"Oregon trying to ban metal detecting.....IMPORTANT"

"Oregon trying to ban metal detecting.....IMPORTANT"
 
   Oregon is trying to pass a bill that would ban metal detecting on private property, as well as artifact collecting without a permit. The only way to get the permit is if your have a masters in archeology. Please take a few seconds to sign the petetion, and possibly post this elsewhere that you think might help. I know a lot of you do not live in Oregon (myself included), but think of it this way........"Who's next?" Here is the post........
Say NO to State of Oregon Senate Bill 64

In summary... it would stop all Artifact Collecting, metal detecting and relic hunting in the Oregon State, not just on public land but on private land. It makes it illegal for even a landowner to pick up artifacts on his own property. Anything of cultural patrimony cannot be removed without a permit. To get the permit requires a Masters Degree in Archaeology or a related field. Even with the permit everything has to go either to the appropriate Indian tribe or to the State Anthropological Museum. There?s much more?. But suffice to say it would be the death knell for collecting in Oregon and a bitter blow to private museums that rely on these folks to give them artifacts. It would also put an extremely heavy load on the State Historic Preservation Office which is already shorthanded.

Say "NO" to State Of Oregon - Senate Bill 64

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Thanks,
Paul in WA

 


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Good Points, String.

Just one problem with the whole hysteria thing ... Wenatchee Paul failed to read the top line of his own URL...where it says this was something scheduled to be voted on in 2005.  It is now 2007, and Oregon only meets every 2 years legislatively.  This puppy died in committe, THANK GOODNESS.

One of the disadvantages of being part of the Oregon Trail is that EVERYTHING out here is historical.   There isn't a square foot of land that some Indian or some Pioneer hasn't squatted on, wee-wee'd on, spat on, or sat on, when you get right  down to it.  And what the humans might have missed, the oxen and horses took care of "covering."

85% of the Oregon land already belongs to a govt municipality out here, city, county, state or Federal.  AND the Sierra Club is trying to buy up the other 8 percent that is available, right smack dab through the middle of the state, and no one can stop them.  They spent over $200 million just last year to buy a chunk.

Disgusting!!!

Thanks again for your alert.  It's kinda hard to remember 2 years later what the stinkers tried to outlaw the previous two years, so I personally thank you for the reminder of the unfulfilled greenie agenda to forbid THing and MDing out here.

YellowChickie

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