The Redundant Thread

[olyman]

View attachment 406182 View attachment 406181 View attachment 406180 Ya, Atlin is great little town.
Here's a cabin in Atlin that a bear got into. I helped clean it up. The owner had too much bulk food inside.

EEEEEK!!!!!! not one ounce of fun cleaning that mess up!!!!!!!!!!

 

[olyman]

View attachment 406179 Just found the pic of Shirley at her cabin.

now,,you going to tell us about Shirley???

 

[Four Paws]

They definitely tear up the landscape. The thing to understand is that there were generally NO remediation efforts taken when these old dredges were in operation. They dug and displaced the river bed...they didn't fill in the hole they dug, they piled tailings to the side which allowed them to work another cut up the river...then another and another, until they were out of claim. The tailings are the visible reminder. The invisible damage is the mercury which leached from the amalgam plates into the watershed. Mercury recovery was crude in the early days.

I am no green weenie. I support mining and manufacturing and also remediation efforts. Corporate greed (private interest or shareholder) should not leave disaster in its wake. Pay a fair price for our natural resources and return the landscape to its former majesty for future generations to enjoy.

These dredges are a testament to our ingenuity and a colorful past. Like all things in life with experience comes wisdom.

This dredge is in my backyard. I enjoy visiting and sharing the gold mining history with my kids. The shovel was used by the cat-skinner to set cable.

 

[Four Paws]

 

[pioneerguy600]

View attachment 406182 View attachment 406181 View attachment 406180 Ya, Atlin is great little town.
Here's a cabin in Atlin that a bear got into. I helped clean it up. The owner had too much bulk food inside.

I pegged that as a bear job before I scrolled all the way down to read your post. I can tell you about many such incidents that happened to our back country camps...LOL

 

[Gypo Logger]

Atlin

 

[Gypo Logger]

now,,you going to tell us about Shirley???

Ya, Shirley is the last inhabitant living on Discovery claim 10 miles from Atlin, just to the right centre of this old pic.

 

[pioneerguy600]

 

[Gypo Logger]

The sign post forest in Watson Lake Yukon started by a lonely US hiway worker while building the Alaska hwy in 1945.

 

[pioneerguy600]

I left my sign there from the trip.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Permafrost forest,

 

[Gypo Logger]

A couple of Yukon pics I didn't take.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

reminds of colorado in ways gypo.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Doggaurding gold

 

[Deleted member 83629]

who want to pet the cute puppy

 

[Gypo Logger]

who want to pet the cute puppy

It's funny how most dogs don't have a mean bone in their body. They just want attention and treats.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

you stirred some memory's of my dog she always wanted treats or attention
shame she got poisoned by someone with antifreeze she wouldn't hurt a fly
just a chocolate lab with a big heart.

 

[Gypo Logger]

you stirred some memory's of my dog she always wanted treats or attention
shame she got poisoned by someone with antifreeze she wouldn't hurt a fly
just a chocolate lab with a big heart.

That's sad. I lost a few dogs too, but I have two of them now that watch me like a hawk.

 

[Gypo Logger]

After twenty years he still greaves. Mr Bojangles.

 

[Cedar Row]

They definitely tear up the landscape. The thing to understand is that there were generally NO remediation efforts taken when these old dredges were in operation. They dug and displaced the river bed...they didn't fill in the hole they dug, they piled tailings to the side which allowed them to work another cut up the river...then another and another, until they were out of claim. The tailings are the visible reminder. The invisible damage is the mercury which leached from the amalgam plates into the watershed. Mercury recovery was crude in the early days.

I am no green weenie. I support mining and manufacturing and also remediation efforts. Corporate greed (private interest or shareholder) should not leave disaster in its wake. Pay a fair price for our natural resources and return the landscape to its former majesty for future generations to enjoy.

These dredges are a testament to our ingenuity and a colorful past. Like all things in life with experience comes wisdom.

This dredge is in my backyard. I enjoy visiting and sharing the gold mining history with my kids. The shovel was used by the cat-skinner to set cable.

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Very well put.