[meteorite-list] How about a thread to discuss hunting ethics

[George Blahun Jr]

Mike:
      Thanks for sharing your experience and views.  Your comments  
really struck home for me.  Many of us tend to think because we all  
live in the USA that things are not that different a few hundred miles  
in one direction or another.  During the 1970s I hitch hiked and  
hopped freight trains to see the US.  The south was a harsh  
dichotomy.  On one hand, I met some of the nicest most trusting people  
who opened their homes to me.  On the other hand, I was shot at,  
assaulted with bottles from passing cars, harassed and chased by law  
enforcement.  It was a quick lesson in cultural differences.  While I  
was not officially collecting meteorites back then, I learned very  
quickly that wandering far from urban areas was done at great risk.  I  
have literally dozens of stories which people have a difficult time  
believing, but your recent experience tells me that in many areas not  
much has changed.  This is why I eventually tried to restrict my  
travels to as close to the coast as possible.  Hopefully, others on  
this list will take your warning seriously and not venture into any  
area for which they don't have permission or any place that doesn't  
want us.  I for one am content to let residents of the stone age keep  
to themselves.

George