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Unfortunately this is not a trip report, but wanted to let people know who were thinking of making a Montana trip this year that Baisch in glendive shut down for the summer. Shana emailed me the news today. They are trying to keep family safe, and I agree that I think it's best for them. I already prepaid a nonrefundable week out there at a hotel before all the covid went down. I still plan on heading out there, but will have to adjust our fossil plans a bit. I went there 3 years ago with just my daughter, but will have the whole crew in tow this time. The plan was to let everyone collect dinosaur bones 3 days, then invertebrate hunt or random stuff the other days. I plan on doing the atv park one day, and a roadcut north of Malta another, but other than that not sure what else to do. Does anyone know of any other pay to dig sites that are not easily found on the web where you can keep material around there? I know we can observe at the park, and several museums allow kids to do mini digs but not keep things, but my kids want to take home their work. I'm guessing we will just end up settling on invertebrates again. I have the rockhounding Montana book, but if anyone has any great recommendations, I'm always open to suggestions.
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I was interested in driving up to Pottsville, PA to look for some fern fossils around St Clair. From reading: and then: It seems that the sites around St Clair are now owned by Reading Anthracite a coal company and that digging or collecting of the ground is strictly prohibited. I also found this: http://readinganthracite.com/access-permits/ That implies a $125 permit for going onto their property to do things such as ATV and bike. Nowhere on there do I see anything that mentions digging or collecting fossils but from the previous post I gather that such activities are prohibited. My question is two-fold: 1. There has to be somewhere close to St Clair that is full of fern fossils. Would someone mind sharing the location? I would be willing to mail this individual some of the finds and some of these finds would be going to a university. None of them would be for sale. 2. Would anyone be willing to make the trip with me? I could even pick you up and cover gas as I do have a Prius. My current location is Washington DC. Thanks everyone. I know there has to be some ferns still out there.