Prosecutors claim that Jettmar had to know she was breaking the law. As a former national park ranger, they believe the law enforcement training Jettmar received for that job in the 1980s would have included the law she's accused of breaking. Even had she forgotten the rules, she knew enough to include them in her Alaska river guidebook, which mentions "federal regulations concerning collection of archeological, paleontological and cultural resources," according the indictment.
Jettmar was acutely aware of the prehistoric sights her clients might encounter exploring the northern reaches of Alaska's Brooks Range. For $4,695, adventurers would be led by canoe and on foot through National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, land on which the famed Western Arctic Caribou herd roams.
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