Fellow Prospectors & Treasure Seekers,

American Prospector Treasure Seeker, a proud supporter of the Public Lands for the People (PLP), is reaching out to GPAA chapter and independent clubs across the country and asking that we help the PLP by asking our members for their support.  I suspect that most members are aware of who the PLP is, however re-iterating their existence and importance to our nation wide community of outdoor adventurers will be an asset to the PLP and therefore a tremendous help to the mining, prospecting and outdoor way of life.  If you have the time, and are willing, we ask that you forward this email to your chapter members and urge their involvement and support to be given to the PLP.  Considering that the PLPs main purpose is to keep public and private lands open to prospecting, mining, and outdoor recreation for now and future generations, this pertains to all of us.

Some consider mining and prospecting to be noisy, polluting, and the source of conflicts and because of this they want us in smaller and smaller areas with fewer opportunities to access the public lands. The PLP stands up for us, those of us who enjoy the outdoors and our adventurous activities. They could use our support as a community (a nation wide community) of prospectors, hunters, fisherman, off roaders, adventurers, etc.

Joining the PLP would help them with their fights for our rights to these public lands. We urge your support to be given to the PLP in any way that you can. Although membership donations will help significantly, remember keeping our outdoor areas clean is a simple, yet very important, help to our cause. Keeping our own trash picked up or volunteering to pick up trash left behind by others will "Help Our Trees Grow Old While We Prospect For Gold"!

There are many forums and public sites available on the internet these days, it's important that we keep our comments posted on these forums, blogs, etc. on a positive level. You may or may not realize it, however, individuals or agencies that fight against our rights to our public lands may, and do, use the negative and outraged posts against "us" while making their case(s). We need to "kill them with kindness" and show the positive things we are doing and how keeping the lands open to the public is important for this generation and the many generations to come.

Writing a personalized letter explaining your concerns, stating your opinions and expressing how positive the experiences are that you and your family share in the outdoors and the effect that an issue may have on your family and the community is another source of help that we can provide to the PLP as they fight to stand up for us and our rights. One hand written letter has equal, even greater, value than 100 signatures on a petition.

An Interview with Jerry Hobbs, Founder of the PLP:www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Nd8NbNxrQ

Who the PLP is: plp1.org/aboutuswhoweare.html

Join the PLP: plp1.org/joindonate.html

There are multiple ways that we can team up to be a positive reflection for the way of life that we enjoy, the outdoors. Two local GPAA clubs in Southern California teamed up in November of 2010 to help a local history center recover treasures from the towns first days and years of existence. Temecula Valley Prospectors & Treasure Seekers of San Diego County metal detect the grounds of what was the "hub" of Temecula between the 1850s and 1860s. All items found were donated to the History Center .Article written by the GPAA:www.goldprospectors.org/Communication/ArticlesandInformation/tabid/153/EntryId/242/Metal-detectorists-dig-in-to-find-artifacts.aspx