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Show Applications for Antiquity Law clarified by Forest Servce an entire village or town." Hamre noted, 'This is in conformance with Section 432 of the Antiquities Act pertaining pertain-ing to the issuance of permits. per-mits. Such permits are Issued only to qualified institutions certified by the Smithsonian Institute." Applications for a permit may be obtained from any Forest Supervisor's or District Dis-trict Ranger's Office in Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming. This requirement is a response re-sponse by the U.S. Forest Service Ser-vice to protect the numerous Indian ruins, archeological sites, historic and prehistoric monuments and structures, and objects of scientific interest. inter-est. Many of these are being damaged or destroyed by relic collectors. "The .heritage of Man in our Forest-which extends ex-tends back more than 10,000 years is as much a part of the natural environment as I ealthy animals, birds, water, nd trees," said Hamre. Regional Forester Vern Hamre announced that the U. S. Forest Service, in an Emergency Emer-gency Directive, has issued instructions in-structions that an Antiquity Permit is required for collecting collect-ing all artifacts, including those on the surface of the ground, within the National Forests. The new regulation reads: "It is unlawful to remove re-move any object or artifact from National Forest land without permission, whether or not surface disturbance is involved." The term "artifact" is defined: de-fined: 'Tn the broadest sense, any product or by-product of human hu-man activity is an artifact. This would include a range from such familiar items as an arrowpoint, to the less familiar fam-iliar soil matrix of an Indian village. . .Thus, depending upon up-on the level of consideration an artifact may reference f single item, such as a bead, o- I , |