Is there anywhere a person can go and dig for dinosaur bones free?
by admin on Monday, December 12th, 2011 | 2 Comments
I google searched “where can I dig for dinosaur bones” and got unlimited results from people who want to sell “fossil tours”.
1. I don’t want to go with a group of people.
2. I don’t want to pay for it.
3. If I find something spectacular, I want to keep it.
All these sites have a limit of what you can keep for a day – like $50 worth of fossils.
Ridiculous!
Isn’t there anywhere I can go out by myself, and just camp out, and spend the day looking for fossils without all that hassle?
I live in West Tennessee. There aren’t really any good dino-fossils here, because during the Cretacious era, this was an ocean.
You can go to land in the south west and there is also a lot of good hunting grounds in the north west. The bad lands. Some is private owned and some is state or federal owned. North Dakota is a treasure trove of Dino fossils
No. You would be trespassing on private property, or you would be vandalizing public property.
If you want to dig for fossils, you need to limit yourself to these tours. Don’t expect to find anything spectacular, even if you dig for a year. That just doesn’t happen except in the movies.
You might check with the anthropology departments at UM and UTM to see if they have digs that the public can volunteer on. You don’t get to keep the finds, but you will learn more about the importance of preserving these important locales.