I have a funny feeling this was "sparked" by the recent fall on BLM land at Battle Mountain!
Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On Sep 20, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Adam Hupe <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim stated: > > > "While they are claiming media sparked this, most of us knew it was coming, > just did not know when or how the wording would be." > > My experience has been when high monetary values are attached to any object > or pursuit, governments will quickly become interested. They cant help it, > controlling and taxing everything is in their nature. > > These are some tough new rules that all of of us now have have live by. We > can thank the recent popularization of meteorite collecting/hunting in the > media for making all of us who pursue a wholesome avocation look like > poachers! Now the BLM has the tools necessary to wipe out field gathering > all together. Once tighter rules are in place, it is much easier to change > them to state "No meteorite collecting whatsoever." I see this happening > very soon. > > I have already been through all of this as a treasure hunter and had to > abandon that hobby over ten years ago. We will soon join the ranks of > artifact, treasure and fossil hunters. Thank you to everybody who made this > possible. > > > I was hoping for another decade of unimpeded hunting. > > > Not so happy hunting, > > Adam > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
