The Georgia Mineral Society has organized many field trips over the past few years to some excellent fossil collection localities: Cross, SC; Parsons, TN; Lumpkin, GA; Fort Payne, AL; Coon Creek, TN; These are all large collecting areas that can handle a big crowd of collectors.

I have found other fossiliferous sites over the years that can only be visited infrequently and with a small group. In fact, this is the nature of most of the fossil sites I know. Most of these sites are very far away, minor exposures, on private property, and/or are of scientific importance. I try to give members who attend the Fossil Section Meetings a chance to visit some of these 'special' places. 

Lately there have been a few trips with Jim Knight, Curator of Natural History at the South Carolina State Museum. He is currently working on a number of projects and sometimes needs volunteers to help collect fossils for the museum. Last year our group helped out at a site near Andalusia, AL, and we recovered a couple dozen fossil eocene snake vertebra for him. This year he took a few of us to a site near Ridgeville, SC to look for Pliocene vertebrate fossils. 

And there have also been a few trips where we get to keep everything we find! Trilobite collecting in Cincinnati, OH; Fossil pliocene molluscs in Florence, SC; Silurian blastoids and cystoids in TN...And more trips are in the planning stage...