[Rockhounds] 4-ton Petoskey Stone Dwarfs Detroit's 93-lb Petoskey Stone (Michigan)

[jgharris7]

Yes. There are government people who stay up at night figuring out how to preserve nature while enabling us to enjoy it and we should applaud them.
Many states and in many cases the federal government completely bans collecting. In cases where they haven't or enforcement has been difficult, sites have been pilfered and destroyed and permanently lost.
We should applaud the fact that Michigan had found such balance.


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-------- Original message --------From: Richard Hill <rhill at lpl.arizona.edu> Date: 10/13/17  6:40 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] 4-ton Petoskey Stone Dwarfs Detroit's 93-lb
  Petoskey Stone (Michigan) 
Yeah, let's see who's going to tumble that!  -Rik

On 10/13/2017 10:40, pmodreski at aol.com wrote:
> Not yet finding which of these links actually would work, I just Googled "4-ton Petosky Stone" and went right to it.  Here's the link that came up & worked for me,
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> http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/11/petoskey-stone-detroit-up-north-alpena/753507001/
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> P.S., I was puzzled when I read in the article about the 93-lb Petosky stone, "collected illegally", "because the rock was more than the 25-poundlimit, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources confiscated it."
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> An earlier article about the 93-pound find clarified this a little more,
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> http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/10/10/93-pound-petoskey-stone-michigan/749069001/
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> "State conservation officers seized it. It’s illegal toremove more than 25 pounds of rocks from the Great Lakes."
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> I guess there are government people who stay up late at night, thinking up regulations to restrict what rockhounds can do.  I presume that is just a Michigan state regulation, as opposed to any adjoining states.  With all the rocks that the glaciers scraped out of the Great Lakes, I wouldn't think it's going to hurt anything, for rockhounds to remove a few more!  [Trying to be understanding, I suppose there needs to be some kind of law, to control someone from conducting a quarrying operation in lake, or removing prominent rock landmarks from the lake to become decorative rocks in their yard or hotel or casino...]
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> Just one more P.P.S., I always wonder why many people's posts (not all) appear in the run-together format like I see below, with everything run together with no end-of-line breaks--it sure does make them really hard to read!
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> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 12, 2017 8:29 pm
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] 4-ton Petoskey Stone Dwarfs Detroit's 93-lb Petoskey Stone (Michigan)
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> But that one is broken too.BK “Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand, I requireonly that you kneel.”--XerxesJ Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USAphotos at: http://pbase.com/photoburnerOn Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:27 PM, J Bryan Kramer <codeburner at gmail.com> wrote:> You need to enclose links inside angle brackets <link> so that the> browser keeps to whole link together. This is not the case with the> first link above, which does not work.>> < http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/11/> petoskey-stone-detroit-up-north-alpena/753507001/>>> is the right way>> BK>>  “Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand, I require> only that you kneel.”>> --Xerxes>> J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA> photos at: http://pbase.com/photoburner>>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:>> Thanks! I shared this with my local rock club here in Michigan.>>>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:>>>>> Detroit's new 93-lb Petoskey stone dwarfed by Up North monstrosity>>>>>> Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, Oct. 11, 2017>>>>>> http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/11/>>> petoskey-stone-detroit-up-north-alpena/753507001/>>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/UpNorthLive/posts/1647437341967622>>>>>> DNR still wants to talk about 'unusual find,' Petoskey stone>>>>>> Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, Sept. 25, 2015>>>>>> http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/09/25/>>> petoskey-stone-finder/72806774/>>>>>> http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/09/24/>>> michigan-petoskey-stone-boulder-lake/72763536/>>>>>> DNR to give 92-pound Petoskey stone new home in Detroit>>>>>> by Roxanne Werly, October 10th 2017>>>>>> http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/dnr-to-give-92-pound-petos>>> key-stone-new-home-in-detroit>>>>>> Yours,>>>>>> Paul H.>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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