and say, well, i m glad people can t just go out into the forests or out on to the parks and take these fossils, or in this particular case, or steal stuff off of land, and somebody s going to do something about it. well, we re the somebody that does something about it. after the seizure of the sue specimen, we continued to look at this issue, not from a park service jurisdiction perspective, but more from the circumstances of business practices in terms of collecting on public lands. you really can t do anything in any kind of a business without money. what monetary transactions happened during the time that this enterprise had this fossil and then what did they do with that fossil. sell it? what happened to that money. and then how we can assemble the
i first got involved in the dinosaur case, as we call it, sometime late 1992, early 1993. and of course they re not going to like what we re doing. that s the nature of what we do. but hopefully in the broader spectrum, people can look at it and say, well, i m glad people can t just go out into the forests or out on to the parks and take these fossils, or in this particular case, or steal stuff off of land, and somebody s going to do something about it. well, we re the somebody that does something about it. after the seizure of the sue specimen, we continued to look at this issue, not from a park service jurisdiction perspective, but more from the circumstances of business practices in terms of collecting on public lands.
i first got involved in the dinosaur case, as we call it, some time late 1992, early 1993. and of course they re not going to like what we re doing. that s the nature of what we do. but hopefully in the broader spectrum, people can look at it and say, well, i m glad people can t just go out into the forests or out on to the parks and take these fossils, or in this particular case, or steal stuff off of land, and somebody s going to do something about it. well, we re the somebody that does something about it. after the seizure of the sue specimen, we continued to look at this issue, not from a park service jurisdiction perspective, but more from the circumstances of business practices in terms of collecting
sometime late 1992, early 1993. and of course they re not going to like what we re doing. that s the nature of what we do. but hopefully in the broader spectrum, people can look at it and say, well, i m glad people can t just go out into the forests or out on to the parks and take these fossils, or in this particular case, or steal stuff off of land, and somebody s going to do something about it. well, we re the somebody that does something about it. after the seizure of the sue specimen, we continued to look at this issue, not from a park service jurisdiction perspective, but more from the circumstances of business practices in terms of collecting on public lands. you really can t do anything