Posted on 07/13/2013 5:58:55 AM PDT by george76
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — The U.S. Forest Service is starting demolition work on one of the earliest mining communities on the west side of the Continental Divide.
The Lincoln Townsite is an abandoned mining community east of Breckenridge in White River National Forest. The 1860s community was never platted or incorporated, but it existed through four minor booms and busts over the course of 50 years.
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Wasn’t that community built by mainly “white” people? It has to go.
I visited this little community back 1960s.
If it had been a black town it would be bronzed and made into a national landmark.
The reason the Forest Service is doing this is...?
If it’s abandoned and not maintained, then eventually somebody is going to have an old building collapse on him and go looking for somebody to sue. It’s a fact of life of the current society.
The shafts and tunnels were sealed many decades ago, or so I was told.
Mining = bad
Re-mine-ders = must destroy
The ENTIRE western states are dotted with small mining towns & sites of various mining adventures.
California & Nevada have enough of them that there is actually a fairly thick book called Ghost Towns of.....
IF all of those historic sites are going to be razed-—they are actually rewriting history.
In Calif, historic sites are costly and revered. Are they going to destroy where Sutter discovered gold along the South Fork of the American River? How about all the old military forts? Fort Laramie in Wyoming is one of the most interesting I have ever seen. Calif has their share of such old military sites, also.
Who exactly is running the Forest Service, anyway? Who is making these decisions.
Doesn’t Congress or the individual state have any say in the matter???
For years the Forest Service has been running amuck. They are demanding outrageous fees from anyone trying to use any location within Forest boundaries for permits & other ‘fees’ & ‘reviews’.
One Forest Service green beanie tried to extort a fee of over $8000 just to ‘review’ an application for a permit to put on a horse ride which had been held for over 30 years on the same trails from the same base camp. The prior fees had been in the $150 range. Such ‘review’ didn’t guarantee approval of this permit.
How disgusting does this administration have to behave before they trip the start of CW II???
If it furthers Agenda 21 it is exempt!
The USFS must have too much money and too many UN Agenda 21 liberals.
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If you’re thinking of Nicodemus KS, I’ve been there. There are still people living there. Interesting place. Middle of nowhere.
>>The reason the Forest Service is doing this is...?
“Those who control the past control the future. Those who control the present control the past”
—George Orwell
In the Obamunist NewSpeak guide to history, Colorado will have been settled by a lost tribe of Egyptian nomads, err wait, no that’s Mormonism... the other Islam.
The Forest Service is like the evil older brother of the National Park Service. The Park Service, while obviously not as pure as the driven snow, does some good work in preserving our sacred places such as Minuteman in Lexington and Concord, Gettysburg, etc. As far as I can tell, the Forest Service does nothing except grab vast swathes of privately-owned, potentially-productive land and forests and sits on it.
In all fairness, parts of this is a very good idea, because abandoned mining sites are sometimes almost the definition of deadly hazardous.
In Arizona alone, there are an estimated 100,000 abandoned mines, according to the state mine inspector’s office. Most of these present little risk, but some are death traps, both obvious and concealed. There are maybe half a million abandoned mines in the western US.
Even on the surface, vertical shaft mines were often just boarded over. Then over time a thick layer of dust and even plants settles over the boards, which rot. It will look just like normal ground until you step on it, then maybe fall a hundred feet straight down.
Horizontal shaft mines are no better, because of the danger of rockfalls and rotten support beams, poisonous gases, unstable flooring, nitroglycerine crystals leaked from old dynamite, extremely toxic chemicals, animals and insects, unexpected water, and just bashing your head on overhead rocks.
Mines also obey the sandhog’s rule, that “Caves not built by nature, nature seeks to destroy”. Even professional miners will only enter an abandoned mine very slowly and carefully, like entering a minefield.
Finally, mines, either shaft or open pit, often have enormous amounts of toxic surface contamination.
These are the kind of places where some could go Galt. There’s already shelter, firewood and old buildings of trimmed lumber available.
Do not believe the Denver Post and their AGW * War on Coal * agenda.
Man made .. “Global warming is one of the defining challenges of our time, and how we handle the issue will have profound implications for the planet we leave our children,” Udall said in a statement.
At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday, a leader with an environmental group that Udall’s wife Maggie Fox runs received an award at a White House ceremony. Dr. Susan Pacheco, a member of the leadership corps of the Climate Reality Project, of which Fox is the chief executive officer, was feted as a “Champion of Change.”
In this case, that of old mine pollution, they are not exaggerating. There are some parts of the US that are so contaminated that they are uninhabitable.
The Church Rock uranium mill spill (1976) was the worst nuclear accident in US history, when a tailings pond dam broke, pouring a huge amount of heavily contaminated water into a New Mexican river. They still have water warnings on the radio in Gallup at frequent intervals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill
Gilman, Colorado was ordered abandoned by the EPA, because of contaminated groundwater and 8 million tons of mine waste.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman,_Colorado
Then there is the now ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
So, where are they getting all this money to hire the bulldozers and crews?
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