[meteorite-list] Secret BLM maps

From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:30:35 EDT
Message-ID: <a4a10.80fcbdb.3a048e0b_at_aol.com>

Hello Sonny, Paul, Adam,
 
When I am not dealing with meteorites, I am a member of the Archaeology
Institute of America - Denver Chapter. Recently a professor of Archaeology from
the University of Colorado gave us a presentation on the rock art,
petroglypghs of the southwest that he had been studying for years, and he explained
that he no longer tell anyone the exact locations of the sites he knows, he
simply had seen too many vandalized with spray paint, or chiseled off,
destroying whole sites.
 
Also you might remember a raid conducted in Blanding, south eastern Utah,
last year that netted some 20 or more arrests and the recovery of room-fulls
of artifacts of all kinds. Private collections? no, big business.
 
It should be a surprise to no one that rangers are asking more and more
questions, and that the laws are being tightened.
 
Anne M. Black
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_IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
_http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)
 
 
In a message dated 11/4/2010 4:14:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
wahlperry at aol.com writes:
Hi Adam and List,

>We can't tell you anything about locations. In fact there are many
more petroglyphs and over a hundred caves that are not on;your maps
and we can't tell you anything about."

This is for the protection and preservation of the native rock art and
artifacts. I have photographed numerous locations only to return and to
find the petroglyphs missing or destroyed. One area 20' by 20'
overhang / wall was covered with numerous carvings and removed by
heavy equipment. At another location we found what looked to be a
petroglyph of a man on a horse with one arm. This area was explored
by Major John Wesley Powell in 1869, the same fate could possible occur
at this location if it was public knowledge.

Sonny
Received on Thu 04 Nov 2010 06:30:35 PM PDT