New rules for hunting meteorites Options

[Woody]

Looks like the Feds are stepping up and placing restrictions on collecting meteorites. I recognize the interest and benefit science might have but the way I interpret this means more regulations placed on our public lands and activities. This might be a bit of a rant on my part but I hate all these rules and regulations on our public lands. I am reminded about the last time I was in the California N.F. I wanted to spend a couple of days in the back country camping. I found out that I needed a permit in order to even have a campfire. Here is another extreme, I was in Germany a few years ago and got an annual fishing license. It cost about 100$. However, if you actually wanted to use it you had to go down to the county court house before the last business day, and pay an additional cost for each and every day you planned on fishing. It was about 10$ extra per day.

This kind of suggest the same thing, you can’t go out hunting meteorites unless you buy a permit.



http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/15/...intcmp=features

[EMac]

Clay - I'm trying to follow the comments and links provided, but I have much more difficulty following your assertions.

For instance, you link to the Boone and Crockett club to show that Roosevelt and Barringer were friends and founded the club. I can find where this is written about elsewhere, but not on the actual site you link to. Here's a link to their internal search, and my query for Barringer found zero results.

I can find the linkage elsewhere though: MainLineToday

The same goes with your link to the Woodrow Wilson library. A search for Barringer returns zero results as well.

Searching Harvard's library for Barringer returned five results, none related to mining or Daniel Barringer:
- 3 returned results for bibliographies for this Aspects of East Anglian Pre-History, ed. Christopher Barringer. Norwich: Geo Books, 1984 by Christopher Barringer
- 2 returned results for this bibliographic reference: Gerard, P.J., J.R.F. Barringer, J.G. Charles, S.V. Fowler, J.M. Kean, C.B. Phillips, A.B. Tait, G.P. Walker, 2012:
Potential effects of climate change on biological control systems: case studies from New Zealand. BioControl,
advance online, DOI: 10.1007/s10526-012-9480-0

I'm trying to verify what you say, but I'm not readily able to do that.