And if they see that it is being used and you have your gear inside, they will burn it to the ground gear and all when you are at the store. I had a friend who had a cabin he lived in on fs land and he was a cattle farmer. The fs waited until he was gone and came in and did this on purpose as they were burning peoples homes all over back in the mid 60's. Well old Barney was 6'7" and had hands twice as wide as any other man I have ever met and he just happened to actually be Joe Lewis's sparring partner when he was younger. He went into the fs office, found his agent and started beating him to death with his bare hands. All of the other agents came in and joined into the fight and Barney fought and boxed them all and beat many of them unconscious. In the end Barney was arrested and put away for a short time, but he had lost everything when they burned his home high in the Sierra's to the ground. He was a proud man and someone that I admire to this day. He was like a grandfather to me and taught me many things including how to ride a horse and run cattle when I was a kid.The Forest Service can come in and remove it at any time should they decide they want to.
Gates, locks, and preventing access to "your" claim might require a POO, or at the very least a NOI. It all depends on who your local land manager is. Never hurts to ask. Otherwise you may find your locks cut and a letter in your mailbox from the FS asking why your denying use of FS land surface rights.Now my question is, can I repair the gate and put my own lock on it, there is another lock on and I can repair it in a way that preserves the use of the old lock plus have my lock work too. Thanks Ed
Here is a pic of the gate, you see at least 2 maybe 3 locks on the chain holding the cable gate, my intentions are just to cut a link out of the chain and add my own lock to it, all other locks will still work to unlock the gate, who ever owns those locks will still have access, know one is being denied access, just do not want to park my car on the side of a one lane road or carry all my stuff down the hill<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1124455"/>
I had an older gentleman once trying to tell me that there was a spot of Forest Service land available for claiming that had an old cabin on it, he was strongly under the impression that he could claim the land and thus have some kind of ownership of the cabin as it was a pre-existing structure part of an earlier claim. He wanted to fix it up and be able to use it. I kind of raised an eyebrow when he was telling me all of this, because when you file a claim the only thing you're filing for is the mineral rights, you don't get any kind of surface rights whether there's an old structure there or not. I'm no expert on mining claims by any means, but the only exception that I could maybe understand would be if it's a patented claim, but if I'm not mistaken no mineral claims have been allowed to be patented since the early 1990's.