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Show tion wherever petrified wood may be found, several small but outstanding deposits have been identified and closed to collectors. In Utah, Mr. Niel-son Niel-son said, the .closed areas include in-clude Tenmile Canyon area of 680 acres, approximately 25 miles northwest of Moab; Nancy Patterson Canyon area of 382 acres, 20 miles southeast south-east of Blanding; Alkali Canyon Can-yon area of 480 acres, 18 miles southeast of Blanding; Deer Flat area of 560 acres, 30 miles west of Blanding; and Blue Notch area of 880 acres, 18 miles northwest of Natural Bridges National Monument. Rockhounds get new regulation New Federal regulations authorizing au-thorizing rockhounds to collect col-lect petrified wood from public pub-lic domain lands have been announced an-nounced by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, according ac-cording to R. D. Nielson, State Director for Utah for the US Bureau of Land Management. Under the new rules, each collector daily may take up to 25 pounds, plus one piece, without charge, on condition that the fossilized mineral is collected for recreation and as a hobby. The annual limit per person is 250 pounds. Secretary Secre-tary Udall in his announcement announce-ment stressed that petrified wood taken free of charge must be for personal use and may not be bartered or sold to commercial dealers. Although most of the public domain will be open to collec- |