So I am out in the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma,doin oil bidness and thought I would visit some old stompin grounds --- the drought is going on twenty years now. Lakes are dry or at historic lows. Saturday and Sunday, I did some canyon hiking - Lake Meredith where I used to fish is FIFTY feet lower than it was when I was in college in the early seventies - so low in fact that the lake is only a third of what it was then - its crazy walking shorelines and realizing that this was fifty feet of water over my head a scant twenty years ago, and this is typical of all the lakes west of I-35 line thru Oklahoma and Texas. God forbid we have another summer like our last one, no joke folks when you see this out here it makes you want to cry - its a wonder more farms and ranches haven't gone belly up.

Looked for Indian artifacts along the red river hills off the caprock Mc Clellan canyon yesterday, found a few fossilized bones sticking out of one clay hill and a few Alibates Flint scrapers but no points, thats my new hobby for a while as I walk along this dusty dry plain

BE while before I see "home" again - ya'll post up so I will see that there is water with fish in it

pray for rain, and rain, and rain. amen.

Buddy of mine found an almost perfect Bulverde Point in Webb County this weekend. It was made from Alibates Flint and had serated edges produced with compression flaking. Real pretty piece.

Good luck with your arrowhead hunting. Keep praying for rain.

Where can one find the law on artifacts? Tawakoni is low and there are some things to be found, but there are signs at all the launches saying artifacts cannot be removed. Seems kinda wasteful for them to be buried underwater for no one to ever see?

Anybody?

Find any tungsten?

Here ya go, Matt.

http://www.thc.state.tx.us/archeology/aapdfs/Artifact_Collecting.pdf

http://www.arrowheadology.com/bill-seeks-to-decriminalize-surface-hunting-on-public-land/

Thanks. So in reading this, it seems any arrowhead found on public property cant be taken. Dry lake beds and rivers, parks, just about anywhere is illegal except on private property?

I used to know folks who found arrowheads all the time on Tawakoni and Elmo Lake. Kept 'em too. Had real nice collections. I guess it wasn't any big deal until this drought started uncovering so many new sites.