Enjoying the gorgeous day...until the FS arrived

[oneguy]

Trying to get in a few more days and we had a beautiful day today!!!!!! Everything going great at my big operation (lol) until a Forest Service gal showed up! It started out pretty friendly and she said she wasn't here to issue a "cease and desist" order but just to see how things were going, etc. Here's a pic of my big time operation that consists of 1 hole 4-5 ft wide and about 5-6ft deep but no lower than water table (river height) but the bank is 4 ft high. By the time she got outta there I was informed my little AM sluice couldn't be used in the river (no discharging tailings into river). No moving boulders that could change the water course....lol I told her this river is always changing and has for eons and next spring you won't even know I've been in here? By the time she left it went from me cussing the govn. and her saying she'll have to notify her superior...... I kept laughing saying a 63yr old man who's had a heart attack, been thru 6 months of chemo, femur surgery, down to 140lbs, with a bad back and arthritis, who's just trying to enjoy some river time......can alter the life course of an ever changing river with a #2 shovel.

Anyways....had a great day "taking a knee" on the river until the Gov. showed up.

Unbelievable the crap a person has to go thru nowdays to scratch a little on a FEDERAL MINING CLAIM........(sigh)

I haven't worked up the cons yet....

 

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[Bejay]

She was not harassing me and we both kept things polite but I did let her know how I felt about gov. intrusion in EVERYTHING and especially on an old broke down guy scratching around on a Federal MINING claim with a #2 shovel just trying to enjoy retirement on a beautiful day. I was actually laughing while looking down and shaking my head in disbelief of the crap I was hearing? She did say she'd be notifying her superior....

I'll talk with some other claim owners who've dealt with these guys before and see what have to say about how hard or easy they are to get along with...?

I guess I took your post wrong.......as you were enjoying your day until you had a USFS agent interrupt you and ruin your day. If the agent ruins my day without justification I tend to call it being harassed. But I always ask "from where do you cite your authority";.... if they contend I am not performing in accordance with agency policies that are supposed to be justified by Law. We tend to think their CFRs are the law and most often the applicable CFRs are not cited and CFRs are not law. If she is notifying her superior she believes you were in the wrong. Call it what you will. But the term harass has legal merit and has been used to place the USFS and BLM on notice that you "don't appreciate" being made out to be in the wrong"....it tends to ruin the day and take the enjoyment out of finding the gold...IMHO

Hope your days are enjoyable.

Bejay

 

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