Kosanke v. United States Department of the Interior

EDWARDS, Chief Judge:. Appellants are two individuals who allegedly staked mining claims on federal lands and two other individuals to whom they assigned an interest in these claims. The Department of the Interior’s (“DOI”) Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) declared Appellants’ mining claims void ab initio, on the grounds that the land in question had been closed to mining entries pursuant to two separate DOI actions segregating the land from the operation of mining law, both of which had been duly noted on the appropriate public land records. The Interior Board of Land Appeals affirmed this…