CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter was submitted in response to a column about collecting trilobites in Craigleith.
I just read Kevin Lamb's story about fossils in Craigleith.
I write, because it i s illegal to gather, or take away, fossils at Craigleith Provincial Park.
They ask park visitors not to gather, or take away, fossils. They have rules about tree-cutting and other environment-protecting things.
Yes, the fossils are there. But it takes breaking shale to find them.
They don't want people breaking shale at the Craigleith Provincial Park beach area.
Kevin's story could encourage people to visit the park and take fossils.
I get that Kevin indicated that people are not allowed to take specimens away from the park property and (almost gleefully) he writes about taking them from the shoreline area outside the park.
I think people should leave the fossils alone.
George Czerny-Holownia
Collingwood, Ont.
