United States v. Hall

ORDER

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS, United States Magistrate.

As the value of our National Forests becomes ever more evident with the passing years, the disputes regarding proper usage of those Forests becomes ever more frequent. This criminal case is one of those encounters between a holder of an unpatented mining claim, who believes that he is performing a valuable service in extracting precious metals, and the managing agency of the Tahoe National Forest, which increasingly views the miners as persons who are out to carve a piece of the public domain for themselves to the exclusion of all others. For…