See Also
Essential Books
& Publications
The Asbestos Racket: An Environmental
Parable
Michael J. Bennett
Free Enterprise Press
Bellevue, Washington.
Additional Resources
National Association of Mining Districts
508 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 2003
Don Fife
Box 1054
Tustin, CA 92781
(714) 544-8406
E-mail: donfife@earthlink.com
Washington Prospectors Mining Association
publishes the bi-monthly Washington Prospectors Newsletter
News about small scale miners and their sagas dealing with today’s
bureaucratic excesses, as well as history of prospecting.
Washington Prospectors
Mining Association
10002 Aurora Ave. N #36
Seattle WA 98133-9334
email: secretary@washingprospectors.org
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In-Depth Information
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- “Locoweed
Closes 48,000 Acres of Alogones Dunes Off-Highway Vehicle Park”-By
Don Fife (Feb. 2002)
The Bureau of Land Management is acquiescing to an environmental
lawsuit to use a noxious weed, “Pierson’s
milkvetch” or Astralagus magdalenae variety perirsonii,
to close 48,000 acres of America’s premier off-highway
vehicle park at Glamis Sand Dunes, Imperial County, California.
Commonly known as Pierson’s locoweed, a poisonous
noxious weed, it is normally against state and county laws to
propagate on one’s property.
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- “Endangered
Species Act is racketeering” — Don Fife (Guest
Commentary, The Leader, Lucerne Valley, California,
February 6, 2002)
The Bureau of Land Management is trying to shut down Dave
Fisher’s family ranch, saying that the cattle compete
with the desert tortoise for food, but the truth is that “the
greatest threat to the tortoise is the incompetence of the BLM
biologists.”
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- “USDA Recognizes
Limestone Filler-Extenders as Saving Millions of Barrels of Oil”-by
Don Fife (National Association of Mining Districts, February
2, 2002)
Limestone makes up 50 percent of all vehicle tires, replacing
millions of barrels of crude oil that would otherwise need to
be imported for the production of rubber. President Bush directed
federal agencies to expedite energy-related projects, including
production of minerals and filler extenders such as high-grade
limestone on National Forest Lands.
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- “Environmental
Hysteria Can Kill”-By Don Fife (National Association
of Mining Districts, January 2002)
California’s State Element is gold and the State
Rock is serpentine, the major source of asbestos. Asbestos hysteria
has cost the taxpayers billions of dollars for unnecessary school
asbestos removal and caused the loss of the Challenger astronauts.
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- “Regarding
Canadian Lynx and ESA” — U.S. Representative Richard
W. Pombo (Congressional Record, January 24, 2002, page E-27)
Congressman Pombo points out that endangered plants were secretly
placed on Donald Fife’s property in “an
attempt to close about 30,000 acres of the highest mineral valued
land in southern
California.”
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- “Law Gone Loco”-By
Don Fife (National Association of Mining Districts, 2001)
In the hands of environmental extremists and elitist bureaucrats,
the well-intentioned Endangered Species Act has gone loco.
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- “BLM’s
way of Protecting the Tortoise”-By Don Fife (2001)
The BLM is trying to shut down Dave Fisher’s ranch
under the guise that the cattle compete with the tortoise for
food, but the greatest threat to the tortoise is the incompetence
of the BLM wildlife biologists.
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- “Instant Wilderness:
When a Road is not a Road”-By Don Fife (National Association
of Mining Districts, 2000)
The Clinton-Gore Administration is proposing closure of 400,000
miles of back country roads on 60 million acres of National Forest
lands.
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