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Nuggetshooting Eluvial Placers in the Western United States
August 2000 by Jim Straight

Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Making your vote count
• CCI proposal omitted from interior budget
Buyer Beware! Counterfeit Metal Detectors
When I was recently in West Africa, I got to see and play with my first, phony, Chinese knock-off metal detector.
Legislative And Regulatory Update
• Polar bear listed
• Forest Service trying to close off access
Prairie Creek Project Approaches Final Hurdle

Because I Said So
Like all federal judges, he swore an oath to perform his duties “impartially… under the Constitution and laws of the U.S.” Nothing in those documents gives Judge Morris authority to order the BLM to work with non-government organizations (the same ones that filed the lawsuit in question) to alter America’s use of energy.
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