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Public Lands for the People Inc. 501 ©-(3) non-profit organization Tax ID# 95-4521318 Urgent Request for Donations Dear Equipment Dealers, Customers, Fellow Prospectors, Miners, Prospecting and Mining Clubs, and Organizations: While we realize that our Nation is facing difficult economic times and each of us has to tighten our belts, Public Lands for the People Inc. (PLP) and all of their supporters are asking all of you out there to read this letter and consider things carefully. Your donations, no matter how big or small, do not just affect our immediate future and dredging plans, but the future for our children and their rights to mine and dredge in California and around the country. Please read on and learn why your contributed dollars matter. There are 3 new lawsuits and a Congressional Bill (HR 699) that are being directed at small-scale miners, claim owners and especially suction dredge miners. Along with these lawsuits, the Bill, and the new Mining Law Reform Act, PLP is still in two ongoing lawsuits to protect your rights. Whether it is your mining business, or mining itself, everyone will be affected. The two lawsuits that PLP is currently involved in are as follows: The Karuk Tribe vs. California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) The decision in this lawsuit was for the DFG to complete an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) before making new regulations on suction dredging. The DFG has failed to comply with the Court Ordered EIR and the Karuk Tribe has informed us that they intend to come back into the court and file a new complaint against the DFG for contempt of the Court Order. The PLP and the New-49ers have prevailed in this lawsuit, preventing past closures of the rivers and must remain diligent in this case to assure that the DFG represents the miners’ best interest. Siskiyou Regional Education Project (SREP) vs. United States Forest Service (USFS) SREP sued the USFS to require a Plan of Operation for all suction dredge mining. PLP, Waldo Mining, and Bob and Lisa Barton prevailed in the District Court and SREP appealed to the 9th Circuit Court. PLP, Waldo and the Barton’s are still in the lawsuit, have made arguments to the 9th Circuit Court, and are awaiting a decision. Most of you know the USFS is closing thousands of miles of roads in all of the Western forests. Eldorado National Forest was the first to complete their Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and their Record of Decision (ROD). PLP has been working on this complaint to sue Eldorado National Forest to prevent their road closures and help set precedent against closing roads in other forests. This lawsuit is ready to be filed but funds are desperately needed. It will not help to win the dredging cases if the roads are closed and prospectors cannot access their claims. Leif Hillman of the Karuk Tribe and his cronies on February 5, 2009, filed another lawsuit against the California DFG for violations of State laws, asking for an injunction against the DFG to stop issuing suction dredge permits in the state of California. Someone must intervene in this case to stop the DFG from eliminating the rights of the suction dredge community. If PLP can receive adequate funding, we can intervene in the lawsuit and stop the DFG from a settlement, which would devastate the miners in California and could lead to other states imposing similar regulations in other western states. The Karuk Tribe, Hillman, Sierra Fund, Cal Trout and the Friends of the North Fork have threatened at least 3 more lawsuits in the near future. PLP and any others who attempt to intervene to protect the miners’ rights will need funding. The bottom line is that our attorneys cannot take on a battle of this magnitude unless we can get more money in the legal fund. Environmental and fishing organizations also filed suit against the California State Water Board over what they allege is a failure to put enforceable water quality standards in place to protect northwestern coastal rivers and aquatic life. It appears the Water Board is citing mining and dredging as key threats in these at risk areas. These organizations filing suit in San Francisco Superior Court include the Sierra Club, the Environmental Protection Information Center, and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, against the State Water Resources Control Board and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. They have violated State Law by allowing delays in enforcing water quality standards. These special interest groups are using any excuse to create new regulations without any consideration for the dredging community. As a matter of fact, during extensive operational testing, Keene suction gold dredges removed over 98% of stream contaminants and pollutants. