Up Coming Events

Our club had a booth again this year at the GPAA Gold Show. More photos can be found on the Outings page.

The Nye Gold Seekers from Pahrump had their booth next to ours. While visiting with them I realized that they have a claim next to our old claim in the Jonnie Mining District.

A point was raised that by participating in both clubs it could help influence the government regulators in their efforts to close off Public Lands to prospecting. And, you would have additional ground to prospect that's closer to town.

Special Notice: A decision has been made to roll back the annual dues to $45.00 for new members and $30.00 for renewals.

Here is a link to the ICMJ to find recent articles regarding the status of dredging and other land access issues.

The description is (Gold Searchers of Southern Nevada, Inc. are on TV! Local TV station News Channel 8 does a story about a club that prospects for Gold!)

Nicolas L. Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: new49ers@aweber.com [mailto:new49ers@aweber.com] On Behalf Of Dave
McCracken
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:25 AM
To: Nicolas
Subject: Action Alert; we need your help now!

Dear Nicolas

Our lobbyists in Sacramento are asking for as many letters,
faxes or emails that we can generate right now in opposition
to California Senate Bill 670.

To help with details, we have placed an Action Alert at:

http://www.goldgold.com/legal/670_actionalert.htm

The Action Alert includes a link to a sample message which
you can copy and paste from.

Please note that we are asking you to send your messages
directly to our address. This way, our lobbyists can
personally make sure all of the messages and copies reach
their proper destinations.

Thanks for any help you can give us on this!

Dave Mack

The New 49er's, 27 Davis Road, Happy Camp, California 96039, USA

I received the following email on this bill. All of us need to send an email to congress so this bill can be stopped. If we let our guard down now, this is what they want. They just keep pushing it through until we give up. Let's show them we are not quitters. Thank you all.

The house just passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. I have already sent a message, via Congress.org, to President Obama, encouraging him to Veto this bill. Please pass this on to all of our members and anyone else who will listen. Below is the link to the Congress.org web site and there you will find the links to send the messages.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=153&chamber=H&congress=1111

Hi,

I am the owner of goldminershq.com and a BOD member of the World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers.

I received a notice from from the club about a new "Land Management Bill" that swept through Congress this week.

Collect a rock on Public Lands and you may lose your car. No joke!

It is important that all Americans who use BLM Lands to contact representatives before the bill, known both as S. 22 and the "Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009" is approved, as expected, and heads to the White House for President Obama's signature.

You can view more info on this:
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89733

I also copied & pasted the basic info at the bottom of this page.

PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ALONG TO YOUR MEMBERS.
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Thank you for your time,

Bruce Harris
Webmaster GMHq

Owner / Mining Consultant
Heavy Metal Mining Company, Springfield, Missouri, USA
Research & development of placer mining equipment and publishing agency.
Heavy Metal Mining Book Store
Opened business 9-11-90

Own & Operate the "Gold Miner's Headquarters" Internet site
www.goldminershq.com.
Opened 6-6-99

Author:
Gold Miner's Handbook, Finding That Perfect Location, Gold
Placer Geology, Modern Dredge Sampling, The Modern Gold
Dredge

Member
World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers (W.W.A.T.S), w.w.w.WATTS.Org
State Director for Missouri and on the WWATS BOD.
Member since 2-19-03

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YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Collect a rock, lose your car
Ominous forfeiture provisions in new bill restricting use of federal land
Posted: February 22, 2009
9:43 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON - A land management bill that swept through the U.S. Senate last month and is headed for a House vote this week punishes rock collectors and paleontologists with arrest and expropriation of their cars and other equipment for even unknowingly disturbing fossils on public land, say critics.

In the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, a "forfeiture" provision would let the government confiscate "all vehicles and equipment of any person" who digs up or removes a rock or a bone from federal land that meets the bill's broad definition of "paleontological resource," says a report by Jon Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

"The seizures could take place even before a person and even if the person didn't know they were taking or digging up a 'paleontological resource," writes Berlau. "And the bill specifically allows the 'transfer of seized resources' to 'federal or non-federal' institutions, giving the government and some private actors great incentive to egg on the takings."

Tracie Bennitt, president of the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences, is protesting the bill's vague language and severe penalties.

"We can visualize now a group of students unknowingly crossing over an invisible line and ending up handcuffed and prosecuted," she wrote to members of Congress.

Subtitle D of the bill called the "Paleontological Resources Preservation Act" would make it illegal to "excavate, remove, damage, or otherwise alter or deface or attempt to excavate, remove, damage, or otherwise alter or deface any paleontological resources located on Federal land" without special permission from the government.

"Paleontological resource" is defined in the bill as "any fossilized remains, traces, or imprints of organisms, preserved in or on the earth's crust, that are of paleontological interest and that provide information about the history of life on earth." Penalties for violations include up to five years in jail.

Berlau believes picking up rocks could be interpreted as a violation of the law since most would fit the broad definition under the law.

The forfeiture provision is effective before a trial and conviction, making the defendant guilty until proven innocent, Berlau suggests.

Berlau believes the House will take up a vote on the bill this week. He is urging Americans to contact representatives before the bill, known both as S. 22 and the "Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009" is approved, as expected, and heads to the White House for President Obama's signature.

Note: During the cooler months. There will probably be some club members at the Gold Basin claims, Meadview claims or 20 acre property on any given day. Stop in and visit or bring your tent.

Note: Any member who is going out for a day or weekend and would like to invite the rest of us to come along. Contact the webmaster and have the date posted.