An Alberta man convicted of illegally excavating and removing fossilized dinosaur footprints in northern B.C. has also been fined
Bennward Dale Ingram, 39, pleaded guilty to an offence under the B.C. Land Act for excavating on provincially owned land at the Six Peaks Dinosaur Track Site near Hudson’s Hope in June 2020.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The illegal excavation work only came to an end when two groups of witnesses arrived at the scene and began observing the work after which Ingram and the others packed up their tools and fled.Article content Preliminary studies at the site determined the presence of more than 500 dinosaur footprints. The tracks represent diverse dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous epoch who walked on sandy grounds about 125 million years ago.
“Several additional First Nations cultural locations are found close to the and community members are now fearful that additional acts of vandalism may occur in these otherwise remote and culturally important areas.”
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