On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:24:58 -0600, rw wrote:

bruiser wrote:
rw wrote:

BTW, those elk sheds are valuable. Some people around here spend a great
deal of time looking for them. Is it illegal to remove them from
Yellowstone? I suspect it is.



We have that preserve here with fishing and the great Elk herd, the
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Their biggest poaching problem
involves shedded antlers according to one of the employees. bruce h

I read that some oil company want to drill there.

BigB:

That's a tough one. And yet for preservation sake, if ya had to choose
between 30-years of oilwells ( with a 5% restoration tax -- oil IS a minor
pollutant ) and 30 centuries of tract-(2nd)-homes ....

.... and yes I DID grow up in Scranton Pa. where the coal companies raped
the land and streams and then bugged out. They never paid to
restore either.

nss
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