Inscriptions

I find <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/08/build/wyoming/40-inscriptions.inc">this story</a> very interesting. <br />n<br />n<i>For the state of Wyoming, any etchings on the rock over 50 years old are designated as historic, said Gary Schoene, spokesman for Department of State Parks and Historic Sites.</i><br />n<br />nIt would be curious to know what the state of Montana's policy is on making scratches in rocks historic. There are many rocks around here that have scrathes in them that are over 50 years old. It is really neat to look at them and see the parade of people that have left thier mark on the sandstone around here. Just last year I found an inscription in a rock in the middle of one of my fields that was dated in 1915. That is the earlist one I have found yet. I have carved my initials in more than one rock around here so I guess someday they will be historical, That's pretty neat when you think about it.<br />n<br />n<b>Alas! While your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues, with monuments, and with inscriptions to eternalize, if possible, your names, and give yourselves an existence, when this body is no more, why must we be condemned to live and die unknown? Thomas Paine </b>