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

[J Bryan Kramer]

There seem to be a number of 'sheep mountains' in Wyoming.

BK

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On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 10:05 AM Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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:
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> > 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
>
>
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