tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425550699774238271.post1434388378079644428..comments2024-02-25T02:41:43.023-07:00Comments on North of Andorra: Leave Only Tracks, Take Only PicturesNorth of Andorrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06199381759209397228noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425550699774238271.post-49987351040898084072009-02-13T13:47:00.000-07:002009-02-13T13:47:00.000-07:00I didn't know rangers smashed skulls! I always wo...I didn't know rangers smashed skulls! I always wondered why it was so rare to see antlers. Although I have seen them a few times in the Park, I've seen them much more often outside it. <BR/><BR/>I have to tell you a story about a friend of mine who was a naturalist for a guest ranch right outside the park. She took a group of guests hiking in the Northwest part of the park to a ridge where there are a number of standing petrified trees. She warned the guests that taking specimens was absolutely not allowed. When they got back to the ranch, a couple who had been on the trip came up to her and the husband (forced by his wife to confess) admitted that when he had wandered away from the group to relieve himself, he had sneaked around to where there were some petrified trees and scooped up a bunch of petrified wood pieces and hid them in his pack. He gave them back to my friend and apologized for his greediness. His day pack was full of about 25 pounds of rock! He had lugged them all the way back from the ridge to the bus on his back. My friend took the rocks back to the park the next day, hiked back to the ridge and scattered them around one of the trees. No wonder the one petrified tree that has signs pointing to it from the road is fenced off. Acquisitiveness is probably hard wired into us.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14708548849658666372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425550699774238271.post-24588723054430680672009-02-13T09:40:00.000-07:002009-02-13T09:40:00.000-07:00Seeing the bison skull photograph sends me right i...Seeing the bison skull photograph sends me right into "Georgia O'Keefe Land"! It's probably her fault that people want bison skulls! HA!<BR/><BR/>As always, you have introduced to new facts of naturalism of which I was unaware. Thanks again.<BR/><BR/>I hope all is well with y'all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com