[meteorite-list] OFF LIST: BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

[Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D.]

Doug,

I fully agree with you...

Cheers, Nick

Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D.
nick.gessler at duke.edu
http://isis.duke.edu/gessler
Research Associate (ISIS)
INFORMATION SCIENCE & INFORMATION STUDIES
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Courses:
ARTIFICIAL LIFE, CULTURE & EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
       Multiagent Complex Systems / ISIS-170, CompSci-107, VisMedStudies-172
ESPIONAGE, CRYPTOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
       Networks of Trust, Secrecy & Deception / ISIS-235, CultAnth-226
METEORITES & SOLAR SYSTEM HISTORY
       History of & Simulations in the Science of Meteoritics / ISIS-230, EarthOceanSci-230

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From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] on behalf of Doug Ross [doug at dougross.net]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

This "Meteorite List" is turning into a "Politics List"!  lol I can understand both sides of the debate, and as a small time private hunter, sure I would like for the BLM to explicitly grant me broad, unrestricted permission to hunt meteorites to my heart's content on public land. But is that likely to happen? Of course not. As it stands, I don't feel particularly hindered by the current guidelines. My concern is that mounting an aggressive campaign to elicit a revision in these guidelines could backfire. The easiest answer for a bureaucrat to give, when pressed for a response, is "No". I'm happy to support any effort to document the accomplishments and contributions to meteoritical science by private hunters. I just hope that it is handled in a way that doesn't provoke an outright hunting ban by the Feds next year.

Doug Ross
doug at dougross.net



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