[meteorite-list] "Glorieta, no hunting allowed

From: Steve Schoner <schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:17:48 GMT
Message-ID: <20080809.151748.4701.0_at_webmail09.dca.untd.com>

Don Rawlings wrote:

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:31:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Don Rawlings <psc2410xi at yahoo.com>

"Steve.........

Do you suppose anyone has gotten permission to hunt the Meteor Crater area in light of all the CD coming on to the market in the past few years? Or maybe these are just old collections that have finally been bought from their ancestors. Yeah, I bet that's it.

Don Rawlings"

Right Don, especially all those fresh uncleaned apparently never handled specimens including some of those very large ones... All "found" in as you say "just old collections."

Being that I live in Flagstaff, and am quite known as a meteorite collector-- strange that those old time collectors have not contacted me in the last 10 or more years.

Oh well, I suppose that some have a higher profile than me...

But...

Meteor Crater Enterprises has made it very clear to me, and I suppose others, that any caught looking for and digging up meteorites out there will be arrested. And I tried back in 1992 to get a permit from the BLM, Meteor Crater Enterprises, and Bar-T-Bar working with Arizona State University's, Carlton Moore, UCLA's John Wasson, and even USGS's Eugene Shoemaker, and David Roddy backing me-- But to no avail. It was for a legitimate scientific project that has been on my mind for many years. And the scientific proposal was written by me, amended and approved by all those that backed me.

If Meteor Crater Enterprises, Bar-T-Bar, and AZ BLM won't work with me or those well known scientists who endorsed my project, then I doubt that anyone could get a permit to collect Canyon Diablo meteorites for their personal collections, let alone for science.

Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470



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