True, some sort of organized effort with appropriate guidelines would likely yield a large amount of folks ready to help uncover history. It seems it’s one of those things where it’s easier for a group to do nothing than spend some time planning, yet the benefits to historical preservation and the positive public involvement would be great. Even if it was something as simple as one part of a historic area was opened up for an archaeological-level search per year, it could be a pilot to test the effectiveness, could be closely monitored, all discoveries documented, and the history learned about and preserved.