[meteorite-list] Fw: Secret BLM maps ?

From: R N Hartman <rhartman04_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:20:49 -0700
Message-ID: <58D3F1DF426042ADB94DD17E4216977C_at_DBZC5NB1>

There are regions in the California Coastal Mountains that I have studied as
a student in Ed Krupps Archaeoastronomy courses. They are at several
thousand feet and some locations look down onto the central valley. There
are many caves that have meaningful Chumash Indian paintings. Although
there are no public maps, if you come within 50 or so feet of a protected
historic site there are warning signs that you are in such an area and not
to touch anything if you happen to come upon such. These are regions that
are only accessible by gated and very treacherous fire roads and you really
don't want to drive a passenger car along one. But very interesting. We
went into a number of caves and Dr. Krupp explained many their calendar
markings and astronomical events they had calculated and shown on cave
walls. Here is a link to a map you are allowed to use to find one cave with
cave paintings:
http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/pcmap.htm

Marking the entrance of the caves are huge bushel-basket sized meteorites!
(Just kidding about that!) No meteorites :=)

Ron Hartman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas" <tmorgan at mind.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 8:33 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Secret BLM maps ?


> Last week I was walking along a dry lake bed and looked up to see the
> inevitable white truck parked next to mine. I walked back and had a nice
> talk with a BLM officer. He was concerned that we were picking up
> artifacts, which we were not. My wife mentioned that we were going to look
> for some petroglyphs and asked him about the roads in that area. "No Mam",
> he says. "We can't tell you anything about locations. In fact there are
> many more petroglyphs and over a hundred caves that are not on your maps
> and we can't tell you anything about."
>
> Which makes me think that these locations must be a matter of record
> somewhere. Does the BLM have secret maps not available to the public?
>
> Thomas M
>
> Petroglyph pictures if anyone's interested :
> http://www.photoblog.com/GreyDX/
>
> ______________________________________________
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
Received on Thu 04 Nov 2010 01:20:49 AM PDT