Lyle, I am semi-retired and could actually live without doing consulting.
And, I did not work for the State of California, so I neither have an axe to
grind not anything to gain from raising the alarm. As to the privy pirates, most
of them simply trespass on construction sites that the cities have neglected to
require archaeology monitors. Last January, I monitored telephone line
trenching and a stoplight construction crew was busy looting privies they
encountered while undergrounding their power lines... and no one stopped them. The
environmental laws are different from NEPA or Section 106 in that they require
agencies and private land owners to conduct local archaeology (laws that I
enforced in my former career). No, my concern is that with no one minding the store,
privy diggers will accelerate their rate of destruction.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.