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Public Lands: Who Owns the West?

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Growth In Mining Claims Stirs Debate

The Union Democrat

LA Times: Mining Claims Near Wilderness Areas In State Seen As Threat

The Los Angeles Times
"If just a handful of these thousands of claims already staked turn into major mines, it could have devastating impacts on California's national treasures," said Dusty Horwitt, public lands analyst at the Environmental Working Group. Read the LA Times story. (Registration required)

The Coloradoan: Hard-Rock Mining Boom Compels Reform

Gross royalties, bonding and public oversight should be implemented
The Coloradoan

Mining Threatens Parks

The Register-Guard (Eugene, Or)

National park spruce-up

Scripps News

Mine Claims Run Amok; Time to Reform 1872 Law

Santa Fee New Mexican

Mining Our Treasures

An 1872 Law Paves the Way for a Rush of Claims in the West
Washington Post
An 1872 law paves the way for a rush of uranium mining claims on western public lands

Miners Stake Claims To Land Near Parks

Contra Costa Times