PROSPECTING TALES: FOREST SERVICE, FIRES AND BEARS-OH MY!

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My wife Peggy and I retired in 2009, just about the same time the moratorium on dredging came into effect in California. We had been thinking about gold prospecting for a year or so before we retired. I thought, "Just my luck-I retire and then they outlaw dredging." Please don't get me started on the lame excuses that the extreme environmentalists give to get us out of the rivers. They haven't made one good argument yet and everyone knows it. I want to leave our land clean and undamaged for future generations, but I'm a generation, too. Like I said before, please don't get me started. The moratorium didn't stop us from prospecting. We have learned a lot, met a lot of great people, got a lot of exercise, and even found a little gold. We love it.