" but everybody is free to do what he wants… "
That also means that somebody is free to display pictures of a place (in 99.99% of cases, pictures of this place have already been published by somebody else on the web or on paper, that's why he looked for it and founded it) and is still be free to not disclose its location without beeing considered by others as a "bad guy" (as "das sind die schlimmsten" about me and my friends on this thread), for some reasons that he thinks beeing right : very fragile places or features, rock art or ruins that have to be protected, some places on Indian reservations (as the one we are talking about) for several reasons, places forbidden to visit without a guide or on private properties, and, last but not least, even for personal reasons as a promise made to the friends who told him this location and asked not to disclose it (for their own reasons whenever he agrees or not to them) beause a promise to a friend has not to be broken (personnaly, I will never break that kind of promise even if sometimes it is not easy to manage with some others close friends that ask me for it). If there is no strict promise to respect, it is also acceptable that somebody only tells some locations to very close friends that he knows for years and that he trusts in, for the same "right reasons" that you can read above.
But the same guy who don't want to disclose some very few locations can decide to publish the location of some other interesting places still seldom seen and that everybody could visit without too much risk or trouble for these places or the inhabitants around. As an example, in the early 2000, I personnally found the location of places like Wahweap Hoodoos, Egg Factory in Bisti badlands, False Kiva (at a time when only a very few pictures of them were published and when there was absolutely no information about their precise location on the web or in guidebooks) and I decided with Laurent Martres to publish them in Photographing the Southwest. My close German friends did the same with locations that they founded by themselves and that they published on their web sites.
We have to admit that in the real life, almost nothing is black or white but is rather different kind of greys, and that human beeings can have their own reasons to do "that" or "not that" depending of the circumstances, without being treated as "good" or "bad". This is just my opinion....
This will be my only post about that subject, as I want that everybody here knows my position (even if it is not accepted), I don't want to begin a series of contreversial posts about this sensible subject as it happened about English speaking on this forum !
Gruss
Philippe
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Edit for Westernlady :
As I was writing this long post, I didn't read the edited version of your post before answering it.
Now that I have read it, I can also understand some of your concerns as you probably understand part of mine.
), even for money, and that "he doesn't respect any permits given by Cameron, Window Rock or any Chapter House, because it is his land". As I don’t want to meet him again, I am not sure I will come back in this area in the future… 
) by chance in the wilderness in May 2010 (I was surprised when Helge said hello calling me by my name 
). Even if this place is no more a secret, we advised Helge to remove off his website the precise information and GPS waypoints about this area, as there could be big problems if somebody following his information encounters this “hostile Navajo” (and/or somebody of his family) or if somebody leaves his SUV unattended while hiking (some flat tires in this remote area could be a very big trouble !). That’s just our point of view but everybody is free to do what he wants…
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