GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—The Bureau of Land Management is investigating two University of Colorado professors accused of taking fossils from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah without a permit.
The Denver Post reports ( ) the professors and some students broke off slabs of rock containing fossils in a remote section of the monument in early October when a tour guide found them. The guide with Escape Goat Tours and Shuttle Service went to authorities, and the professors later agreed to return the fossils.
Monument spokesman Larry Crutchfield says he isn’t releasing the names of the professors because the matter is under investigation. No citations have been issued yet.
Crutchfield says the CU group didn’t have a permit to take specimens from the monument.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
