A lot of times, we'll see skulls where the teeth are bashed out. The teeth are worth a lot of money. Farther down the tourist road, she points out a rusty stain in the gray stone of a butte. The stain is the size of a turkey platter, and it's surrounded by a shower of rock and fossil fragments. It looks as if someone just chiseled it off the rock.
Poachers are in too much of a rush to be thorough.
We lost quite a few things this summer. Soon, though, we will visit two very different fossil beds in the Badlands, both of which seem safe from poachers for the moment. One is the Big Pig Dig, and if these are pigs, then the big, bad wolf would want to be about 10 feet tall. We can't tell you where it is, but we can tell you that we won't have to crawl to see these creatures.