Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/13

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Drones in Yosemite
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:10:59 -0500
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I was going to suggest requiring steel or tungsten shot, same as hunting 
waterfowl, out of respect for the environment.  But give it a couple of 
years and we'll have handheld lasers that will work fine.  The healing 
brush will take care of that occasional puff of smoke in the sky.

On 5/13/2014 4:53 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> Shoot them down!
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> On 5/12/14 4:17 PM, "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Last week, the National Park Service issued a statement reminding visitors
>> that federal regulations ban the use of drones within Yosemite National 
>> Park.
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>> Drone sightings there have become a nearly daily occurrence in the 
>> venerated
>> national park, with the devices buzzing loudly near waterfalls, above 
>> meadows
>> or over treetops as guests use them to capture otherwise impossible-to-get
>> photographs of the breathtaking landscape.
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>> Source: RISKS
>>
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