Bobby,
Thanks for the Dugway!
Frank,
Thanks for the comments.
Maps get into a sticky situation.
1) I don't have permission from anybody to use their maps or modify them. Filling those out would take a huge amount of research beyond my current task. Presently, it's relatively easy (though time consuming) to pull images from various websites, but I would need to rely on locals to shade the locations of maps I currently don't have.
2) The guide is more of a identification guide than a field guide. The initial goal of this project was to create a visual guide for IDing material - not provide a roadmap/hunting guide for collectors. Would that be wonderful? Heck, yes, but it is way beyond my means. You might want to try Cy Johnson's Gem Atlas's. They actually provide a wealth of general hunting locations - but no real directions.
3) My goal for the next incarnation is to add photos of the dig sites/landmarks.
(Oh - next update is 2 years from now - how's that for a time-line ---I have a history of my club to work on next --3,000 pages of documents including 90% of our monthly newsletters dating back to 1959, our original handwritten meeting notes from the initial meeting in 1944 to the 1950's, huge amounts of letters, documents, and two boxes of slides to convert to digital that show fieldtrips from the 1940's through the 1960's. One of our members was extremely active field-tripper for several decades and took piles of incredible photos. I am adding advertising images from lapidary magazines from those times as well as quoting prices from the personal ads from the back of the magazines. I envision this history of our club to act also as a limited snapshot of the history of rockhunting in So Cal - with the mentioning of location closures, government activity, innovations, and the formation of the CFMS and AFMS. whew--- Just a little project....)
4) AND - if my plate isn't big enough - I am in the middle of putting together a Field Guide to the Hauser Geode Beds. I haven't had a chance to work on it beyond a general outline. Ideally, I'd love to do small field guides to So Cal locations that I know - color photos of both material and location landmarks. Alas, there's only so much time.
Thanks as always,
Lowell