June 2025 Newsletrer

Welcome to our Summer edition…

We’ve heard many success stories of Reclamation Dredging and how much trash is being removed from the waterways in the western states. This is a very positive outcome for everyone who uses the creeks and rivers, especially the fish and wildlife who live there! Let’s give 3 cheers to reclamation dredgers! Please send photos of materials you’ve removed that don’t belong along America’s waterways. We’re thinking of making a collage of things PLP members have removed from waterways and riparian habitat that don’t belong there. Things like discarded camping gear, cans, bottles, plastic trash of every description, lead, mercury and other heavy metals. Let’s show the world that PLP Members clean it up and get it out! Send photos (no names or locations needed) to info@publiclandsforthepeople.org

A BIG SHOUT OUT TO Kris Jones for working so hard making PLP memes for the raffle and other social media help. We’re not all up to speed with new-fangled algorithms and such, but Kris has taken on the project to help in this area, promoting the Grand Raffle and PLP in General. Several others have stepped up and are sharing PLP content, helping to get the word out and sell raffle tickets. Miner Ma and Christa Latasa have been blowing up the internet with PLP stuff — Thank you ladies, you rock! And thank you’s are in order to folks like Judy Lepper, Greg Herring, Thomas Heflin who have taken a stack of tickets to sell during their travels.

Many thanks to Don Starr and Kris Jones for talking to business folks and others who support PLP, securing more raffle prizes to include in the 2025 Grand Raffle. We’ve now got a Riverdance gold jig!  It’s a unique black sand clean-up tool that gets that fine gold.

We also have new prizes from our friends in Downieville! The Carraige House Inn, Cold Rush Café and the Riverside Mountain Lodge have donated generous coupons (Like $300 off your stay!).  I had the best chocolate shake of my life after last year’s Downieville Gold Rush Days at the Cold Rush Cafe! Looking forward to the 2026 Downieville Gold Rush Days.

Public Lands for the People (PLP) is holding the 2025 Fallfest at Lost Dutchman Mining Association (LDMA) at Duisenberg, California with access to additional local mining claims included with your registration.
Get ready for an unforgettable adventure at the Annual PLP Fallfest Camp Out from October 9-12, 2025!

Location: Duisenburg Lost Dutchman Mining Association (LDMA) Campground

Event Fee: Only $75 for single, add $20 per person for family over 12 years old. 12 and under FREE, which includes Camping Fee for tent or RV camping for 3 nights!

Registration includes your new PLP membership or renewal. Online registration opens in August.  By signing up early, it helps us plan for our BBQ Potluck on Saturday night—don’t forget to bring a dish to share!

Highlights of upcoming Fallfest 2025:

• Friday Night Spaghetti Dinner: Join Peggy at the clubhouse for a hearty meal—only $10!
• Saturday and Sunday Breakfast and Lunch hosted by the Antelope Valley Gold Prospectors! $10 per meal, sign up in advance
• Saturday Night is the big PLP BBQ Potluck and Grand Raffle Drawing!
• Fiddling Farley: Enjoy live music around the campfire every night!
• Gold Prospecting: PLP and Peggy will provide some backhoe buckets full of gold dirt for dry washing. Want more? Purchase your own personal bucket for just $50! You can prospect on LDMA property plus there are several local mining claims that will be available for you to mine at. Bring your metal detectors and drywashers.

Exciting Tours: Explore the intriguing Owl Museum Cafe and the historic mining area around the town of Randsburg.
Informative Speakers & Classes: Learn from experts during our daily sessions at the clubhouse.
Kids’ Playground: Fun activities for the little ones! Scavenger Hunt and Metal Detecting just for the kiddos.
Adult Metal Detector Buffalo Hunt: Join the excitement for just $20! Dig up some silver and gold treasure including genuine buffalo nickels!

Bring your gently used mining gear for the PLP buy/sell/trade area. Vendors, please contact us if you want to set up at Fallfest.

PLP is working with main Stakeholders to overturn the Chuckwalla National Monument. We met again in early June and are hopeful that the lawsuit that has been filed to nullify the Chuckwalla will be successful. There is another movement making progress at the Federal level that could be faster than the court case. Fingers crossed!

The 2025 Grand Raffle has TONS of prizes this year! You do not need to be present to win. To buy raffle tickets now call (844) 757-1990 and leave a message and we will call you back and take the order.

If you like the work PLP does, please help PLP help you, and join or renew today to know how to effectively and professionally counter the agencies while making Prospecting, Mining and Reclamation Great Again!

Supporting PLP’s Grand Raffle also helps us continue to fight for your rights.  A book of 12 tickets is STILL only $10!  We have a lot of great high value prizes, including amazing quartz-gold specimens!  You can’t win if you don’t enter! Tickets are available to purchase by phone for the 2025 Grand Raffle Drawing. The growing list of the prizes for the 2025 Grand Raffle is published on our PLP Facebook site.  You can call our toll-free number (844)-PLP-1990 which is (844) 757-1990 or Mail a Check (to the address below) and specify the number of ticket books you wish to have mailed to you.  The drawing date and location is October 11^th at the 2025 Duisenberg, California PLP Fallfest event.

Your PLP volunteer Board of Directors… are working hard for you!

The original. No compromise.  Standing 35 years strong for Multiple Use on Public Land “RIGHTS”!

P.S. PLP NEEDS: We need gold for PLP gold bags to sell and use as prizes- dust, pickers and nuggets. If you would like to donate, we will give you a tax-deductible receipt for the full retail value. This is one of the ways we raise money to stay active protect your rights to access public lands. Contact us via email or phone at info@publiclandsforthepeople.org or on our toll-free number (844)-PLP-1990 which is (844) 757-1990.