted sites I could see a squatter had pitched a tent out in a field, kindof hidden under a large cottonwood tree in the distance.