Re: Re: summer prospecting ?

[Aaron Johnson <n9145756@rowlf.cc.wwu.edu>]

        I really appreciate the input and it is pretty much of what 
I had expected. For starters I should have included where I found them 
and what I did, whooops. I found them on my Grandfathers property THE 
DEARORN RANCH.  Some markers are Elephant mtn, Cobern mtn, and Dearborn rvr. 
I found the bones set @1" into the ground getting a tan in the hot summer 
heat on an anticline.  I did not have to pry them loose, they were loose
enogh to pick up.  In the area there are fragments of fossils within a 30' 
radius.  Prior  to picking them up I scetched thier orentation and several 
other fragments that were near by.  After I found the fossils I took them back
to my aunts house to clean them up a bit.  I used a brissle and an air brush to 
remove the lichens and residual material. After I cleaned them up a bit I put 
them in a padded box to keep them dry and out of the light.  I use the 
same procedure when I prep arrow heads and arifacts that we collect from a 
buffalo jump that we work sometimes in the summer.
        As for me going out there and digging away, thats not what I had 
in mind.  I will send (donate) my material to the Museum of the Rockies 
and go from there.  
                        Thank you VERY much!
                                        Aaron L. Johnson

* I not much for guns nor sharp knives.