Help with permit requirements for SE Arizona

[Mike Quinn]

There's no need to collect in the National Wildlife Refuges or National
Monuments of South East Arizona as there is nothing in them that is not in
the surrounding Bureau of Land Management or National Forest lands where
collecting is permitted ... without a permit. Mike Quinn, Donna, TX

>Be careful around Coronado National Monument: the rangers around there
>have had considerable trouble with poacjers and drug-runners.  Tell them
>ahead of time what yoiu are doing; that *should* work, but I wouldn't
>put my life on the line over it.  I know a couple researchers who were
>quite boldly harrassed by both NPS and FWS personbnel who were firmly
>convionced that they were the only ones who could legally be in the area
>(the road between Canelo and Hereford).  With friends like that, who
>needs enemies?