The "don't rock the boat" attitude is ALWAYS a mistake.
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 19:13:12 +0000 > Subject: [meteorite-list] OFF LIST: BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy > > Doug, > > I fully agree with you... > > Cheers, Nick > > Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D. > [email protected] > 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 > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Doug Ross > [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 1:49 PM > To: Meteorite List List > 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 > [email protected] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
