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Prairie creek is in Cali fern valley in the redwood national park lol I want to go there
 

lol whatever happen to dont ask dont tell its not like park rangers are at every corner right
 

It is against federal law to remove anything from the natural environment in a National Park. The only exception is gold prospecting in two parks up in Alaska. The penalties can be stiff and the impact on the prospecting community is negative too.
 

My oops on location - Sorry! NeoTokyo can tell you what happened to him last fall with N.P. Rangers - it wasn't pretty. He got lucky and kept his MD
 

Well said Kuger
 

Hey Pirate, they will do worse than make you walk the plank for sure. Prairie Creek and Fern Canyon are truly beautiful place here on the north coast of California. If you want to see some of the biggest trees in the world and trophy Roosevelt Elk come visit these places, but don't pan for gold in Prairie Creek.

If you would like to do some panning for gold in redwood country come a little further north and try the Smith River. Here too we have great trees, huge elk and fantastic salmon and steelhead. It's pans and hand tools only (Six Rivers National Forest) in one of the most beautiful rivers in the country.

I was working beside the Smith River the other day and along a riffle of about 300 yards in length, there was a bald eagle, a golden eagle, a red tailed hawk and a couple crows. The eagles and the hawk were all perched in trees pretty much evenly spaced along this run and the 2 crows were pestering the hell out of the red tail. The eagles were hoping for an unaware steelhead. Quite a sight, I'll remember it always.

Mike
 

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Del: that sounds amazing! I will have to check that out once camping season is on.
 

delnorter said:
Hey Pirate, they will do worse than make you walk the plank for sure. Prairie Creek and Fern Canyon are truly beautiful place here on the north coast of California. If you want to see some of the biggest trees in the world and trophy Roosevelt Elk come visit these places, but don't pan for gold in Prairie Creek.

If you would like to do some panning for gold in redwood country come a little further north and try the Smith River. Here too we have great trees, huge elk and fantastic salmon and steelhead. It's pans and hand tools only (Six Rivers National Forest) in one of the most beautiful rivers in the country.

I was working beside the Smith River the other day and along a riffle of about 300 yards in length, there was a bald eagle, a golden eagle, a red tailed hawk and a couple crows. The eagles and the hawk were all perched in trees pretty much evenly spaced along this run and the 2 crows were pestering the hell out of the red tail. The eagles were hoping for an unaware steelhead. Quite a sight, I'll remember it always.

Mike
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thanks for the info and the only reason i want to pan in redwoods area is bc it was a film location of two of my favorite movie star wars 6 return of the jedi and the lost world of jurassic park
 

NJnuggetpirate said:
ahaha Kuger ok lol some of these eastern states have good gold
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...well good then,break the law there,we dont need any more problems then we already have here.....Thank You
 

alright i wont if i do get around to going to CA can you help me find good location
 

Almost anywhere in norther n cali is good for gold. If you do make it out this way, I ll turn you onto some good rec area gold.
 

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