Help me out with Sumter National Forest regulations

[SlateBelter]

I’m looking into the Sumter National Forest management plan, there is a provision relating to gold panning, but it’s unclear to me what is allowed. Looking at old threads in this forum it seems like contacting the Long Cane district office and talking to those folks is the way to get a permit and explanation of what is allowed. I did call them, and the woman who answered simply said “No, gold panning isn’t allowed.” She didn’t have a place for me to go see a regulations stating that, and I can’t find it anywhere online, so I’m kind of stumped. Anyone have more recent information on this?

 

[M.E.G.]

This may help in understanding what is going on behind the scenes https://www.freedomadvocates.org/videos/taking-liberty-wildlands-project/

 

[russau]

Thank you M.E.G. for posting this info !