Endangered Spaces: Eastern Sierra
The Dirtbag Diaries
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The Importance of Mining in the Public Interest
The 1872 mining law determined that mining was the best and highest use of public lands. Today's mining laws don't have many built-in environmental protections, he says. "It's just I found some stuff up here, and now I have a right to take it out of the ground"
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