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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>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!</DIV>
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<DIV>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....?]</DIV>
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<DIV>OK, so I'm a Curmudgeon. But this ----- (errr, ticks) me off.</DIV>
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<DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV>
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RE: [Geysers] People on Minute Man Geyser<BR><BR>Wild guess - they're most
likely geologists, in the back country, they have<BR>a permit and are doing
more accurate cartographic work?<BR><BR>Janet
White<BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>