[meteorite-list] Canyon Diablo Hunting and Laws?

[Dave Freeman mjwy]

Dear List;
A little off the topic but the security camera room that my buddy saw 
contained about a dozen cameras that are pointed at various points of 
interest around the area to keep an eye on people that can't read the 
signs....
Owning an ATV and a meteal detector....I would think it would be rather 
high risk and low pay unless one knew the exact area one was 
hunting....aimlessly wandering around with or with out an ATV at night 
in snake country wouldn't appeal to me regardless of the meteorite 
possibilities.
Maybe the John's or Dave's could offer an opinion and I am incorrect.
Dave (snake-bitten) Freeman

Alexander Seidel wrote:

>>There are various people that are acitively hunting the strewn field. 
>>This is done mostly at night with ATV's and metal detectors.
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>Is this for sure? :-)
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>>John G. noted: There is also the possibility that some meteorite hunters
>>are still working in the strewn field even though it is now illegal.
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>I´ve been at Meteor Crater for three times in the past 20 or so years, and I
>found ever more increasing restrictions, as time went by. When I was there
>in 1992, I could still make a complete roundtrip hike of the rim (...though
>signs said something like "forbidden" even way back then - well, I admit, a
>little red in the face now, I did not care, and they did not do me any harm
>- nothing but good luck, maybe..). And when I returned a few years later,
>the signs seemed to be much more threatening, clear and distinct, as far as
>I remember, so I did not give it another try, both for circling the crater
>at the rim or performing any searches nearby. But I have heard of people
>searching the area, and the "Barringer police" or whatever they may be
>called (I really don´t know) very carefully seems to observe everything that
>is being performed there. Is this so, or do I have a wrong impression, which
>may be outdated by now?
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>Don´t they observe the area at night? [...just to get back to the top of my
>mail..]
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>>Arizona is an open grazing state and the property is checkerboard with
>>state and private land blocks....or at least from my understanding.  Has  
>>anyone tried to get a permit to search the state properties?
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>Hopping from one state square of the checkerboard to the other state square
>crosstrackwise, with the help from a GPS reading, avoiding the private
>squares? :-)
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>Almost unbelievable. Dear Arizonian meteorite folks on this list: some more
>light shed on this would be welcome...
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>Best regards,
>Alex
>Berlin/Germany
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