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The article offers news briefs related to relic hunting in the U.S. in 2015 including the attempt to alter the wording in the Clean Water Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act charged to a University of Missouri archaeology professor, and a Civil War monument in New York village.

The author discusses the rules and etiquette for digging historical artifacts. He relates an incident of digging relics on a national battlefield park wherein the perpetrator has pled guilty and was required to pay a $550 fine along with any requested park restitution. He says that someone has no permission to tell anyone when someone takes him to a site on private property.

The article presents comments on an issue about an archeologist violating the Archeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) by removing artifacts in New Mexico. The author notes that the charges were dropped because the archeologist's actions were driven by academic pursuit and not wholesale looting. The author mentions the inconsistencies and double standards the ARPA law has on average citizens who are indicted and government employees and archeological elite who go free for the same crimes.