[Rockhounds] Large Paleozoic Impact Crater Strewn Field in the Rocky Mountains (Open Access )

[Mike Flannigan]

The sheep mountain you talk about is here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.67298,+-105.47216+%28Coordinates%29&iwloc=A&hl=en

You are correct that there is not much BLM
land there:
http://www.mflan.com/temp/sheep.jpg


Mike


On 1/19/2019 2:00 PM, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:

> I'm afraid that's a different Sheep Mountain in Wyoming! The coords are
> given in the paper and translate (Google-friendly format) to
> 42.67722 -105.46667, which matches the maps in the paper.
>
> I happen to have the Douglas, WY BLM map, and sadly, it shows this
> entire area around (this particular) Sheep Mountain is private.
> However, county road 8 runs about a mile away from the center, and there
> are many two-trackers shown on Google Earth plus the BLM map.  I wonder
> if the ranchers would give permission to visit?  Maybe not, in the
> recent decades they've mostly become very protective and unfriendly to
> outsiders.
>
> Still interesting to me, it's just 2.5 hours up the road from home...
>
> Cheers,
> Alan Silverstein