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was sued in the 1990’s for not protecting North Coast streams, and ended up agreeing to set pollution limits, called Total Maximum Daily Loads, or TMDLs, or just plain turbidity. The State is required under California law to craft plans to implement those measures. Of some 33 TMDLs, the North Coast board has only completed four. The state of Oregon miners are in a lawsuit over this very issue with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. This lawsuit needs the attention of all California miners and organizations such as PLP. PLP would like to do all it can to lend its support in this lawsuit and any other litigation that might be instrumental in preventing the California Water Quality Control Board from restricting not only the rights of the suction dredgers, but also the rights of all small-scale miners that utilize water. Washington miners are in a position to enter into a lawsuit to protect their ability to suction dredge rivers in the prime months. The State of Washington is restricting their dredge season to winter months when Mother Nature is uncooperative. PLP, along with others, have been working with the Washington Resources Coalition for several years to assist them in their battle. PLP also believes that the best avenue of attack is to go into Federal Court filing suit against the State of California to enjoin (stop) the state from prohibiting any mining at all. This is especially so for suction dredge mining on a mining claim under the protection of the 1866 and 1872 Federal Mining Law. This law states the claim owner also owns the minerals on that claim. To prohibit the miner from taking his minerals is also a violation of property rights under the 5th Amendment of the Constitution, taking without compensation, and violation of the right of due process under the 14th amendment of the Constitution. Another thorn in the side of the mining community is this year’s version of HR 699, the revised proposed mining law repeal that passed the House of Representatives last year. It is back and worse than ever. If HR 699 is passed through the Senate and signed into Law, it will remove the RIGHT to mine and make it a privilege. You can review this bill in the PLP Forum at www.plp2.org. Please take the time to look at it. This letter is a plea to all miners, prospectors, equipment dealers, prospecting and mining clubs and organization to jump on board with your support in these and other up and coming battles and lawsuits at the most crucial time in history. If you are not supporting PLP or some other organization that is in this fight then you will surely end up with the loss of your right to prospect and mine and lose your property rights. PLP has been around for 19 years and has been involved in all kinds of cases that have been won by the mining community. To name a few—U.S. vs. Lex; U.S. vs. McClure; U.S. vs. Eno; US vs. Pearson; SREP vs. U.S.F.S.; the recent U.S vs. Hicks case and many others. PLP and the mining community can continue to win these pending cases as well, but only with your help. Some of our main supporters include Keene Engineering, Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA) and several of their chapters, ICMJ’s Prospecting and Mining Journal, Proline Dredges, Whites Electronics, Pioneer-Motherlode Mining Supply, Bill Mesa of Western Mining, Valley Prospectors, Orange County 49ers, West End Prospectors and many others too numerous to name but no less important. Folks, it is still not enough if we want to continue to protect our rights to prospect and mine. Please take a minute out of your life and a dollar out of your pocket, and encourage others to do the same. We can’t win if we don’t fight back. Donations can be made by going to the PLP website, www.plp2.org. There is opportunity to donate with a credit card and PayPal on the bottom left of the front page. You can also send contributions or just fill out the membership application and send it to: PLP c/o Barry Wetherby 3700 Santa Carlotta St., La Crescenta, Ca. 91214-1048 Or call with any questions: Jerry Hobbs (909) 889-3039. Thank You All for Your Support. Jerry Hobbs and PLP Board PUBLIC LANDS FOR THE PEOPLE, INC. 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How many of You are planning to come to this outing ?? The World’s Largest “FREE†Metal Detecting Hunt. ~ Saturday June 7th between 9 AM to 12 Noon with the Rally from June 6 to the 8th of June, 2008. You and your family are invited to a fun-filled long weekend in Southern Colorado at the Pine River RV Park in Bayfield, Colorado. Enjoy and learn Metal Detecting, Dredging, Panning, Coin Hunting, Nugget Shooting, Water Hunting, & Gold Prospecting and more. Over 25 new metal detectors, several 25oz silver bars, and $20,000.00 in prizes will be awarded at this hunt ~ Rally. This is the largest free hunt in the World. A large number of Manufactures’ and distributors will have booths at the Rally