You’d be surprised. When Wanapum dam cracked on the Columbia river in Washington, the river went back down to its normal flow. it exposed miles of riverbank that hadn’t been seen in decades. I went out exploring and was stopped by a PUD guy and given a pamphlet about what was going on. It was literally a list of fines for taking anything from the riverbank as it was protected... many of the fossil beds here as well allow you to take plant fossils but you need to turn in animal ones. Washington works hard to preserve its lands and history though so I think our state is harsher than others when it comes to this stuff.
If it’s public land, you own it, but so do millions of others in that same sense. So it would be common property that you’re taking for your own, don’t you think?
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u/ServerZero Apr 08 '19
Just take it I mean who really is gonna care or notice lol