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| Five Convicted Of Illegal Occupancy On Federal Lands |
| 2010-08-26 |
| Oregon's federal prosecutors are cracking down on gold miners who reside on government-managed lands without approval. U.S. Attorney Dwight C. Holton announced today the convictions of five people for unlawful occupancy on property managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The latest of the convictions came today, when U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman sentenced Michael Backlund to one year of bench probation and ordered him to pay a fine of $700. Map of federal lands. The gold *panning* is an excuse. The feds do not want the common man putting "footy prints" all over "their" land. The best of it is reserved for federally authorized purposes and persons only. Otherwise, the hoi polloi must pay use fees for what was once free. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting four, Country Joe McDonald. |
| Posted by: bman 2010-08-26 15:58 |
| #2 No. This is they sort of BS the BLM is pulling because it's getting more and more Why, do you ask? Because the BLM is making way for more "Wilderness Areas." All part of the undeclared class war urban Americans are waging on rural Americans. If once can even consider city-dwellers to be genuinely American. I don't. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2010-08-26 13:09 |
| #1 There are proper ways to file mining claims. Some of these folks try to pass off a small commercial operation off as recreational panning. Gets especially bad if they in effect claim a certain area and discourage others from working it. If they had outbuildings and equipment that is a commercial operation on public lands and needs to be dealt with as such. |
| Posted by: tipover 2010-08-26 12:31 |
