Wouldn't hot air balloons require a huge amount of fuel to be spent to keep aloft over the hot areas of southern California? Doesn't seem worth while. Troy B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Verish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:35 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sand Dunes and Meteorites
> A number of people (most of them are on this List) > have discussed with me their interest in utilizing hot > air balloons and ultra-lights, in their efforts at > meteorite recovery, over broad areas of sand dunes > here in Southern California. Although I'm not very > optimistic about their prospects in sand dune fields, > I wouldn't want to discourage their efforts. After > all, the area between sand dunes can be considered a > "blow-out" area. And besides, Michael Cottingham > found his Kermit stones in a Texas dune field. > > The locality that most of these individuals have > selected as being the most promising/pristine, is the > Algodones Dunes in Imperial County. But just today, > the LA Times ran an article announcing that this very > Dune Field will be "under consideration for opening up > 49,000 acres to the general public" (meaning, to > off-road vehicular traffic). > More details here: > > U.S. Seeks to Reopen Area to Off-Roaders - > Desert Plan would overturn Clinton decision that > curbed use of sand dunes. > > <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000022361mar28.story?coll=la%2Dheadlin es%2Dcalifornia> > > This post serves as a "heads-up" to those individuals > that were interested in surveying this "pristine" area > from the air, that their time may be running out! > On the other hand, they may have the opportunity to > canvass the area by dune buggy, but they better plan > on getting there early. Some weekends have as many as > 200,000 ORVs flying over the crests of these dunes > from every direction in the "general use (OHV) area". > But plans are to only allow entry to 500 vehicles per > weekend (in the former wilderness area). > > Here's wishing you all good luck, but I'll be sticking > to the firmer, flatter terrain. > :-) Bob V. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover > http://greetings.yahoo.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
