Popular Post Clay Diggins Posted October 7, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 7, 2017 The 10 million acre Sagebrush chicken withdrawal is no more! The withdrawal has been withdrawn. BLM cancels 10 million acre Sagebrush Focal Area Withdrawal Proposal Read that and then go beeping. 10 million acres is gonna take you a few weekends to detect so get started early. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I know of at least one guy who has successfully beeped some very nice gold within that area. Its good news to hear and as the new BLM appointee said " The proposal to withdraw 10 million acres to prevent potential mineral development was a complete overreach". I have a copy of a BLM report on the study used to justify the withdrawal and even in a report generated by Obama era BLM appointees, the data shows that roughly 90% of the 10 million areas had little or no potential as Sage Grouse nesting ground. Before that they had concluded that the Sage Grouse did not qualify for protection as an endangered species. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Is there a map of the area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Diggins Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 Here's the map I made Mitchel. It originally had the withdrawn area (6 States) but the BLM took down the data stream when it got some attention on the Hill a few months ago. The claims that were affected are still on that map - Land Matters created that claims map by hand. There were 6,997 ACTIVE Mining Claims in the withdrawal area. Nevada was the most affected with 5,872 Mining Claims. I contacted the BLM when they proposed the withdrawal asking for the data files to create the map. More than two years later and I still haven't had a response. That's why we had to rely on their data stream to display the withdrawn area. We try to host all our map data on the Land Matters servers but the government isn't always good at sharing the things they are required by law to share. Go figure. Click on the Link at the top of the map to see the report Land Matters made on the effect on mining claims from the withdrawal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Here is a link to a map of the area that was withdrawn - https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/Proposed_Action_Withdrawal_Map_PubMeeting.pdf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hard Prospector Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Sure is nice to have "mining friendly" people running our government again........its been a while. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DolanDave Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Thanks for the info Clay, I am always glad to see lands coming back to us..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normmcq Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Elections do make differences! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Still a few smaller mineral closures enacted by fiat in the last days of the Obama administration. I hope they will ultimately meet the same fate as this one. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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