--- Ned Heite <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Are we going to have archaeology > contracts written > and supervised by park rangers who are nothing but > glorified traffic > cops,>> Ned - I realize you said this in 'jest' - but as one of those "glorified traffic cops" and also the CRM for several large operating projects - I am more than slightly offended. I bet you have never run up on a meth lab in the middle of the night four miles from the road and your vehicle... Bet you have never had to take guff off of someone who is doing a simple little bit of 'arryhead' collecting, someone who is likely to be carrying a gun, and is really pis...d about the citation you are going to write him that is going to cost him a couple hundred dollars for a $.50 point he could have bought in a flea market. Why - if you weren't so far away - I'd have to hose you down with my pepper spray (now - I'm the one kidding!!). Stephen P. Austin