The court affirmed convictions after a second trial and identified National Forest and privately owned mining-claim land, wetlands, and a tributary to Cataract Creek. This contradicts “only ponds on his own ground.”
Joseph David Robertson excavated and constructed a series of ponds on National Forest System Lands and on the privately owned Manhattan Lode mining claim.
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The court affirmed convictions after a second trial and identified National Forest and privately owned mining-claim land, wetlands, and a tributary to Cataract Creek. This contradicts “only ponds on his own ground.”