answer:I think the law is currently that you have to spend some time “turning it in” to find the owner, and if it is not claimed within a certain amount of time, then you can keep it. Did you find anything with the DEP? Surely there must be some owner information somewhere. You could also put an ad in the newspaper, asking if it’s someone’s and the way to claim it is to have the person identify (from memory) a special mark or characteristic about it. If there is nothing like that or no claims are made after a month, then I would just keep it.