Michigans Right To Act Laws

[dmaki1988]

Michigan's Right To Act Laws

Hello All

I've been thinking about getting into gold prospecting for the last couple of years now. I've herd and I"ve been watching videos of people sluicing and panning in northern and lower Michigan, come to find out back in 2007 the state of Michigan stated that you are only allowed to pan and sluice for the months of July and august with the purchase of a fifty dollar permit and giving a detailed location within 300 feet of were you are going to prospect, the laws also say your sluice box cannot be longer than 55 inches and cannot be deeper than six and a half inches deep. you cannot pan or sluice in any designated trout or natural flowing river or stream or in any natural area?. and you are only allowed to take 15.55 grams of gold per year.

I live in the U.P of Michigan, delta county to be exact and i would say just about anywhere you go up here could be considered a natural area? and just about every river, crick and steam have trout that run through it during the spring time, we do have a lot of state land up here but we also do have federal forestry, The Hiawatha National forest. do these laws and regulations still apply on the federal land or only the state land, it sounds like a fun and great hobby to explore and try but with all the red tape surrounding it what would you do.


Sounds like the political figures in Lansing have to much time on there hands.

 

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[wingmaster]

You could possibly classify your material and bring home buckets of dirt and run them through a sluice at home, I've made a stand for my sluice to run dirt at home when the creek is to dry to run my sluice. Does this rule apply to private property? It might be best to get the buckets of dirt from some private property as most government area's won't allow you to remove anything and don't tell how much gold you come out with in a year as if you get to much the government might want their cut for all the hard work you put in. You could run right on the bank with a bilge pump setup and a battery as well you will need a big plastic container and I use a smaller one to let the tailings fall into that will sit in the larger one, just fill both with water before you start.

 

[JMiner]

The USFS would tell you what trees you can and can't piss on if they had a way to enforce it. I've taken my sluice out many times this winter in the LP. I'm not looking for this "gold" you speak of though. Simply removing lead sinkers and hooks from our waterways :-)

 

[gold tramp]

Hello All

I've been thinking about getting into gold prospecting for the last couple of years now. I've herd and I"ve been watching videos of people sluicing and panning in northern and lower Michigan, come to find out back in 2007 the state of Michigan stated that you are only allowed to pan and sluice for the months of July and august with the purchase of a fifty dollar permit and giving a detailed location within 300 feet of were you are going to prospect, the laws also say your sluice box cannot be longer than 55 inches and cannot be deeper than six and a half inches deep. you cannot pan or sluice in any designated trout or natural flowing river or stream or in any natural area?. and you are only allowed to take 15.55 grams of gold per year.

I live in the U.P of Michigan, delta county to be exact and i would say just about anywhere you go up here could be considered a natural area? and just about every river, crick and steam have trout that run through it during the spring time, we do have a lot of state land up here but we also do have federal forestry, The Hiawatha National forest. do these laws and regulations still apply on the federal land or only the state land, it sounds like a fun and great hobby to explore and try but with all the red tape surrounding it what would you do.


Sounds like the political figures in Lansing have to much time on there hands.

15 what go west

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[mattfink]

I believe you can pan anytime but sluicing is restricted to july and august from what I read and with a permit

 

[Gravelwasher]

Piss on a tree, you can do that their? They put you on megans law if you get caught here in California, ...lol What a joke cant pee in the woods anymore, the authorities hiding in trees try an catch ya here.

 

[grzbear]

Like Tickle on moonshiners said (it,s all legal till you get caught) --pee on there boots.