and you can purchase anything related to this wonderful hobby. Dealer and vender areas will be on site and if and you need one please contact WWATS before the start of the Rally. What makes and has made the WWATS Rally’s a success is your generous donations of prizes and/or coins. We need your help with prizes and it does not have to relate to the hobby. The more coins we have the more the hunts will be for the participates in the hunts. Coins that will be buried are foreign, wheat, silver, clad, buffalos, & others. By donating to this event, your name will be listed along with your donation on a chart for all to see and you will be a major part of assuring all participates in this wonderful and successful weekend Rally. The registration fees will cover expenses like insurance and sanitation and the rest will come back to you in silver and large value prizes for the hunt. Pre-register for this event by getting a form from http://www.wwats.org. A donation of $15.00 for the pre-registration is requested. After June 1, 2008 the event registration is $25.00. Pre-register for the paid silver hunt and save. The Paid Hunt registration will go up in price after June 1, 2008. Pre-registration help us prurchase silver coins for the hunt. Not a member, Join WWATS Now at our website. Colorado contact and main wwats contact information is at our website. Jim Fariello VP WWATS

Below is the 2008 WWAT Rally & Hunt Flyer which will be held outside Bayfield, Colorado this year so to give hundreds more folks the chance to enjoy the two and a half days for FREE open hunts with their entire family. We have hunts for every age group and all the family will find the weekend of great hunts full of prizes and coins to win. This event is open to the public and it is not neccessary that you be a member of WWATS, but we hope you will consider it once you understand our goals to keep public lands open to our hobbies. There will be some 250 to 300 prizes to give away and even my wife (a national known jewelry maker) has donate some $10,000. worth of fine jemstone jewelry to the event and "Ladies Hunt" on Sunday. Also on Sunday will be the ONLY pay type hunt which will contain ONLY Silver coins and prizes will ONLY be Gold, Silver, and Metal Detectors. This hunt is a pay hunt because many requested it because of the prizes and silver coins buried. All hunts will contain some silver coins, along with other mixed coinage and many more metal detectors and greart prizes will be given in other hunts as well. This year there is a "Pre-registration Fee" of $15.00 per person except for kids 12 years and younger, to help pay for all the paperwork, name badges and to assure enough coins to plant to make a great weekend of hunts for you. IT IS A MUST that you fill out your entry form below and get it to us before June 1st., for after that date we will be in route to Colorado and we would not have time to purchase more coinage to hide for you. After June 1st. the "pre-registration fee" will go up to $25.00 per person. Same is true with those wanting to enter the "WWATS Pay Hunt Silver Hunt" on Sunday, if your a WWATS Member cost is $55.00 for this Hunt, if not cost is $65.00 until May 31st and it goes up to $70.00, so hurry and get your entry filled out and to us as soon as possible along with payment. This will allow us enough time to purchase the silver coins and detectors for prizes in this one hunt. So if you are a WWATS member (membership is free for three years at: www.wwats.org) and you wish to enter both the Sunday Pay Silver Hunt and all the free hunts for the weekend it will cost you the $55.00 entry for the Pay Silver Hunt and the $15.00 pre-registration fee which is a total of $70.00 to cover all hunts if recieved before the date of May 31st. If you wait till that weekend to pay for all hunts and your not a member it will cost you $70.00 for the Pay Silver Hunt and Pre-Registration will go up to $25.00 per person which is a total of $95.00. If you only want to participate in the free hunts, you only pay the Pre-Registration fee only and mail it in with your entry form shown below before May 31st. SO DON'T WAIT, get your entry and payment in now!!! Again this year we ask you to please consider donations to this event, prizes do not have to be related to our hobby and coins we can use as prizes or bury. The only way such FREE hunts can exist is that the contestants and others give towards making the event an great success for everyone. So please consider giving! Those giving nice prizes will also be entered in a drawing for a gold coin or two to be given away Sunday at the event, need not be present to win. Both individual and club donations are welcome. Thank You!! Look for a number of suprizes in the hunts, a super and exciting GPS Hunt, representatives for the Colorado Chapters of the GPAA to instruct you and demo some of the latest propecting equipment today, great