[meteorite-list] Natiional Forest Rules

[Robert Verish]

Adam is right about National Forest rules not permitting meteorite collecting.  And, 
I'm not surprised that many of their forest service rangers are unaware of that fact and, 
more importantly, among the rangers that I have spoken with, most don't really know 
why it isn't permitted.  It's weird, when I tell them the reason "why", they actually argue 
with me saying that I "must be wrong, because that reason is insane."
Well, enough about that insanity. 

I just wanted to point that while Adam is right, that most dry-lakes are on public lands, 
not all are.  There are many on other kinds of properties.  And those on military bases 
are obviously out of the jurisdiction of the BLM.  Rest assured that if they can't make 
any money off of the meteorite find, they could care less.  So, if you have the rare opportunity 
to acquire a meteorite from a dry-lake located on a military base, you can forget about 
all this generalization about dry-lakes.  None of the rules relating to public lands and the 
BLM applies to these other dry-lakes. 

Bob V. 

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On Fri, 6/3/16, Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

 Subject: [meteorite-list] Natiional Forest Rules
 To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
 Date: Friday, June 3, 2016, 12:47 PM
 
I had a List member comment that a forest service ranger told him it was ok 
to collect meteorites.  I double-checked to see if the rules have changed 
and the answer seems to still be, NO.  This also means that most meteorites 
found of dry lake beds are off-limits to be sold since most are on federal 
land which now has very limited use by the public due to so many new 
regulations.