Loss of Historic Sites

[Gretchen]

I am lucky and live in a small community surrounded by National Forest. When developers for a large church or camp for outsiders buy and try to build the environmentalists usually can stop the process. A wonderful thing traffic impact on our mountain roads and endangered species. A few years ago they stopped the development north of us in the creek and mountains we look at. The creek or river after rain is one of the wild trout streams in California. Our local land trust has been picking up private land and selling or giving it to the forestry. Wet lands, endangered plants and animals are thus preserved. I can metal detect on forestry land for coins, but can't pick up anything fifty years or older - even a square nail. I have only found recent coins. Secret - keep a low profile. Gretchen.

 

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[SC_Fisher]

Local politician's know how to put the "H" in hypocrisy.

All of the stink the archeoligists raise about metal detectorists, and bonehead politicians swayed into passing legislation against MD'ers.

Then here comes a land developer or WalMart with the big piles of cash to waive under their noses - SOLD !! To heck with the archeological importance...how many acres would you like to destroy ! It would be impossible for developers to "have politicians in their back pocket" without said politicians happily allowing it.

They don't give a crap about the historical aspects...the problem is that MD'ers haven't bought them off.

Greed and graft at its finest.


Regards,

SC_Fisher

 

[Mluke]

Try Gettysburg---this is a battlefieldwhere they can fine and arrest you if they see you stopped and staring at the ground---dont know for sure who came up with that law--i would love to be able to takethe MD out onto those fields, but i guess since there is no profit in it for the govt...I am out of luck

They can arrest you for MD'ing and digging on any state or federally owned land.

 

[kuger]

Trust me its not just battlefields that are being lost it is history across the board nation wide.One of the major water districts(the actual customers are over a hundred miles away)that owns the water and watersheds in my area will cite you for even walking on the hundreds of acres they own.There are many endangered plants and animals and too many historical sites to list yet they at the drawing board as we speak to flood the whole area,now what sense is there in that?

 

[JohnnieWalker]

So a trowel and a metal detector is forbidden

But a bulldozer and a large check is fine.

 

[kuger]

So a trowel and a metal detector is forbidden

But a bulldozer and a large check is fine.

Yea,pretty much

 

[BuckleBoy]

Yes, it's pretty sad when you realize that a growing portion of your detecting is done through checking the dump truck dirt from an old site, befriending construction workers, or detecting on property right up against the back fence of some new huge home in Pretentious Acres gated communities.

I once detected while looking though the windows of a newly built office a stone's throw across the road from the cornfield I was hunting (a cornfield that is now covered in concerete). Lots of old relics, gun parts, seated coins, good buttons, and large cents recovered while I watched folks talk on their office phones from their cubicles. And it was surreal.


-Buckles