Campfire Gathering Saturday night and much more. Get your reservations in now at the Pine Riverside RV Park for camping or speak to them as for the best motels in the area. It's going to be an event-of-the-year and you don't want to miss it......... Keith Wills, president 2008 WWATS RALLY & FREE HUNTS June 6th – 8th 2008 Pine Riverside RV Park—Bayfield, Colorado (Just West of Durango, CO.) (Camping/Primitive/all size campers/some full hook-ups.) http://www.coloradodirectory.com/riversidervpark/ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC World’s Largest “FREE†Metal Detecting Hunt. Saturday June 7th between 9 AM to 12 Noon You and your family are invited to a fun-filled long weekend. Enjoy and Learn Metal Detecting, Dredging, Panning, Coin Hunting, Nugget Shooting, Water Hunting, & Gold Prospecting. Over 20 detectors and many more prizes. Large Manufactures and Dealers vending area. Join WWATS Now! www.wwats.org “We Can and Will Make A Difference†(You do not need to be a member of WWATS to participate in this event) *What makes this event a success is your generous donations of prizes and/or coins. **We need prizes (does not have to relate to the hobby) and coins to bury (foreign, wheat, silver, clad, buffalos, & etc.) By donating to this event, your name will be listed along with your donation on a chart for all to see and you will be a major part of assuring all participates a wonderful and successful weekend.** Weekend Pre-Registration Fee for all FREE Hunts (except Sunday all-silver pay hunt) is $15.00 per person/$25.00 after June 1st. (No charge for kids under the age of 12 years). WWATS Rally & Hunt c/o Keith Wills 1495 FM 49 Gilmer TX 75644 “WWATS focus is to keep our public lands open for recreational use for all Americans to enjoy.†Please attend our RALLY and see what you can do to help! Directions On the Pine River just east of Bayfield on Hwy 160, 20 minutes from Durango. Address is: Pine Riverside RV Park -- 41743 Highway 160, PO Box 919, Bayfield, Colorado 81122; 888-884-2475; 970-884-2475; fax 970-884-6163. Motels: Siesta Motel 877-314-0741; Quality Inn 800-532-7112; Iron Horse Inn 800-748-2990 (All motels are in Durango) Schedule of Events for WWATS Weekend Friday June 6th 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Campground Cookout (bring a dish—please!) Night 30…………. FREE Night Hunt-starts at dark (tokens for prizes) Saturday June 7th 9:00 AM…………. Start Big Fish Contest & FREE GPS Clue Hunt 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Famous WWATS Open FREE Hunt (tokens for prizes) 12:45 PM to 2:30 PM WWATS Rally—Discussion on our Hobby and its future. 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Speed-O-Hunt (requires a quarter per play as many times as you want, super fun, gold coins buried) 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM FREE Garrett Detector Hunt (Garrett Items & Detectors) 7:00 PM…………. Campfire Gathering (bring a chair, your tall tales, bring your instrument for some picking and grinning) Sunday June 8th 7:30 AM to 8:15 AM Early Prayer Meeting 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM FREE Kids Hunt (ages under 14 years) 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Ladies FREE Hunt (some great surprises in this) 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM WWATS Open Pay Silver Hunt (entry fee required) 2:15 PM …………. Awards Prizes & Winners of Big Fish Contest & GPS Hunt Pre-Registration Form Name/s _______________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________ City ___________________State________________Zip _________ Phone # ____________________Email:______________________ I am a member of WWATS Yes_____ No _______ Pre-Registration Fee--$15.00 per person Yes _________ I wish to enter the “All Silver Pay Hunt†Sunday: Yes_________ (All silver coins buried and only gold, silver and detectors for token prizes) (Total fee for the Pay Silver Hunt Entry $65 per person thru May 31st; $70 after May 1st, 2008) (Silver Hunt Fee for WWATS Members is a $10.00 discount-$55.00 per person thru May31st)* By my signature below, I relieve the World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers and the property owner, all of their employees, associates, club officers and hunt officials of any and all claims, accidents, thefts or injuries that may occur while participation in any event or function associated with the World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers Rally and/or hunt. I agree at all times to abide by all rules as set forth by the World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers Rally/Hunt and property owner. Held Rain or Shine--No Refunds. Hunt Master’s decisions are final. Signature:________________________________________ Date: ___________ Signature:________________________________________ Date:____________ Make Checks or Money orders payable for Rally/Hunt or DONATION to: Keith Wills /WWATS For Questions Contact: Keith Wills 1495 FM 49 Email: [email protected] Gilmer, Texas 75644 Phone # (903) 734-7773 State Director of Colorado 2003-2007 Chapter President Durango Colorado(Durango Diggers) Directors & Chapter Officers outing Rendezvous Committee www.Prospectingchannel.com

