[Geysers] People on Minute Man Geyser

[SCOTT BRYAN]

Well, as I think I personally made rather clear, permit or not they are (were) standing on a rare and delicate natural feature, and whether they were "trained" or not, they caused damage to the formation. Clearly, the NPS does not wish to admit to that. And, I might add, why did the person writing the data also have to be on the formation?

Anyway, I note this evening that the subject photo of Minute Man is not longer on the website. My, my. But as Paul Strasser noted, check out the photo of Mortar Geyser. Ah well, why don't I just attach it before it, too, gets removed!

Those people were involved with the production of the Geothermal Inventory that has gotten recent attention in these missives. As I've noted, the NPS people seem to believe that their GPS positions are accurate to the 1/10,000,000th of a degree -- for example here, they cite Minute Man Geyser as being at latitude 44.3547549 [deg N] longitude 110.7984134 [deg W]. As pointed out previously, it is [my opinion again] rather dumb to presume that accuracy: 1 degree of latitude is a bit more than 69 miles (1 degree of longitude is, too, but only at the equator). So 1/10,000,000 of 69 miles (1 degree) = approximately 0.437 inch of latitude and considerably less than that of longitude. So what happens if the equipment jiggles just a little bit....?]

OK, so I'm a Curmudgeon. But this ----- (errr, ticks) me off.

Scott Bryan

  Subject: RE: [Geysers] People on Minute Man Geyser

  Wild guess - they're most likely geologists, in the back country, they have
  a permit and are doing more accurate cartographic work?

  Janet White



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