Comments on: Petrified Wood at Mesa de Cuba, NM

By: ken

ken — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:38:43 +0000

I’ll take that rock, take me a deer and clean my trout with it. Just what i need and nothing more. Healing, hunting, meditation, herb garden, theses are good reasons to take the stone, or any stone. Theirs more to it than just what meats the eye. Not for greed, only for life should u take the stone.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:58:47 +0000

This is a great site. But you might also consider the lands near Toadlena & Two Grey Hills Trading Post. Really beautiful agatized and petrified woods. Although this is on Navaho Res. you can get permission to hunt (free permit?) from the Navaho Nation Hdqts. at Window Rock, Ariz. The folks there were very accomadating. They just ask you limit youself to around 25 lbs. of material, and of course respect the land and peoples of this area

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:31:42 +0000

I pick up petrified wood here at my work site every day for lunch. I have probably moved about 10 tons of it over the past 3 years. I hand pick through it and save the best stuff for my Mom’s rock garden in Wyoming, and the rest of it I put in barrels outside for the rest of the guys, and they use it for rock gardens at their houses. Every rainstorm produces more, and this stuff would go totally unappreciated if it weren’t collected and used.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:22:21 +0000

Barbara..you’re so politically correct. I don’t need a stupid law to tell me its wrong to pick up a few pieces of rock to show my friends and family. The rock will most certainly outlast all of us, so there’s no danger of it being lost to the world! duh.

By: Leonard B. Wallace

Leonard B. Wallace — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:22:06 +0000

It is not illegal to collect on BLM land.
you may collect as much as 25 pounds of petrified wood, plus one piece per day, for your personal use. You may collect as much as 250 pounds of petrified wood in any calender year. There is more, if anyone is interested see BLM. For the rest of the rules.

By: tobias

tobias — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:20:10 +0000

Barbara, as mentioned in a private email to you: I’m all with you when it comes to sharing rare, precious natural items with others and not removing them from their original location. I also mention that this, in my humble opinion, applies to “rare” items.
I have no idea how many tons of petrified wood are at this location (there are whole trees). I also have no idea how many tons are produced with every rain, but I suspect the sum is more than you can pack on any large truck at the moment. I have about a pound of petrified wood from that location in my possession. Yes, I feel bad for taking it, but in the grand scheme of things, I did not consider my taking making any measurable impact. So, please forgive me.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:31:14 +0000

You are not supposed to pick up and take. You leave them there so other people can look at them and enjoy them also.

By: kahunaburger » Angel Peak, Farmington and Chaco Canyon

kahunaburger » Angel Peak, Farmington and Chaco Canyon — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:53:26 +0000

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