If You have never been to a Gold Show this is the one !!! In Farmington New Mexico March 15-16 10am-5 pm At McGee park Convention center 49000 square feet of Gold mining equipment from all over the country. The largest Gold show in the 4 corners area maybe the country . Everything RTV’s, dredges, gold nuggets, trommels, metal detectors, etc. Seminars daily about all topics how to find gold and what to look for ,metal detectors, joining a Chapter in Your area , Alaska , mother lode and LDMA . Come meet the Key people in the GPAA, LDMA. Saturday and Sunday at 4 pm there will get a grand prize drawing with one of them a paid trip to ALASKA!! And Many other prizes to be given out . But You must stick around to win !!! There will be many things to do and learn so come out to the show ! The Durango Chapter along with Many Chapters from around the country. Will have a Chapters island for any Chapter wanting space Please contact Nancy at the office 1-800-551-9707 ext. 123 or e-mail [email protected] to make space for Your Chapter. You need 1-2 people min. coming from a Chapter to Participate. We will help every Chapter shows up with your Chapter info. Lets get the word out about Your Chapters!! Remember every Chapter that shows up and helps at the show the GPAA will give You Chapter credits which is good for all GPAA merchandise . There will be a concession stand with the Best Food & lowest Prices ever seen at ANY gold show. Run by the Durango Chapter. The Durango Chapter will have a Kids corner geared towards kids 12 and under with some neat prizes ALL FOR FREE!! A kids mucking & panning contest with prizes to be given away!! Mucking & Panning contest both days for all over 12 We hope to see all that can make it and Stop by the Chapters island. Make a copy of the form below and give it to a kid to win. Free drawing for all under 12 need not be present!! 2008 GPAA gold &Treasure show McGee Park Convention center Farmington N/M March 15-16 2008 Sat. & Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults $5.OO Kids under 12 FREE We will have a Kids corner with activities and all is FREE and some neat prizes to take home. Come meet Gold Prospectors from all over the United States !! Attend the free seminars throughout the day about prospecting !! School _______________________Grade ___________ Name _____________________ Phone ____________________ Bring this flyer for a FREE drawing at the Durango Chapter booth you do not have to be present to win!!! for all kids under 12 Print this out and enter

Stop By the booth at the show in Phx. Rich Hill, Arizona. DVD is an Extended Version with Bonus Segments including other people showing off Nuggets found during the Push Event! DVD $11.95 Ask about the show package deal Meet Joey Wilson, NuggetBrain, Panner Paul,And Tim with SnappyGrip Also Stop By the 24 Karat Gold Hunter booth for more information about the Club. Elly will be talking about the progress and what is new coming up.

The show was about dry washing and the basic ways to drywash !! Was not about the gold as much as the ways to recover the gold !! And what to expect your first time out . Besides the beepers don't always go home with gold every time out !

A new episode of Adventures in Prospecting is now playing! Meet Rob Mays; a coin detectorist who goes nugget hunting for the first time with the 24K Gold Hunters in Arizona. Members found a nice nugget while we were filming. Also meet the man behind the name "Nugget Brain" as he goes with Panner Paul desert drywashing adventure for gold. Dig what you watch. Prospecting Channel http://www.prospectingchannel.com/indexPC.html

In Responds to all that have posted on this. GPAA had contacted Elly about 2 hours before the time the Outdoor channel film crew was on the way to the claims and asked if it would be possible for the State Directors and Office Elected Board Members could come up during the filming. They stayed only 2 - 2.5 hours while filming and had a GREAT time!! They only stayed on push #2. Just think How lucky You all are to have the Outdoor channel come out to the 24 Karat claims and made a show about a Great club and all they do for You. Tell me any other club that has been on the Outdoor channel. You all should feel proud to call Yourselves 24 Karat Members!! And as far as The ones who talked about the Clown that is a 24 Karat member Just having fun. Remember this Club and any other Club members are to have fun and if You don't want to have FUN stay home. And on the behalf of the GPAA , Outdoor Channel and The Rendezvous Committee Chairman Thank You Elly for the opportunity to come to Your claims!