To Mr. Dog, thank you for providing this site to exchange information, tales and facilitate discussion. I wish you the best in your present and future endeavors.
To those how have contributed or whomever may care, thank you for your threads, photos and comments. Their influence on me has ranged from informational to entertaining to therapeutic.
To those who take over, welcome and I wish you the best in your future endeavors too. My second wish is you don't screw with the functionality of the the site. Of all the various sites I visit both personally and professionally this one is by far the easiest to use.
Aaron-really enjoyed this site, it really helped me in my "adventuring" around the west! Mining history can be interesting, it seemed like almost every isolated track of BLM land used to have an old mining claim and a story, enjoy your wanderings and adventures! I guess you have checked out the BLM Class I Historic Overviews, each and every BLM District has to have them written up as background data for making better management decisions, each state office usually has a list of studies and reports-if i remember right, Colorado, Alaska, Nevada and California had lots of good data and are good sources for future adventures.
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